Solution Architect

Solution Architect Bristol, England

Lloyds Banking Group
Full Time Bristol, England 66861 - 74290 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description

End Date
Thursday 21 September 2023
Salary Range
£66,861 - £74,290

Agile Working Options
Flexibility in when hours are worked
Job Description Summary
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Job Description
SALARY: £66,861-£74,290 per annum
LOCATION: Bristol
HOURS: Full-time (35 hours per week)
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites.
ABOUT THIS OPPORTUNITY
Do you want to play a key part in ground-breaking transformation and design products that will support businesses grow?
This vacancy is in the Business and Commercial Banking (BCB) division, within the Client Servicing & Engagement (CSE) platform. Our purpose is to create and deliver products that enable clients to grow their businesses.
This is an excellent opportunity for a driven candidate to join us as a Solutions Architect working across a small number of cross-disciplinary feature teams to define solution architecture and designs that unlock and create opportunities to digitise & deliver excellent client journeys, business outcomes and meet the groups strategic goals to simplify and redefine the technology landscape.
Key Duties and Responsibilities
As a Solution Architect you will:
  • Collaborate with Product Owners, Platform Leads, Enterprise Architects & Engineers to create the Architectural runway for our Platform teams;
  • Be responsible for our application architecture and the delivery of our engineering design deliverables and managing architecture decisions through formal governance processes whilst ensuring IT Compliance and governance policies are met
  • Partner with fellow solution architects & service providers to elaborate on solutions, their interfaces and validating technology assumptions, evaluating implementation alternatives and software lifecycle risks, assumptions, issues & dependencies.
  • Provide analysis of options and deliver end-to-end solution designs using relevant architectural building blocks as well as producing designs for features that enable frequent incremental customer value delivery.
  • Promote adaptive design practises to drive collaboration across Platform teams centring on a common vision with continuous feedback.
  • Capture technical design risks or issues and drive resolution through architectural or agile practices.
ABOUT US
We’re on an exciting journey and there couldn’t be a better time to join us. The investments we’re making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities, and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive.
WHAT YOU’LL NEED
Technical Skills
  • Prior experience in a solution architecture position and demonstrable working knowledge of infrastructure and security architecture practices and concerns as well as experience in architecture and design governance
  • Strong understanding of building applications through containerised microservices-based architectures, with a working-to-strong understanding of cloud methodologies;
  • Experience in the following:
a. Mobile Native & Cross Platform Apps for Apple iOS, Android or ReactNative
b. API Gateways & Management Platforms such as IBM API Connect, IBM Data Power, Apigee, Microsoft Azure API Manager, or similar
c. Programming languages, including Java
d. Micro-front end and micro-service API design, event driven architecture
e. Single Page Applications using technologies such as ReactJS, AngularJS or equivalent
Behavioural Skills
  • A “can-do” attitude, capability of bootstrapping projects and ability to effectively work with multi-disciplinary, internal, and external distributed teams across the project lifecycle
  • Confidence to express own opinions and be pragmatic about modifying them when appropriate and strong communication skills with excellent collaboration capabilities
ABOUT WORKING FOR US
We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.
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
Ready to start growing with purpose? Apply today!
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.

Solution Architect
Lloyds Banking Group

www.lloydsbankinggroup.com/careers
London, United Kingdom
Charlie Nunn
Unknown / Non-Applicable
10000+ Employees
Company - Public
Banking & Lending
Finance
1695
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