Solution Architect London, England
Lloyds Banking Group
Full Time
London, England
85208 - 106510 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
End Date
Thursday 30 March 2023
Salary Range
£85,208 - £106,510Agile Working Options
Job Description Summary
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Job Description
Solution Architect
Lloyds Banking Group
Salary & Benefits: £85,208 - £106,510 (depending on experience)
Location: London (We can flexible on location and can also consider candidates based in other areas of the UK)
We'll also give you a broad remuneration package which includes:
- A performance share bonus
- A generous pension contribution
- A flex cash pot you can adjust to suit your lifestyle
- Private health cover
- A minimum of 30 days holiday plus bank holidays
- Various share schemes including free shares
Lloyds Banking Group is the UK's leading bank with over 30m customers, and it’s the biggest digital bank, with over 18 million active online customers. We've placed a bold transformation programme and a multi-channel approach to banking , at the heart of our strategy to be the best bank for customers, backed by significant investment in our platforms and people over the next three years.
What will I do?
You’ll Define solutions and technology stack to meet the business demand from partners, responsible for compliance with non-functional requirements, analyse enterprise specifics, set the collaboration framework, create a solution prototype & control the solution development.
Where does this role sit
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 our Head of Engineering, you'll lead the technical direction and develop tech strategy in collaboration with business and enterprise architects. You'll drive the core technology agenda within the platform. You'll be responsible for the technical roadmap, management of technical debt and other technical demands. You'll accountable for the engineering teams that will design, build, or integrate, deploy, and run the system, particularly software, that supports the business and operations, with a focus on resilience, low latency, reusability, accessibility by third parties and scalability.
Perhaps you can make it possible.
What core skills and Characteristics are needed?
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 proficiency and enthusiasm to grow.
- Creative and innovative, with ability to think ‘creatively’ to solve problems and assess impacts in a complex and inter-dependent systems architecture
- Ability to ‘Keep it real’ to ensure critical 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 partners 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 field such as data, security, or infrastructure
- Risk and financial crime
- Finance and payments
- Data provision, or data management
- Domain knowledge from platform, technology, or business perspective:
- 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 you'll get in return:
We have the scale to provide genuine opportunities to develop and achieve a rewarding and fulfilling career.
We can offer working outside the traditional 9:5 a with flexible and hybrid working patterns and care about what might work for you...
We're also passionate about diversity and equal opportunity with industry recognition across gender, ethnicity, disability, LGBTQ+ and families. Being disability positive, reasonable adjustments can be accommodated in our recruitment process.
We’re proud to have received the following industry recognitions that show our commitment to inclusion:
- Stonewall - Top Private Sector Employer
- Working Families - Top 10 Employer
- The Times - Top 50 Employer for Women
- Business Disability Forum - ‘Gold Standard’ and ‘Best Workplace Adjustments Process’
So if you possess the skills we're seeking then get in touch, 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.
