Solution Architect Chester
Job description
Job Title: Solutions Architect Salary: £66,861 -£74,290 Location: Chester Hours: (Full time / Part Time) Working Pattern: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in office. About us We're on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we're shaping finance for good. We're focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you. About the role Consumer Finance will give you the opportunity to work in a fun dynamic team who are at the forefront of leading the way for customers & colleagues in transforming & digitising the Lloyds Banking Group Retail Bank across mobile, branch, telephony and internet banking. The transformation culture Consumer Finance lives by is to empower its co-located teams to create dynamic environments using agile methodology, including scrum, ultimately providing outstanding customer experiences; and by driving innovative technology solutions that drive iterative change across research, buy and servicing needs to market at pace. An exciting opportunity has arisen as a Solution Architect for the Loans Lab. Working in a strong collaborative way to drive efforts to create, build, support and improve our end to end architecture across our channel development portfolio, also working closely with the product and engineering teams with lots of exciting new challenges. You'll do Identify general improvements and implement engineering best practices. Collaborate with the product/design team to iterate the design function and implement the products. Collaborate with Front End, Data and DevOps Engineers to build features and experiments Providing technical leadership within Feature teams Build efficient and reusable back-end systems and abstractions Find and address performance issues Participate in design and code reviews Take ownership of specific problems and deliver customer focused outcomes What you'll need Experience in Spring, Spring IOC/DI Experience of building Microservices Experience in Big Data and Hadoop ecosystem Strong experience of Rest Services and Core java Strong understanding of Web technologies such as JavaScript, HTML, CSS, JQuery, JSON, XML Exposure to at least one of Liberty, Tomcat or Jetty Containers Exposure to open source technologies and frameworks Basic SQL and Database knowledge Desirable skills Preferable experience with Python and ML technologies Preferable experience with public cloud infrastructure 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 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 Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more. Lloyds Banking Group
