Senior Solutions Architect

End Date

Tuesday 30 April 2024

Salary Range

£98,685 - £116,100

We support flexible working – click here for more information on flexible working options

Flexible Working Options

Hybrid Working, Job Share

Job Description Summary

• Collaborating with Product Owners, Platform Leads, Enterprise Architects & Engineers to create the Architectural runway for our Platform teams. Once baselined, our Solution Architects continuously invest in maintaining the Architecture runway underpinning our Platform teams.
• Partner with Enterprise Architecture & service providers to elaborate on solutions, their interfaces and validating technology assumptions, evaluating implementation alternatives and software lifecycle risks, assumptions, issues & dependencies.
• Providing analysis of options and deliver end-to-end solution designs using relevant architectural building blocks as well as producing designs for features that enable frequent incremental customer value delivery.
• Promoting adaptive design practises to drive collaboration across Platform teams centring on a common vision with continuous feedback.
• Owning the technical design risks or issues and driving resolution through architectural or agile practises.
• Participating in Agile ceremonies, elicit requirements, shape & validate designs or prototypes that deliver customer outcomes that align to our target architecture.
• Leveraging industry best practise, frameworks, standards & policies in creating opportunities & value for our customers.
• Contributing to the financial investment process to obtain funding for key solution opportunities.
• Setting guiding principles and solution success criteria for platform capability or feature development across our Platforms.
• Providing oversight & foster built in quality, decoupled & modernised architectures.
• Supporting Product Owners & Platform Leads in identifying, articulating and impact assessing software & infrastructure currency risks or issues, offering options & recommendations on action planning & continuously evergreening solutions/systems within the Platform.
• Supporting Product Owners & Platform Leads on the technical aspect of activities linked with Platform financial estimation, spend or risk management processes in line with the platform roadmap.
• As a Senior Solution Architect, you will also hold overall responsibility for leading and directing a diverse workforce to achieve the business strategy, Inspiring people, achieving their full commitment to do the extraordinary.

Job Description

Job Title:  Senior Solution Architect              
Location: London

Salary: £100,657 - £118,420
Hours:  Full time
Working Pattern : Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in office.

About us

We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we’re shaping finance for good. We’re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you!

About this opportunity

In the Economic Crime Prevention (ECP) Platform, our mission is to reduce harm to our communities by enhancing the Group's capability to prevent, detect and respond to economic crime. The Platform sits within Consumer Relationships and plays a critical role in providing services across the whole Group.

What you’ll do

As a Senior Solution Architect, you'll also hold overall responsibility for leading and directing a diverse workforce to achieve the business strategy, Inspiring people, achieving their full commitment to do the extraordinary.

• Collaborating with Product Owners, Platform Leads, Enterprise Architects & Engineers to create the Architectural runway for our Platform teams.

• Providing analysis of options and deliver end-to-end solution designs using relevant architectural building blocks as well as producing designs for features that enable frequent incremental customer value delivery.

• Promoting adaptive design practises to drive collaboration across Platform teams centring on a common vision with continuous feedback.

• Owning the technical design risks or issues and driving resolution through architectural or agile practises.

• Setting guiding principles and solution success criteria for platform capability or feature development across our Platforms.

• Providing oversight & foster built in quality, decoupled & modernised architectures.

• Makes a significant improvement on short-term or long-term business performance by recommending authoritative technical and/or professional solutions.

• Develops innovative solutions by integrating and analysing complex and diverse information sources.

• Manages a significant portion of the organisation's risk management and/or control process, contributing to the development and implementation of risk management policies and procedures.

• Initiates, formulates and implements new business practices for own discipline, while managing the development and/or delivery of a significant element of the organisation's change management programme.

• Takes responsibility for implementing formal development frameworks for a substantial department.

What you’ll need

• Strong experience of solution design, security & resilience patterns 

• Strong knowledge of microservices, containerisation, cloud native and event-driven design concepts 

• Strong understanding of API standards, security and gateway patterns 

• Strong understanding of data technologies – SQL/NoSQL, Big Data 

• Knowledge of cloud architecture, in particular GCP  

• Knowledge of monolith to microservice patterns 

• Strong experience & knowledge of some key LBG development technologies (e.g. JavaScript, Java Spring Boot, Python)

• Excellent Stakeholder and Relationship management skills.

• Strong ability to influence customers at a senior level across job families

• Strong understanding of building applications through containerised microservices-based architectures, with a working-to-strong understanding of cloud methodologies

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in/all its forms.

We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.

And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.

We’re disability confident. So, if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%.

• An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance.

• Share schemes including free shares.

• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping.

• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top.

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies.

Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more .

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks.  We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person. 

We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.