Solution Architect

End Date
Wednesday 31 January 2024Salary Range
£85,255 - £100,300
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JOB TITLE: Solution Architect - Enterprise Risk Platform
SALARY: The salary banding is £85,255 - £100,300
LOCATION: Edinburgh or Leeds
HOURS: 35 hours, full time
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites.
About this opportunity
If you enjoy delivering solutions to solve problems, this is the role for you!
This is an excellent opportunity to join us as a Solution Architect in our Enterprise Risk Platform. To support our Enterprise Risk Platform Teams, LBG are looking for an expert Solution Architect to help us define Solution Architecture and design that unlocks and create opportunities to digitise & deliver excellent customer journeys, business outcomes and meets group strategic goals to simplify and redefine the technology landscape.
You’ll be helping develop our passionate people promote the architecture subject area through mentoring, coaching and participation in Agile ceremonies. They’ll be opportunity for collaborating with Product Owners, Platform Leads, Enterprise Architects & Engineers. You’ll create the Architectural runway for our Platform teams. Once agreed, our Solution Architects continuously invest in maintaining the Architecture runway underpinning our Platform teams.
You’ll be partnering with Enterprise Architecture & service providers to elaborate on solutions, their interfaces and validating technology assumptions. Whilst evaluating implementation alternatives and software lifecycle risks, assumptions, issues & dependencies.
You’ll also be 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.
Additionally you’ll work on technical design risks or issues and driving resolution through architectural or agile practises.
Why Lloyds Banking Group
From building a truly sustainable business to creating a place where people love to work, we need colleagues who are up for the challenge of our bold ambitions. Who are excited to push boundaries and make change happen. Together, we can grow with purpose.
What you’ll need
Google cloud architecture
Data architecture & Modelling
Experience of Risk/Risk services
Microservices, pipelines & containerisation
Event Driven Architectures & Streaming Platforms
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 underrepresented 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
30 days’ holiday, 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.
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 keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.
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.
This employer is a corporate member of myGwork - LGBTQ+ professionals, the business community for LGBTQ+ professionals, students, inclusive employers & anyone who believes in workplace equality.