End Date
Monday 09 October 2023
Salary Range
£66,861 - £74,290
Agile Working Options
Hybrid Working
Job Description Summary
We’re creating exciting opportunities within the Working Capital Lab to improve customer experiences for our Commercial Banking clients for years to come.
With our business evolving to more modern and flexible ways of working, we want driven, dynamic and innovative individuals to join us on this journey. Working alongside our partners in the Commercial Bank will put you at the heart of the digitisation agenda for both clients and colleagues.
We’re looking for someone who is passionate, inspiring and customer-obsessed, ensuring that the team are always focused on the priorities that will deliver the best outcomes for our customers and colleagues.
We're hugely proud of the relationships we hold with our clients and key partners as trusted delivery providers. This is key to our success.
Our culture brings together experienced, hardworking, people from a diverse group of backgrounds that enjoy a collaborative and innovative environment that supports flexible and agile working, always learning and improving ourselves and sharing knowledge.
Job Description
Job Title: Solution Architect
Salary: £66,861 to £ 74,290
Location: Edinburgh
Hours: Full time
Working Pattern: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week or 40% of our time in at one of our office sites.
About this Opportunity
Lloyds Banking Group is the UK’s biggest Retail, Digital and Mobile bank with over 30 million customers and a big responsibility to help Britain Prosper. We’re in the middle of a £3bn investment into our People, Platforms and Data as part of our strategy to build the Bank of the Future and grow sustainably.
This is a time of growth for the platform. We're passionate about building a Diverse, collaborative, empowered and skilled team. We're on the journey to simplify and modernise our tech stack and innovate using new technologies.
About the role
As a Solution Architect within the lab you would have a responsibility for shaping the strategic roadmap for the lab and our application / infrastructure estate. Working alongside our Enterprise Architects, Lead Solution Architect and Engineers you’ll also engage in hands on design activity for key initiatives and teams, ensuring the right solutions are put in place to modernise and future proof our estate.
As well as guiding and communicating our enterprise Vision through Solution Design, you'll play a significant part in keeping our customers safe, through smart, pragmatic design choices that can be built, modified, and operated in a fast-paced agile environment. Your contribution will be instrumental to our strategy of simplifying, modernising, and de-risking the Working Capital technology landscape, enabling the Bank of the Future and ultimately driving value for customers and shareholders. This is a key role at the financial heart of LBG, underpinning the long-term sustainability and integrity of the organisation.
Encouraging the right culture is key and you’ll embrace a “Fail Fast, Learn Faster” approach. Experimenting new ways of engineering and adopting a test and learn approach, with a focus on learning and continuous improvement.
What you will need:
Experience designing innovative solutions in an increasingly digital world - understanding how modern software applications are built and delivered is key.
Experience of designing solutions for demanding Business colleagues, demonstrating diligence, insight and willingness to challenge - this leadership role will provide direction for our Lab architects and engineers, blending domain knowledge, deep technical expertise, and coaching cross-disciplinary feature teams to deliver high quality maintainable software.
Good knowledge of infrastructure and security architecture practices and concerns.
Have played an active part in architecture and design governance.
Excellent communication skills to effectively translate sophisticated concepts into easily understandable language supported by good social skills to lead groups and negotiate and build consensus.
Proven track record of assessing business needs and translating them into relevant solutions.
Experience in delivering change involving 3rd parties, collaborating and working together to achieve a shared goal.
Ideally you’ll have previous career experience in Software Engineering however this is not essential.
Sound understanding of Cloud methodologies and experience designing applications through containerised microservices-based architectures.
TOGAF or equivalent qualification / experience.
Experience of sophisticated financial services system integrations involving risk, finance and payments data would be helpful.
About working for us
Our focus is to ensure that 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 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
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.