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Senior Solution Architect

Lloyds Banking Group • Edinburgh, UK • 5d ago

JOB TITLE:Senior Solution Architect

LOCATION(S):Edinburgh

HOURS: Full time

WORKING PATTERN:Hybrid, 40% (or two days) inthe above office location

About this opportunity

As part of the RetirementLab,you’llhelp develop flexible, future-focused core capabilities and work directly with the Technology and Business Teamsto define our Target Solution Architecture!

As a Solution Architect, the position includes acting as a technology evangelist, blending customer needs with modern, robust technologies to ensure our services are scalable and impactful. If you’re passionate about making a meaningful difference, this is your chance to help transform retirement for millions. You will join a collaborative, purposeful environment and set new standards for customer experience while leaving a lasting legacy.

Key responsibilities:

Deliver a prescribed budget for own area of the organisation and/or conducts complex analyses on budget progress in other areas while working within established systems.
Identify shortcomings in compliance processes, systems, and procedures within the assigned unit or field. Recommend and implement improvements to business practices. Develop and deliver projects or workstreams within the organisation’s transition initiatives, under the mentorship of senior colleagues.
Develop capabilities by pursuing and investing in personal development opportunities and develops the capabilities of direct reports by working within existing development framework; provides specialised training or coaching in area of expertise to others throughout the organisation.
Analyses and evaluates the feasibility/relevance of proposals for complex products/services, then develops and amends as necessary with guidance from senior colleagues and/or supervises activities performed by a product development/specialist team.
Develops and/or delivers elements of a planning system with mentorship from senior colleagues.

About us

If you think all banks are the same,you’dbe wrong.We’rean innovative, fast-changing businessthat’sshaping finance as a force for good. A bankthat’sempowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose.

Whatyou’llneed

Story-telling skills to describe our Target Architecture and get real agreement to achieve it.
The practical experiencerequiredto define the technology patterns,standardsand practices we will use to guide our organisation.
Proven experience in decomposing legacy monolithic systems into modern, scalable microservices architectures.
The personality and relationship-building skills to energise our product and engineering communities.
The knowledge to be able to talk to and understand our customers, reaching solutions that meet their needs.
Experience gaining approval for designs and solutions via formal governance.

And any experience of these would bereally useful

Practical experience of designing and building cloud-based platforms at scale. You will know and understand the benefits and trade-offs of the various approaches to building out contemporary cloud-ready and cloud-native platforms.
Understand the importance and ability to design and promote reusable architecture patterns and components to drive consistency, scalability, and efficiency across solutions.
Strong understanding of API integration patterns and security patterns.
Understanding of domain driven design architectures – understanding where these are applicable and supporting implementation.
Exposure to Retirement/Pension products.
A working knowledge of contemporary engineering practicesas well as Agile delivery methodologies.

About working for us

Our focus is to ensurewe'reinclusive 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,identityor 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.

Andit’swhy we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.

We’redisability confident. So, ifyou’dlike 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’sinteresting and makes a difference to millions of people?Join our journey.

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