Senior Solutions Architect

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JOB TITLE:   Senior Solutions Architect

SALARY:  £92,701 - £109,060

LOCATIONS: Leeds or Edinburgh

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) at either the Leeds or Edinburgh office

About this opportunity

An excellent opportunity for a Senior Solutions Architect to join our innovative Stockbroking lab within the Insurance, Pensions, and Investments division. In this role, you will have the unique opportunity to shape the future of online trading by designing and implementing a streamlined, customer and colleague-focused platform that will redefine how our customers invest. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to deliver cutting-edge solutions that enhance our digital presence and improve customer engagement.

Here's where you'll make a difference:

• Lead the design and development of scalable, robust, and secure architecture solutions for the new digital stockbroking platform.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, Platform Leads, Enterprise Architects, and Engineers to create and maintain the architectural runway for our platform teams.
• Partner with Enterprise Architecture and service providers to elaborate on solutions, validate technology assumptions, and evaluate implementation alternatives.
• Ensure alignment of architectural solutions with business goals and technology strategy.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to development teams throughout the project lifecycle.
• Conduct architectural reviews and ensure adherence to best practices and standards.
• Identify and mitigate technical risks and issues.
• Stay updated with emerging technologies and industry trends to drive innovation.

About us

If you think all banks are the same, you’d be wrong. We’re an innovative, fast-changing business that’s shaping finance as a force for good. A bank that’s empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose.

What you’ll need

• Designing and implementing complex, large-scale architecture solutions.
• Common enterprise integration patterns
• Working with cloud platforms (GCP preferred).
• Microservices, event-based architecture and API design.
• Agile methodologies and DevOps practices.
• Designing to meet complex security principles and practices.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Containerisation and orchestration tools e.g. Docker, Kubernetes etc.
• Working in a regulated environment and designing to meet compliance requirements.

And any experience of these would be really useful

• Domain driven design principles and patterns
• Delivering software solutions in financial services (particularly trading/investments or wealth)
• Delivering large scale data migrations (500k+ customers)
• Enterprise architecture frameworks e.g. TOGAF.

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

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.