Lead Solution Architect

The purpose of the Senior Solution Architect is to orchestrate complex solution architectures with a broad architectural significance for key outcomes or epics by defining the architectures and designs that deliver our key outcomes aligning with our technology strategy. They play a substantive role in enabling teams to deliver at pace by shaping the solution architecture forward look for a lab or platform, and partner with Product Owners engineering teams and Enterprise architects.

• 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

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

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., 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.