Senior Solution Architect

Senior Solution Architect page is loaded## Senior Solution Architectlocations: Edinburghtime type: Full timeposted on: Posted Todaytime left to apply: End Date: December 12, 2025 (24 days left to apply)job requisition id: 133153**End Date**Thursday 11 December 2025**Salary Range**£90,440 - £106,400**Flexible Working Options**Hybrid Working, Job Share**Job Description Summary**-**Job Description**JOB TITLE: Senior Solution ArchitectSALARY: £90,400 - £106,400LOCATION: EdinburghHOURS: Full-timeWORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at leasttwo days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sitesAs a Lead Solution Architect, you will design and orchestrate complex solution architectures that deliver key business outcomes. You’ll play a pivotal role in enabling teams to move at pace by shaping the forward-looking architecture for a lab or platform. Working closely with Product Owners, engineering teams, and Enterprise Architects, you will ensure solutions are robust, scalable, and aligned with strategic objectives.About this opportunityYou will join our Economic Crime Prevention Platform, an initiative focused on protecting customers and the bank from financial threats. We use data-driven intelligence, AI, and machine learning to predict, detect, and prevent economic crime. Our work includes personalised interventions, mobile-first fraud journeys, and advanced investigation tools, ensuring interactions are efficient and compliant. By leveraging external data partnerships and technologies like GenAI and Graph Neural Networks, we deliver proactive solutions that safeguard millions and shape the future of financial security. If you’re passionate about solving complex problems and driving innovation, this is your chance to make a real impact.Day to day, you will:* Shape and deliver solution architecture that drives strategic outcomes across platforms and labs.* Lead complex design initiatives, ensuring alignment with business goals and technical standards.* Collaborate with Product Owners, engineering teams, and Enterprise Architects to enable delivery at pace.* Champion best practices in compliance, quality assurance, and change management.* Mentor and coach teams, fostering technical excellence and continuous improvement.* Influence long-term strategy, developing frameworks and methods to optimise resources and enhance business performance.Why Lloyds Banking GroupLike 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:* Previous hands-on engineering experience (e.g., software development) with a deep understanding of technical delivery and design principles.* Story-telling skills to describe our Solution Architecture and get agreement to achieve it.* Experience of architecting modern ecosystems to support the transformation of monolithic applications* Relationship and collaborator skills to energise our product and engineering communities.* Practical, hands-on experience required for defining the patterns, standards and practices guiding our engineering community.* Experience of leading small to medium size teams and the ability to coachAbout working for usOur 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, cycle to work, financial advice etc.• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies**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.**With 320 years under our belt, we're used to change, and today is no different. Join us and help drive this change, shaping the future of finance whilst working at pace to deliver for our customers.Here, you'll do the best work of your career. Your impact will be amplified by our scale as you learn and develop, gaining skills for the future.
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