Solution Architect London, England
Lloyds Banking Group
Full Time
London, England
81928 - 102410 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
End Date
Friday 28 April 2023
Salary Range
£81,928 - £102,410Agile Working Options
Job Description Summary
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Job Description
Location: London (2 days in the office, the rest from home)
Salary Benefits £85,208- £106,260 base salary, plus annual discretionary bonus, 15% employer pension contribution (when you put in 6%), private medical insurance, 30 days holiday plus bank holidays.
We also offer flexible working hours, agile working practices and regular home working. We aim to ensure you have a good work-life balance and positive mental health!
About Lloyds Banking Group
We're the UK’s biggest Retail, Digital and Mobile bank with over 30 million customers and a big responsibility to help Britain Prosper. We’re in the middle of a £3bn investment into our People, Platforms and Data strategy to build the Bank of the Future and grow sustainably.
Lloyds Banking Group, we're inspired by a clear purpose; to Help Britain Recover. Across the Group, our colleagues are passionate about making a difference to customers, businesses and communities.
About the Team
Everyday Banking platform is responsible for the end-to-end journeys for personal current accounts and savings products to consumers, including servicing of debit and credit cards in multiple channels, as well as owning Vault, Core Banking Systems and e-statements.
Our team within the Everyday Banking platform is passionate about supporting and creating new services for our customers that transform the customer and colleague experience. Our culture brings together smart, hardworking, people from a diverse group of backgrounds that enjoy a collaborative and innovative environment that supports flexible and agile working.
We're creating new opportunities and products to improve customer experiences for years to come. With our business evolving to more modern and flexible ways of working, we want driven, dynamic and innovative individuals who join us on this journey.
Everyday Banking platform is responsible for the end-to-end journeys for personal current accounts and savings products to consumers, including servicing of debit and credit cards in multiple channels, as well as owning Vault, Core Banking Systems and e-statements.
Our team within the Everyday Banking platform is passionate about supporting and creating new services for our customers that transform the customer and colleague experience. Our culture brings together smart, hardworking, people from a diverse group of backgrounds that enjoy a collaborative and innovative environment that supports flexible and agile working.
We're creating new opportunities and products to improve customer experiences for years to come. With our business evolving to more modern and flexible ways of working, we want driven, dynamic and innovative individuals who join us on this journey.
About the role
As a Solution Architect, you'll lead from the front in designing our target architecture and solutions that move us towards it as we transform. You'll work with Engineering Leads, Product Owners and Lead Developers to ensure we're building the right thing – and building the thing right.
As well as guiding and communicating our enterprise vision through Solution Design, you'll play a huge part in keeping our customers safe, through thoughtful, pragmatic design choices that can be built, modified, and operated in a fast-paced agile environment.
Your contribution will be instrumental to our strategy of simplifying, modernising, and de-risking the technology landscape, enabling the Bank of the Future and ultimately driving value for customers and shareholders.
What you’ll do
- Be responsible for defining our application architecture and leading architecture decisions through formal governance processes.
- Manage the IT Roadmap, driving innovation while standardising methodology.
- Ensure IT compliance and governance policies are met
- Work collaboratively with the Product Owner as well as Engineers, Business Analysts and Scrum Masters to help in building team capability.
What we need from you:
This is a leadership role, providing direction for our Lab engineers, blending domain knowledge and deep technical expertise, and coaching cross-disciplinary feature teams to deliver high quality maintainable software.
As a minimum we'll need to see evidence of:
- Prior experience in a solution architecture position
- Strong understanding of modern software development practices
- Excellent Stakeholder and Relationship management skills.
- Strong ability to influence customers at a senior level across job families
- Strong understanding of building applications through containerised microservices-based architectures, with a working-to-strong understanding of cloud methodologies
- Working knowledge of infrastructure and security architecture practices and concerns
- Have played an active part in architecture and design governance
Together we make it possible!
We want you to experience the freedom and autonomy to realise your potential. Share your ideas and make them happen and feel supported and listened to by a team that celebrates individuality and independent thought, encourages different perspectives, and embraces every background.
We want you to experience the freedom and autonomy to realise your potential. Share your ideas and make them happen and feel supported and listened to by a team that celebrates individuality and independent thought, encourages different perspectives, and embraces every background.
We'll ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process and to perform crucial job functions.
Join us and be part of an inclusive, values-led culture that celebrates diversity!
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.
