Join us as a Lead Enterprise Architect
- We’ll look to you to define the strategic target architecture and roadmap, aligning them with business strategy and objectives
- You'll be facilitating collaborative architecture decision making, partnering and engaging with key business and digital leaders to continually evolve the bank’s long term architectural direction
- With valuable exposure, you’ll cultivate strong relationships and proactively engage with key stakeholders, including business and technology leaders, vendors and partners, and industry thought leaders
- We're offering this role at director level
As a Lead Enterprise Architect, you’ll architect customer centric, high performance, secure, robust and sustainable end to end digital products, solutions, and services that deliver business value while aligning to the bank’s strategic target architecture.
You’ll be actively contributing to the growth of architecting capability and the community across the bank through thought leadership, knowledge sharing, contributing to the community of practice, and building capability in others through coaching, mentoring and teaching.
As well as this, you’ll be:
- Leading architecture and design reviews of solution architectures within delivery programmes of high architectural significance or risk
- Inspecting and verifying that proposed designs meet business needs, and are compliant with Architecture Council approved architecture principles, standards, and patterns
- Driving technology innovation by identifying and evaluating emerging technologies and their potential impact on the bank
- Actively shaping and contributing to strategic investment programmes, identifying opportunities for simplification or reuse, and guiding programme design to build and adopt the key architecture enablers
- Promoting a DevOps mindset by working as part of development teams to embed architecture guidance in CI/CD pipelines
- Continuously researching and evaluating emerging technologies, architecture patterns, and industry best practices to identify threats to current architecture and opportunities for innovation and competitive advantage
To succeed in this role, you’ll need expert knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks, modern technologies such as Cloud, microservices and AI, agile architecture and DevOps practices, including a deep understanding of business use cases and emerging trends that drive organisational success.
You’ll bring extensive experience of defining and developing strategic target architectures that align with organisational objectives. This will include experience of engaging with partners across the organisation to define architectures that deliver tangible business outcomes.
You’ll also demonstrate:
- Experience of leading collaborative decision-making processes, partnering with senior business and technology colleagues to articulate and evolve architectural direction
- Experience of identifying and advocating for strategic investment opportunities that enhance the organisation's architecture goals
- The proven ability to craft compelling business cases and influence senior stakeholders to secure investment for architecture initiatives
- Extensive experience of overseeing and assuring the quality of architecture designs, with a focus on risk management and governance
- Experience of conducting comprehensive architecture and design reviews to validate that solutions meet business needs and comply with architecture standards
- A proven track record of fostering a culture of architectural excellence through mentorship and knowledge sharing
Hours
45Job Posting Closing Date:
29/09/2026Skills Required
- Expert knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks
- Deep understanding of cloud, microservices, artificial intelligence, agile architecture, and DevOps practices
- Extensive experience defining and developing strategic target architectures aligned with organizational objectives
- Experience partnering with senior business and technology stakeholders to define business-focused architectures
- Experience leading collaborative architecture decision-making processes
- Experience identifying and advocating for strategic architecture investment opportunities
- Proven ability to develop business cases and influence senior stakeholders to secure investment
- Extensive experience overseeing and assuring architecture design quality, risk management, and governance
- Experience conducting architecture and design reviews against business needs, standards, and principles
- Proven track record of mentoring, coaching, teaching, and fostering architectural excellence
NatWest Group Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Flexible Benefits — A flexible ValueAccount structure with pension and benefit funding allows tailoring of health, protection, lifestyle, and savings options, with unused amounts typically paid as cash. This flexibility supports personalisation of coverage, particularly in Great Britain where the framework is most detailed.
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Retirement Support — Employer-funded pension contributions are provided on top of salary in Great Britain, alongside automatic retirement enrollment and share/save programs. This creates structured long‑term wealth support as part of total reward.
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Parental & Family Support — UK policies outline extended maternity, adoption and equal partner leave on full pay with a phased return, plus paid neonatal care leave. These provisions are positioned as market‑leading and complement broader flexibility resources.
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