Solution Architect Edinburgh, Scotland
Lloyds Banking Group
Full Time
Edinburgh, Scotland
52912 - 66140 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
End Date
Sunday 14 May 2023
Salary Range
£52,912 - £66,140Agile Working Options
Job Description Summary
Want to join a team that is going through an exciting transformation, where you’ll influence our future using your Solution Architecture skills?This role is all about creating a cooperative, innovative, and dynamic partnership across architecture, engineering, and business communities so we're looking for a real team player.
We’re creating an environment for positive learning and self-development for Solution Architects so you can be your best every day.
We’ll provide you with a diverse and energising environment that focuses on equal opportunity and supports career progression. A role within our team will provide you with the chance to work flexibly and collaboratively, while guiding us towards our technology strategy. We’ll take your personal and professional development very seriously and enable you to make a positive difference to the overall team's mission.
Job Description
Here at Lloyds Banking Group, we’re transforming the way we do Design and Engineering. We're building multi-functional teams and giving them freedom to bring technology to the forefront of our business. This will help us both enhance and create new products and services to help us really make a difference to our customers.
As a Solution Architect within Insurance, Pensions and Investments you’ll take ownership for defining and reshaping our technology strategy to achieve customer and business outcomes. We’re on a journey towards contemporary architectures delivered through Public and Private Cloud and are doing this through a mix of build and buy approaches. You’ll be working with Engineering Leads, Enterprise Architects and Business Architects to ensure we’re building the right thing, in the right way.
Skills
We provide an environment that supports learning and development. Candidates should be able to demonstrate a range of the core characteristics and capabilities and have the aptitude and enthusiasm to grow.
Core Characteristics:
- Creative and innovative, with ability to think ‘outside the box’ to solve problems and assess impacts in a complex and inter-dependent systems architecture
- Ability to ‘Keep it real’ to ensure strategic thinking can be translated into deliverable solutions
- Great communication skills to promote and syndicate designs, and explain the complex in a simple and engaging manner accessible to both business and IT audiences
- Strong negotiation and facilitation skills with the ability to listen and display emotional intelligence when navigating conflicting views.
- Ability to show sound analytical capabilities and judgement when evaluating and identifying options considering requirements, constraints, strategy, risks and gaining consensus from stakeholders and governance panels.
- Good technical writing skills, able to document complex designs or concepts both clearly and accurately
- Ability to consider the ‘big picture’ when making design decisions in terms of breadth of architecture, impacts, transition paths and both short, and long-term goals.
- A keen interest in technology either at logical or physical level, and a desire to keep up to date with new technologies and tech trends
- Experience of working on complex logical or physical technical designs in a regulated environment
Desired Experience:
Don’t worry if you don’t tick all these boxes; we’ve got a number of opportunities in a very varied architecture which require a diverse set of skills. We’re open minded and keen to invest in enthusiastic, curious, and positive people!
- Experience working as a Solution Architect, or in another senior analyst or engineering role
- Expertise in a specific discipline such as data, security, or infrastructure
- Domain expertise in cross-functional enterprise capabilities, for example:
- Customer
- Risk and financial crime
- Finance and payments
- Data provision, or data management
- Domain knowledge from platform, technology, or business perspective:
- Pensions and Investments
- Life Insurance
- Home and Motor Insurance
- Digital and Mobile banking
- Familiarity with Agile methodology and of working as part of an Agile multi-disciplinary team
- Knowledge of contemporary architecture application approaches (Cloud, microservices, API and event driven architectures)
- TOGAF qualifications or working towards qualification
What we offer you in return…
As a team we’re invested in your continual development. That’s why we’ve fostered a collaborative learning environment that supports your career goals and encourages knowledge-sharing. Our inclusive culture offers you flexibility to try new things while helping you build the future you want.
Currently most of the team is working remotely, and we intend to continue with a hybrid approach into the future. We also appreciate normal office hours can sometimes be a challenge, and whilst we can’t always adopt every flexible working request, they will always be considered.
You'll also receive a package that includes
- Discretionary bonus
- Cash sum of 4% which you can exchange for a variety of benefits or simply take the cash
- Private Medical Insurance
- Pension, where we'll give up to a max of 15%
- Share plans
- 30 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays
And finally…
We pride ourselves on being hard-working, outcome-focused, and passionate about making a difference. We're focused on creating a values-led culture, and our approach to inclusion and diversity means that we can all make a real difference, together.
Our continued commitment to helping Britain recover means that as a colleague you can make a difference to customers, businesses, and communities.
Together we have a key role to play in shaping the bank of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll continue to have opportunities to learn, grow and develop.
Are you interested in joining us? Apply today, we’d love to hear from you...
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'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.
