Core Banking Services - Solution Architect

End Date
Thursday 21 March 2024
Salary Range
£85,255 - £100,300
We support agile working - click here for more information on agile working options.
Agile Working Options
Hybrid Working
Job Description Summary
• Collaborating with Product Owners, Platform Leads, Enterprise Architects & Engineers to create the Architectural runway for our Platform teams. Once baselined, our Solution Architects continuously invest in maintaining the Architecture runway underpinning our Platform teams.
• Partner with Enterprise Architecture & service providers to elaborate on solutions, their interfaces and validating technology assumptions, evaluating implementation alternatives and software lifecycle risks, assumptions, issues & dependencies.
• Providing 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.
• Promoting adaptive design practises to drive collaboration across Platform teams centring on a common vision with continuous feedback.
• Owning the technical design risks or issues and driving resolution through architectural or agile practises.
• Participating in Agile ceremonies, elicit requirements, shape & validate designs or prototypes that deliver customer outcomes that align to our target architecture.
• Leveraging industry best practise, frameworks, standards & policies in creating opportunities & value for our customers.
• Contributing to the financial investment process to obtain funding for key solution opportunities.
• Setting guiding principles and solution success criteria for platform capability or feature development across our Platforms.
• Providing oversight & foster built in quality, decoupled & modernised architectures.
• Supporting Product Owners & Platform Leads in identifying, articulating and impact assessing software & infrastructure currency risks or issues, offering options & recommendations on action planning & continuously evergreening solutions/systems within the Platform.
• Supporting Product Owners & Platform Leads on the technical aspect of activities linked with Platform financial estimation, spend or risk management processes in line with the platform roadmap.
• As a Senior Solution Architect, you will also hold overall responsibility for leading and directing a diverse workforce to achieve the business strategy, Inspiring people, achieving their full commitment to do the extraordinary.
Job Description
Makes a significant improvement on short-term or long-term business performance by recommending authoritative technical and/or professional solutions. Develops innovative solutions by integrating and analysing complex and diverse information sources. Manages a significant portion of the organisation's risk management and/or control process, contributing to the development and implementation of risk management policies and procedures. Makes authoritative technical and/or professional recommendations that have a significant short-term and long-term impact on the business. Writes and edits materials for a variety of target populations, tailoring the tone and content to match the needs and expectations of each audience. Initiates, formulates and implements new business practices for own discipline, while managing the development and/or delivery of a significant element of the organisation's change management programme. Takes responsibility for implementing formal development frameworks for a substantial department, while informally coaching and mentoring others throughout the organisation and investing in own personal development. Manages output delivery for a substantial operational department by leading others. Sets longer term objectives and takes responsibility for implementing and coordinating performance management systems for a substantial department within the organisation. Analyses and evaluates the feasibility/relevance of proposals for complex products/services, then develops and amends as necessary with guidance from senior colleagues and/or supervises activities performed by a product development/specialist team. Develops and/or delivers elements of a strategic planning system with guidance from senior colleagues. Provides input into the development of IT Security policies, develops underlying procedures and monitors their implementation for area of responsibility within the organisation.
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.
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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.