Solution Architect Full Time

Lloyds Banking Group

Solution Architect

Lloyds Banking Group

London – We’re happy with home working the majority of the time, however you’ll need to be in office at least 1 day per week under your own cost.

Salary & Benefits: £81,928 to £102,410 per annum (location dependent), plus annual personal bonus, 15% employer pension contribution, 4% flexible cash pot, private medical insurance, 30 days holiday plus bank holidays.

We also offer flexible working hours, agile working practices flexibility to suit your lifestyle and ensure a good work-life balance.

Who are Lloyds Banking Group and where does this role sit?

We’re rapidly transforming into a digitally-led business on a massive scale in order to better serve our customers.

A great opportunity has arisen within the Consumer Servicing Value Stream for a Lead Solution Architect.

Within Consumer Servicing we’re undertaking a series of colleague and customer journeys, aimed at improving the way we do business with our clients throughout the UK, providing better value to our relationships and increasing the productivity of our colleagues, thereby Helping Britain Prosper.

These journeys are being undertaken within a fast-moving, exciting Lab construct, whereby we land change iteratively and at pace through Agile working practices. The pace of change, innovative practices and the flexibility that this gives us, makes this a great team to join.

What will I focus on in this role?

The Solution Architect is vital in ensuring the products we deliver are fit for purpose and meet the quality and standards that our customers expect. You’ll realise business value by delivering reliable, scalable and working software to production. Ensuring platforms and services are built consistent with industry standard methodology and standards, and be responsible for the design and solutions for the domain application stack, understanding application integration and E2E flow, and are comfortable communicating this at all levels, from senior partners down to root-cause analysis with developers.

Specific activities which you’ll be responsible for include things like;

• Own the design of solutions for large projects and programmes throughout the entire project lifecycle
• Through expert engineering and architectural skills translate high level business requirements into technology architectures that align to the strategic architecture.
• Direct and control specialist teams to undertake the delivery of comprehensive designs.
• Lead senior business partners to secure strong engagement for the solution and ensure that delivery aligns to longer term roadmaps.
• Take designs through governance processes with meaningful architectural artefacts and ensure the required engineering and architecture cohorts are engaged as required throughout the design phase
• Coach and lead other engineers and build a strong team culture through peer-to-peer teamwork and development

What do we need to see from applicants?

• Strong Software Engineering and Architecture background
• Experience of working in Web/Mobile programmes
• Knowledge of agile development practices with a history of technical leadership.
• Experience across the entire solutions development life-cycle from inception, through build to production
• You’ll appreciate and acknowledge the impact of system design decisions on scalability, resilience and supportability.
• Experience of API design and architecture patterns, messaging technologies (Kafka, MQ)
• Exposure to modern application frameworks (Springboot Java etc)

What else would be handy?

• Knowledge of delivery of microservices to production
• Line Management experience
• Exposure to Systems Thinking
• Exposure to Docker and container orchestration tools e.g. Kubernetes
• Plus knowledge in one or more of the following: API Economy, Big Data, Cloud/Open Source, Automation/Robotics & Blockchain

What can I expect in Return?

We’re dedicated to giving you opportunities and support to develop you both professionally and personally to optimise your potential!

As a new colleague to the team, you’ll join us on our journey to build a 21st century bank that reflects modern Britain and craft an inclusive culture where all colleagues feel encouraged and valued.

We’re committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve, and to building an inclusive environment where all our colleagues can be themselves and succeed on merit. We support the principles of agile working and equal opportunity and are happy to consider flexible working arrangements.

Together we’ll make it possible!