Head of Solution Architecture

2 months ago


Edinburgh, United Kingdom Lloyds Banking Group Full time

End Date

Tuesday 23 April 2024

Salary Range

£121,023 - £142,380
- We support flexible working - click here for more information on flexible working options

Flexible Working Options

Hybrid Working

Job Description Summary


**Job Description**:
JOB TITLE: Head of Solution Architecture

SALARY: £121,023 - £142,380

LOCATION: Edinburgh, Bristol or Leeds

HOURS: Full time

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

About this opportunity

We require an experienced architecture and technology leader to define, shape and execute on our Insurance, Pensions & Investments Technology Strategy. Working in partnership with the CIO and their Leadership team, your architecture function will set the direction for the products which serve over five million customers in the UK, and work day-to-day alongside our engineering practices to make sure we build in line with our architecture vision.

Architecture is at the heart of our technology decision making, and this role requires a senior architecture leader who can bring a principled, commercially-savvy approach to influencing and guiding senior technology leaders across Lloyds Banking Group to deliver our Insurance outcomes.

You will also act as technology evangelist, working with your peers in senior Enterprise Architecture roles bringing to bear your experience and your enthusiasm to educate, to inform, to inspire, and to lead our organisation into the future.

About us

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. Join us on our journey and you will too

What you’ll need
- The Vision and Story-telling skills to describe our Target Architecture and gain buy in across the c-suite to achieve it
- The drive and tenacity necessary to secure buy-in to your architecture vision.
- The technical communication skills necessary to engage and inspire hundreds of Architecture and Engineering colleagues to deliver your unified vision
- The commercial experience necessary to understand the trade-offs between time, cost and quality to get to the best possible outcome.
- The contemporary digital cloud, data and digital skills needed to make the right choices across a variety of technologies and platforms
- A deep understanding of the approaches to managing and modernising the parts of the architecture estate which have been in-situ for decades
- The knowledge to be able to talk to and understand our customers and our engineers, reaching solutions that meets the needs of each group

And experience of these is essential
- Demonstrable experience of defining and executing business-wide Architecture transformation
- Practical
- Practical experience of running large, multi-disciplinary architecture teams across multiple sites
- Deep technology expertise on a number of fronts, including cloud-based architectures, data architecture, contemporary digital architecture practices, as well as experience in selecting and integrating enterprise-level commercial off the shelf software

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’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%
- 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



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