Business Unit:  Chief Technology Office (CTO), COO
Salary range: £72,000 - £91k per annum DOE
Location:  UK Hybrid with travel to Newcastle and Glasgow Hub when required
Contract type: Permanent

Live to inspire change. Live a life more Virgin. 

Our Team

The Enterprise Architecture function is a ‘horizontal’ function which cuts across all areas with the objective to transform and set the technology direction for the bank. Feel free to click on the Link to learn more about the team - careers.virginmoney.com/en/meetCTO

Enterprise Architecture:

• Provide technology thought leadership by setting clear direction through the technology strategy, enterprise and domain principles, reference architectures and architectural contracts.
• Enable agility by right-sizing governance with a focus on scalable, secure & resilient solutions which are aligned to the bank’s strategic principles.
• Drive innovation, simplification & growth to support VM’s ambitions by enabling key architectural building blocks and supporting simplification of the technology estate, with a focus on the delivery of exceptional customer and colleague experiences.
• Empower colleagues to make architectural decisions through coherent, reusable reference materials, early engagement, and ongoing collaboration
• We're looking for a Digital Enterprise Architect to drive and embed the strategic architecture for the Bank.

What you’ll be doing

• Supporting the development of transformational plans that articulate the sequence and timing of activities required to deliver on the strategic priorities of the business
• Creating domain strategies, roadmaps, reference architectures, principles and contracts to build a vision of our future.
• Investigating and developing high quality IT architecture options illustrating their relative merits and advantages
• Advising the change portfolio on architectural direction, ensuring changes have a clear target architecture, principles/guardrails and regular checkpoints to ensure adherence to the technology strategy
• Interacting with, and influencing, programme stakeholders to ensure changes are governed appropriately and follow the agreed processes
• Leading the innovation and adoption of new technologies, whilst ensuring technology products/services are selected appropriately and in line with strategic principles
• Providing advice and guidance on technology strategy, architectural accelerators, market opportunities, governance and continuous improvements to drive better, more informed decision making

We need you to have

• A proven ability to lead, collaborate and influence across business and technology domains, setting a clear vision of the technology direction and guidelines to empower colleagues to create brilliant outcomes.
• Communication and influencing skills, at all levels, with the ability to explain complex concepts to non-experts
• Strong working knowledge of shaping and creating investment options to achieve a strategic vision
• Proven experience within a senior architecture role of producing architectural artifacts (strategies, roadmaps, principles and reference architectures).
• Experience with IT and business architecture best practices and goals, including architectural governance.
• Knowledge of at least three of the following technical capabilities:
• Digital customer channels (Mobile, web, chat, voice/CTI)
• Microservice, API & Event-Based architecture and integration
• Customer Identity and Access Management
• Public cloud technologies including hosting, containerisation and networking architectures

It’s a bonus if you have but not essential

• An understanding of financial services organisations
• Some insight or experience of architectural principles and frameworks e.g TOGAF/SABSA/SAFe

Red Hot Rewards

• Generous holidays - 38.5 days annual leave (including bank holidays and prorated if part-time)​ plus the option to buy more.
• Up to five extra paid well-being days per year​. 
• 20 weeks paid, gender-neutral family leave (52 weeks in total) for expectant parents and those looking to adopt. 
• Market-leading pension.
• Free private medical cover, income protection and life assurance.
• Flexible benefits include Cycle to Work, wellness and health assessments, and critical illness. 

And there's no waiting around, you'll enjoy these benefits from day one.

Feeling insatiably curious about this role? If we’re lucky to receive a lot of interest, we may close the advert early and would hate you to miss out. 

We're all about helping you Live a Life More Virgin, so happy to talk flexible working with you.

Say hello to Virgin Money
We’re making great strides towards achieving our ambition of becoming the UK’s best digital bank.  As a full-service digital bank with a heritage stretching back over 180 years, we`re a workforce to be reckoned with.  We're putting the full power of our experience behind disruptive ideas that reinvent the role a bank plays in people's lives. We're customer obsessed and work tirelessly to create positive experiences for our millions of customers and deliver on our purpose, ‘Making You Happier About Money.’ Our customer centric culture means that we're able to do banking differently and by innovating and working together we can make a real difference. Join us and Live a Life More Virgin that empowers you with choice and flexibility in how you work.

Be yourself at Virgin Money
Our purpose is to make people happier about money, this means seeing and feeling the world as our customers do by creating a workforce that reflects the rich diversity of our customers and communities.  We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture where colleagues feel safe and inspired to contribute, speak up and be heard.  

As a Disability Confident Leader, we're committed to removing any obstacles to inclusion.  If you need any reasonable adjustments or support making your application, contact our Talent Acquisition team careers@virginmoney.com

Now the legal bit
Living A Life More Virgin allows our colleagues to be based anywhere in the UK (if the role allows it), but we'll need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK.

If you're successful in securing a role with us, there are some checks you need to complete before starting. These include credit and criminal record checks and three years' worth of satisfactory references. If the role is part of the Senior Manager Regime and Certification Regime, it requires enhanced pre-employment checks – we'll ask for six years of regulatory references, and once in the role, you'll be subject to periodic employment checks. 

Advert close date is Friday 4th April