Cloud Solution Architect

End Date

Tuesday 18 March 2025

Salary Range

£81,999 - £91,110

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

Flexible Working Options

Hybrid Working, Job Share

Job Description Summary

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Job Description

JOB TITLE: Cloud Solution Architect

SALARY: £81,999 – £91,110 for London and £70,929 - £78,810 outside London

LOCATION(S): London, Manchester, Halifax or Leeds

HOURS: Full time

WORKING PATTERN: At least two days per week (or 40% of your time) at one of our offices listed above.

About this opportunity

The Cloud Platform team is embarking on a journey to develop the next-generation technical Cloud and on-premises platform for Lloyds Banking Group, which will be central to one of the UK's largest financial service transformations.

We are looking for an experienced and innovative Cloud Architect to play a pivotal role in defining the technical direction of our platform. The candidate will collaborate with Platform Architects, Enterprise Architects, Cloud Product Owners, and platform engineering teams. Responsibilities include architecting complex systems and resolving challenging issues to support Lloyds Banking Group's multi-cloud adoption strategy.

Day to day, you'll be:

• Consulting with technical and non-technical stakeholders to identify business requirements and opportunities and then build solution designs, guiding them through the full engineering product lifecycle

• Cultivating and nurturing relationships through confident, engaging, and professional high-impact interactions.

• Leading technical discussions with collaborators, internal, external, and third party across various levels of technical expertise, including Senior Management and other Subject Matter Experts.

• Designing and integrating IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS solutions across Azure, Google Cloud Platform and on-premises platforms.

• Writing and contributing to platform solutions design, architectural patterns, blueprints, standards, policies, designs and other such architectural artefacts.

• Optimising cloud infrastructure performance for efficiency and cost-effectiveness, utilising FinOps processes.

• Utilising automation tools for streamlining processes.

• Utilising visibility/observability solutions. e.g., Platform Monitoring, User Experience Monitoring, Application Performance Monitoring, Application Resource Monitoring,

• Collaborating in a digitally led, inclusive, agile and creative work environment.

• Conducting Proofs of Concept (PoCs) to gain a deeper understanding of products, and to assist in their design and review

• Provide education and mentorship covering multiple technical topics to support different teams on those topics, and drive upskilling

Skills you’ll need

• Significant experience working as a Solution Architect, with hands-on experience with major cloud platforms such as Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure.

• In-depth experience in designing and integrating IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS solutions across Azure and Google Cloud Platform.

• Experience with container environments and container orchestration tools. E.g., Docker, Kubernetes (GKE, AKS, OpenShift)

• Proficiency in Data Centre virtualization platforms, Compute, SAN, Storage, Data Protection and Virtualization.

• A good understanding of cloud networking concepts, including VPCs, Direct Connect/Expressroute, VPNs, subnets, firewalls and cloud native security, and load balancers.

• Confirmed experience in delivering high-quality scalable architecture solutions, encompassing critical aspects such as backups, high availability, and disaster recovery.

• Knowledge and/or experience with DevOps practices. DevOps methodologies, DevOps tools, Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering.

• Hands-on experience with agile architecture at scale at all levels

• Deploying and running Infrastructure as Code - Terraform, Ansible, Go, Python, PowerShell, GitOps, Policy as Code, ARM.

• Managing operating systems, including Linux and Windows.

In addition, any experience of these would be useful:

• Certified in a cloud platform such as Azure and Google Cloud Platform

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 performance-related bonus

• 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

Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.

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.