Solution Architect

Salary: £66,861 - £74,290 + excellent rewards package

Location: Edinburgh

Hours: Full - time

Working Pattern: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in an office site

At Lloyds Banking Group, we have a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper and to become the best Financial Services provider for our customers. Through our brands, our Group has a relationship with just about every household and community in the UK. We underpin the lives of millions of individuals and businesses and play a key role in helping to build a growing UK economy.

About the role:

In the Economic Crime Prevention (ECP) Platform, our mission is to reduce harm to our communities by enhancing the Group's capability to prevent, detect and respond to economic crime. The Platform sits within Consumer Relationships and plays a critical role in providing services across the whole Group.

What you'll be doing...

Our lab

The Customer Lab is one of four Labs that make up the ECP Platform.

It is vital for the Group to know who our customers are, the economic crime risk they pose, and whether they sit within our risk appetite in a timely and efficient way.

We provide Group wide solutions ensuring compliance with Sanctions, we use huge quantities of data to understand customer risk including international tax status, and we ensure fraudulent or previously exited customers do not access our products and services.

We constantly adapt our treatment strategies to reflect emerging trends and changes in risk appetite. We're also on an exciting journey to provide more real time solutions, which will enable all areas of the Group to offer new innovative products and services to Customers in a faster and more convenient way, whilst ensuring we keep our Customers, the Group and our wider Communities safe from harm.

About the role

We believe that people don't always fit neatly into roles, and we value everyone's individual skills, experience, and knowledge - it's what makes you unique!

We're looking to recruit a Solution Architect to work in the Customer Lab. This role is all about creating a cooperative, innovative, and dynamic partnership across architecture, engineering, and business communities so we're looking for a real team player.

We're creating an environment for positive learning and self-development for Solution Architects so you can be your best every day.

Here's how you'll make a difference:

• Collaborating with Product Owners, Platform Leads, Enterprise Architects & Engineers to build 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.
• Taking ownership of the technical design risks or issues and driving resolution through architectural or agile practises
• Leveraging industry best practise, frameworks, standards & policies in creating opportunities & value for our customers.
• 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.

What we're looking for...

Key skills, knowledge and experience required to be successful in this role:

• Creative and innovative, with ability to think 'creatively' to solve problems and assess impacts in a complex and inter-dependent systems architecture
• 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.
• Strong knowledge of microservices, containerisation, cloud native and event-driven design concepts.
• Good understanding of API standards, security and gateway patterns
• Good understanding of data technologies - SQL/NoSQL, Big Data
• Good knowledge of cloud based architecture
• Strong Software Engineering and Architecture background

Desirable knowledge, skills & experience:

• Experience working with security and infrastructure teams.
• Experience in Economic Crime Prevention.
• Familiarity with Agile methodology and of working as part of an Agile multi-disciplinary team
• TOGAF qualifications or working towards qualification

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.

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance
• 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

If you're excited by the thought of becoming part of our team?

Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive?

Apply today and find out more.

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