Senior Solution Architect

The purpose of the Senior Solution Architect is to design and communicate the technology solutions with an architectural significance that deliver our key outcomes or epics, They create the designs to meet our quality, resilience and technical objectives. They contribute to the definition of the solution architecture forward look.

You'll help accelerate the delivery of business applications to our strategic cloud platforms, supporting and empowering our business to deliver the very best technical solutions quickly & safely.

You'll be working alongside Lead Solution Architects and Engineering Teams bringing and expert knowledge of Infrastructure Architecture in order to design and deliver Hybrid Cloud solutions across our private and public cloud hosted environments to enable product delivery and transformation.

We'll look to you to influence and promote collaboration across business platforms and labs on the solution delivery. Partnering with platform and business teams to you'll elaborate the solution and the infrastructure components, validating technology assumptions and helping make complex design decisions.

What you'll do?

• Align to a business platform responsible for a banking product or service, where we influence their strategy and direction.
• Owning the hybrid cloud design and governance, driving resolution through iteration focussing on resilience, simplicity and with sustainability in mind.
• Turning requirements and specifications into hybrid cloud designs; shaping key design decisions and iterating ideas as you go.
• Providing consultancy and cost estimates, to ensure your business platform can budget accordingly and make informed strategic decisions.
• Using your experience of leading Suppliers, SMEs and Supply Lines to write work packages that are clear, understood and delivered on time.
• Support the wide function to enable the automation of key infrastructure blueprints and patterns.
• Taking a lead in all aspects of infrastructure throughout the delivery lifecycle, including:
• Working with Lead Solution Architects and Senior Solution Archtect to design and deliver hybrid cloud designs.
• Working with labs to formulate plans and understand costs for any technical delivery.
• Engaging suppliers and internal delivery teams to deliver in an agile manner.
• Coordinating build activities with internal or 3rd party service providers
• Collaborating with service owners to ensure systems are properly tested and supported following go-live

• Experienced in the design/architecture of Hybrid Cloud solutions in an enterprise environment, e.g. IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, Middleware, Storage, Network and Databases.
• Experience of Public & Private Cloud Platforms, concepts and technologies including Azure, GCP and AWS.
• Integration Architecture across private and public cloud platforms.
• Skilled at producing quality concise design documentation.
• Hands-On experience of end-to-end project delivery, working with Agile delivery models including modern software development and deployment practices
• Understanding of building applications through containerised microservices-based architectures.
• Be able to provide technical leadership in a complex multi-vendor environment.
• The ability to communicate and collaborate complex technical concepts clearly to peers and leadership level colleagues.

Like the modern Britain we serve, we're evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We're growing with purpose., 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.