Senior Solution Architect

**End Date**

Friday 19 May 2023
**Salary Range**

£61,176 - £99,411

**Agile Working Options**

Other Agile Working Arrangements / Open to Discussion
**Job Description Summary**

**Job Description**:
We’re rapidly transforming into a digitally-led business on a massive scale in order to better serve our customers.
We’re already the largest provider of digital banking products in the UK, with over 12 million active online customers and nearly 8 million active mobile banking customers. It means a big opportunity for you to be part of ground-breaking transformation and it means there’s never been a more exciting time to join.
An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Consumer Servicing Value Stream for a Lead Solution Architect.
Within Consumer Servicing we are undertaking a series of colleague and customer journeys, aimed at improving the way we do business with our clients throughout the UK, providing better value to our relationships and increasing the productivity of our colleagues, thereby Helping Britain Prosper.
These journeys are being undertaken within a fast-moving, exciting Lab construct, whereby we land change iteratively and at pace through Agile working practices. The pace of change, innovative practices and the flexibility that this gives us, makes this a great team to join.

**Senior Solutions Architect - Consumer Servicing & Engagement**

**Location**: London based with flexibility to work from home 2-3 days per week

**Salary & Benefits**: £75,553.00 - £110,510.00 GBP base salary, plus annual personal bonus, 15% employer pension contribution (when you put in 6%), private medical insurance, 30 days holiday plus bank holidays.

We also offer flexible working hours, agile working practices and regular home working.

**Who are Lloyds Banking Group?**

Lloyds Banking Group is the UK's leading digital bank and biggest mobile bank with nearly 14 million active online customers across our three main brands - including Lloyds Bank, Halifax and Bank of Scotland - as well as the biggest mobile bank in the country.

We're investing £3bn in our future - across platforms, people and data capabilities to truly become the best bank for customers, with unparalleled growth into areas such as Data Science, AI and Robotics. We're building the bank of the future, and we need your help.

**About the Team**:
We’re rapidly transforming into a digitally-led business on a massive scale in order to better serve our customers.

We’re already the largest provider of digital banking products in the UK, with over 12 million active online customers and nearly 8 million active mobile banking customers. It means a big opportunity for you to be part of ground-breaking transformation and it means there’s never been a more exciting time to join.

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Consumer Servicing & Engagement Platform for Senior Solution Architects.

Within Consumer Servicing & Engagement we are undertaking a series of colleague and customer journeys, aimed at improving the way we do business with our clients throughout the UK, providing better value to our relationships and increasing the productivity of our colleagues, thereby Helping Britain Prosper.

These journeys are being undertaken within a fast-moving, exciting Lab construct, whereby we land change iteratively and at pace through Agile working practices. The pace of change, innovative practices and the flexibility that this gives us, makes this a great team to join.

**About the Role**:
**What you'll do**:

- Own the design of solutions for large projects and programmes throughout the entire project lifecycle
- Through expert engineering and architectural skills translate high level business requirements into technology architectures that align to the strategic architecture.
- Direct and control specialist teams to undertake the delivery of comprehensive designs.
- Lead senior business partners to secure strong engagement for the solution and ensure that delivery aligns to longer term roadmaps.
- Work closely with external suppliers to ensure the solution meets requirements
- Take designs through governance processes with meaningful architectural artefacts and ensure the required engineering and architecture cohorts are engaged as required throughout the design phase
- Monitor technology developments to ensure that Lloyds Banking Group is effectively positioned to respond to and use opportunities through the adoption of new practices or technologies.
- You'll have a broad technical awareness to lead and get involved in technical delivery and problem solving when required
- Coach and lead other engineers and build a strong team culture through peer-to-peer teamwork and development

**What we’ll need from you**:

- Strong Software Engineering and Architecture background
- Knowledge of agile development practices with a history of technical leadership.
- Experience across the entire solutions development life-cycle from inception, through build to production
- You'll appreciate and acknowledge the impact of system design decisions on scalability, resilience and supportability.
- Experience of API design and architecture patterns, messaging technologies (Kafka, MQ)
- Excellent partner management and presentation skills

**Preferable if you also have**:

- Knowledge of delivery of microservices to production.
- Exposure to Systems Thinking
- Exposure to Docker and container orchestration tools e.g. Kubernetes

**Plus, knowledge in one or more of the following**:

- API Economy,
- Big Data
- Cloud/Open Source,
- Automation/Robotics,
- Blockchain

Personal skills we look for when we meet you include good interpersonal skills, ability to build good working relationships, logical & creative thinking skills. Being able to articulate the benefits or the work we do.

More than anything you'll bring passion, can do attitude and an open mind to help us develop new ways of doing things, whilst developing your own skills and experience.

We're committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve, and to building an inclusive environment where all our colleagues can be themselves and succeed on merit. We're proud of the industry recognition we have received including Stonewall Top 100 Employer, Top 50 Employer for Women and Top 30 Employer for Working Families.

We're an equal opportunity employer and deeply value diversity within our organisation.

**Together we make it possible**

**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.