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Form of workJOB TITLE: Senior Solution Architect - Homes Platform
SALARY: £66,861 - £100,300
LOCATION(S): Halifax or Leeds
HOURS: [Full-time]
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week currently, or 40% of our time, at our Halifax or Leeds Office
About this opportunity
About this opportunity:
Our team in the Homes Platform is passionate about creating new services for our customers that transform the customer and colleague experience. Our culture brings together hardworking, people from a diverse group of backgrounds who enjoy a collaborative and innovative environment that supports flexible and agile working.
As a Senior Solution Architect, you'll provide leadership across key aspects of delivery from initiation up through design and into delivery and beyond. You'll be the leading design authority for a Lab or group of products and possess expert knowledge of multiple applications, technologies and business processes across a number of Platform domains. You'll be a role model, mentor and line manager within the programme delivery community.
What will you do?
Lead a team of Architects and Engineers, cultivating collaboration through their extensive expertise and influence.
Deliver the best technical solutions for complex or significant business needs, where no precedent may exist.
Ensure compliance with the Banks IT architecture design with all regulatory, mandatory and statutory requirements, ensuring the Bank is protected at all times.
Run and chair technical design meetings to achieve purposeful outcomes.
Participate in risk management, using it to influence change planning and delivery.
Work to ensure alignment across the various delivery teams within the organisation.
Here's where you'll make a difference:
Your contribution will influence our strategy of simplifying, modernising, and de-risking the Homes Platform technology landscape, enabling the Bank of the Future and ultimately driving value for customers and shareholders. This is a key role at the financial heart of the Group, underpinning the long-term sustainability and integrity of the organisation.
Why Lloyds Banking Group
Like the modern Britain we serve, we're evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We're growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you'll too.
What we need from you:
We need a leader in Solution Architecture who knows and understands the challenges of modern software development in a complex Enterprise. You'll build a compelling and powerful image of where we're heading to from an architecture and design perspective.
You'll understand technology implications for people and process, and will bring this to your holistic view of design. You'll ideally have previous career experience in software engineering or Solution Architecture and will be well placed to define and sell your vision for Engineers, Architects, and Product Owners alike.
We're looking for someone who can provide evidence of their:
Experience of Solution Architecture, including working with complex Enterprise platforms
Ability to drive complex negotiations to gain agreement from senior stakeholders
Ability to see the big picture and translate Business priorities into technical solutions
Line management of technical resources
Understanding of risk management concepts and how to factor this into work prioritisation models
Strong understanding of and experience of working with Enterprise Architecture principles and strategy
Strong understanding of building applications through containerised microservices-based architectures, with a working-to-strong understanding of cloud methodologies
Experience of risk, infrastructure, resilience and security architecture practices and concerns
Active involvement in architecture and design governance
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 performance-related bonus
Share schemes including free shares
Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
Generous holiday allowance, with bank holidays on top
A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
Want to do amazing work, that's interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.
