Solution Architect

End Date
Monday 29 April 2024
Salary Range
£86,964 - £102,310
We support flexible working - click here for more information on flexible working options
Flexible Working Options
Flexibility in when hours are worked, Hybrid Working, Job Share
Job Description Summary
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Job Description
JOB TITLE: Solutions Architect
LOCATION: Leeds, Halifax or Manchester
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
Our Data-centres are the nerve centre of the organisation and where we host the banks most critical applications. LBG has taken the decision to build a pioneering datacentre to provide us with a right sized, modern and sustainable hosting location for the next 20 years and beyond.
To help us achieve this, LBG are looking to appoint a Senior Infrastructure Solution Architect with a passion for making a difference! Someone who can combine technical knowledge and analytical skills to visualise the bigger picture and help design our future hosting capabilities.
What will you be doing with us?
We believe that people don't fit succinctly into roles and above all, we value everyone's individual skills, experience, and knowledge.
Your role will include:
• Creating positive relationships with Enterprise Architecture, ensuring design decisions are aligned with overarching enterprise architectural standards and strategies
• Collaborating and leading with our platform teams to support the development and integration of roadmaps, defining migration methodologies to facilitate the movement of applications and infrastructure to the new datacentre
• Gaining a deep understanding of LBG environments and the systems integration challenges facing major transformation and migration initiatives
• Operating at an architectural level but also knowing how to design and deploy infrastructure change
• Working with technical delivery managers to support planning, costing, and brokering the interaction with SME’s
• Translating the complex and ambiguous requirements into clear and concise designs
• There will also be multiple elements of risk, compliance, and governance within the role, and you can share your knowledge to help deliver the best technical solutions for complex and significant business needs.
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 will too.
What you’ll need
• Strong organisational, analytical and system thinking skills
• Understanding and experience of architecture analysis techniques and processes
• Understanding and experience in systems and software engineering design across the whole lifecycle
• Understanding the Principles of Secure by Design
• Experience of Agile Development Principles and Methods
• Familiarity with DevOps and DevSecOps practices, processes, and toolsets
Technical Skills and Knowledge
• Mainframe technologies including IBM (International Business Machines) System Z, Unisys Dorado & Unisys Libra
• Midrange technologies including IBM Power Series (System I & System P), HP-UX & Sun Solaris
• Distributed / X86 technologies including Windows, RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) & Containers - both virtualized and Physical
• Hybrid and Public Cloud
• Traditional On Prem hosting and Cloud hosting (On -Premise and Off-Premise)
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
• 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.