JOB TITLE: Lead Solutions Architect
SALARY: £92,701 - £109,060
LOCATION: Edinburgh
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our office location.
About this Opportunity
As Lead Solutions Architect, you will partner with Technology and Business teams in the Customer Waterfront lab to define Target Solution Architecture for Direct-to-Consumer digital channels. This role includes driving a scalable, AI-powered customer experience and acting as a technology evangelist within the organisation.
The Customer Waterfront lab operates across Edinburgh, Dundee, and Hyderabad, where you will provide technical leadership to 10 feature teams, senior leaders, and junior solution architects as we evolve our digital platforms (mobile, web, Internet Banking).
We are developing a modern, services-driven architecture to support digitisation, improve customer journeys, achieve business outcomes, and meet strategic goals. Simplifying our technology and data landscape is essential, alongside delivering adaptable core platform capabilities for all customers.
Why Lloyds Banking Group
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
- Experience leading complex architectural change involving multiple systems evolving together
- Extensive knowledge of web and API architecture patterns including microservices, CQRS and publish-subscribe
- Experience designing solutions for security, reliability and scale
- Security patterns such as authentication/single-sign-on (e.g. OAuth) as well as encryption both in-transit and at-rest
- Storytelling ability to communicate Target Architecture and gain support
- Strong personality and relationship-building to engage product and engineering teams
- Practical experience in defining technology patterns, standards, and practices for the organisation
- Customer insight to understand needs and deliver suitable solutions
And any experience of these would be useful
- Practical experience of designing and building cloud-based platforms at scale (GCP - preferred, Azure or AWS)
- Understanding of domain driven design architectures and building event-driven systems
- Experience working in Digital channels with Web and Mobile frameworks
- Experience owning the architectural strategy for a domain or system
- Leading & managing other architects
- Ability to prototype innovations and novel solutions using any tech stack
- Content management frameworks and tool
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
Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more.
