Senior Solutions Architect

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Job Description

JOB TITLE: Senior Solutions Architect

SALARY: £70,929 - £80,000

LOCATION(S): Leeds, Bristol or Birmingham

HOURS:  Full time

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in an above office site

A great opportunity has arisen for a Solutions Architect to work within the Segments and Propositions Platform to join product engineering cross functional teams! As a Solutions Architect your responsibilities will be delivering the highest quality solution design, drawing upon your engineering expertise, whilst being open minded to the opportunities the cloud provides!

The Segments and Propositions Platform will continue to build the new proposition Lloyds 360, create new and intuitive digital journeys to support customers to save and invest as well as deliver new banking and investment products and services. Sitting within Consumer Relationships, our Segments and Propositions platform will drive us to develop long-term relationships with a key segment of customers with over £75,000 in income or investable assets. We have launched a new Digital Advice journey on the mobile app in the Lloyds 360 Space with Save and Invest calculator going live recently.

What you’ll be doing

• Lead and manage the design of cloud native solutions considering functional and non-functional aspects including the deployment & build approach, automation, route to live and support model.

• Optimise cloud native solutions for cost, performance, security, compliance and regulatory requirements.

• Design and implement event driven microservice architecture supporting LBG’s competitive position.

• Mentoring other engineers to deliver high quality and cloud led solutions for our Bank’s customers.

• Lead, direct and shape approaches to solving technical challenges and translating business requirements into technical solutions.

• Established experiences partnering with other collaborators such as Enterprise, Security, Data & Infrastructure architects to create customer value or address business problems.

• Support Product Owners & Platform Leads in identifying, articulating and impact assessing software & infrastructure currency risks or issues, offering options & recommendations on action planning & continuously ever-greening solutions/systems within the Platform.

About us

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

• Strong Solution Architecture experience, using a range of modern technologies (Single Page Applications technologies such as ReactJS), Mobile Native and Cross Platform Apps (Apple iOS, Android or React Native), Microservices, APIs and cloud technologies.

• Experience in Event Driven Architectures & Streaming Platforms (Kafka).

• Strong experience working with API standards, security and gateway patterns.

• Working experience with data technologies – SQL/NoSQL, Big Data.

• Implementation experience in one of the cloud platforms, specifically GCP.

• API Gateways and Management Platforms (such as IBM API Connect, IBM DataPower, Apigee.

• or Microsoft Azure API Manager).Good understating of cloud storage, security, networking and resource provisioning.

It would be great if you had…

• Certification in GCP.

• “Professional Cloud Architect”Strong experience in data analysis.

• Experience in agile / iterative design working practices

• Knowledge of AI.

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 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’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.

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.