End Date
Wednesday 03 December 2025Salary Range
£104,686 - £123,160We support flexible working – click here for more information on flexible working options
Flexible Working Options
Flexibility in when hours are worked, Hybrid Working, Job ShareJob Description Summary
The Senior Solution Architect orchestrates complex solution architectures to achieve key outcomes, aligning with our technology strategy. They enable teams to deliver efficiently by shaping the solution architecture for our lab and collaborating with Product Owners, engineering teams, and Enterprise Architects.Job Description
TITLE: Senior Solution Architect
SALARY: £104,686 - £123,160
LOCATION: London
HOURS: Full time - 35 hours per week
WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in an office site
We're on a mission to build the bank of the future, and we need your help to do it.
We're redefining what a bank is from the inside out. Our technology and our culture are changing to craft a true engineering-led organisation.
Become part of our diverse team, and you'll experience a rare opportunity to make a difference to the lives of millions through our brands like Halifax, Bank of Scotland, Lloyds, and Scottish Widows (among others).
Our flat teams will encourage and empower you to make decisions, build positive relationships, and deliver a meaningful difference to our customers, colleagues, and communities.
Our mentors will nurture your talent and encourage you to further develop yourself and your career.
Our mission is to securely manage customer data for Lloyds Banking Group, ensuring it is accessible for authorized purposes while maintaining performance, resilience, and data integrity. We also strive to uphold top-tier engineering standards.
As a Senior Solution Architect, you thrive talking with stakeholders and designing innovative solutions that meet their requirements. Your designs are clean, easy to comprehend and remain cost effective to change over time. You enjoy designing for a cloud environment and know how to benefit from elasticity and resilience whilst remaining secure.
More specifically we’d like you to have much of the following, but it's ok if you don't check every box:
Proficient in interpreting diverse stakeholder requirements and transforming them into coherent, innovative designs that align with the strategic objectives of the organisation
Skilled at communicating designs to engineering teams and helping them break work down into deliverables
Excellent diagramming techniques for both data and system modelling
Experienced at designing performant and scalable systems that are cost effective to maintain and operate
Experienced with event-driven, restful, micro-service architectures as well as the SOLID design principles
Experienced at data modelling and domain segregation
Experienced at designing data pipelines for cloud platforms (ideally GCP)
Good at articulating architecture trade-offs and selecting architectures according to best fit
Follow a security first architecture approach
Knowledge of Java, OOP, data structures and algorithms
Have a working knowledge of Agile and be familiar with its values and principles
Enjoy mentoring and motivating the teams around you
Have a growth mindset
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 to start growing with purpose? Apply today
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.
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What We Do
Our purpose is Helping Britain Prosper. We do this by creating a more sustainable and inclusive future for people and businesses, shaping finance as a force for good.
We're part of an ever-changing industry and are currently on a journey to shape the financial services of the future, whilst supporting our customers’ changing needs.
The scale and reach of our Group means we can offer a broad range of opportunities to learn, grow and develop. Our values-led culture and approach to inclusion and diversity means we can all make a real difference together.
