Solution Architect

Job Description

End Date Tuesday 25 July 2023 Salary Range £85,255 - £100,300 We support agile working – click here for more information on agile working options.Agile Working Options Flexibility in when hours are worked Job Description Summary . Job DescriptionJOB TITLE:Solution Architect, Enterprise Risk PlatformSALARY:£66,861 - £100,300LOCATION(S): Leeds or EdinburghHOURS: [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 Leeds or Edinburgh OfficeAbout this opportunity…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 thatunlocks and create opportunities to digitise & deliver excellent customer journeys, business outcomes and meets group strategic goals to simplify and redefine the technology landscape.You can expect to be doing…

• Helping develop our passionate people promote the architecture subject area through mentoring, coaching and participation in Agile ceremonies.
• Collaborating with Product Owners, Platform Leads, Enterprise Architects & Engineers to create the Architectural runway for our Platform teams. Once agreed, our Solution Architects continuously invest in maintaining the Architecture runway underpinning ourPlatform teams.
• Partnering 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.
• 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.
• Supplying critical technical feedback to the financial investment process in order 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 & champion 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 ever-greening solutions/systems within thePlatform.

We’re on an exciting journey, we’re already the largest provider of digital banking products in the UK, with over 12 million active online customers and nearly 8 million active mobile banking customers. It means a big opportunity for you to be part ofground-breaking transformation and it means there’s never been a more exciting time to join!We understand no one can be an expert in every aspect of Solution Architecture. However, if you understand modern architecture and have a systems engineering / solution architect background, we’d like to hear from you.Specifically, we’re looking for people who have experience of…

• Google cloud architecture
• Data architecture & Modelling
• Experience of Risk/Risk services
• Microservices, pipelines & containerisation
• Event Driven Architectures & Streaming Platforms

Our focus is to ensure were 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 dedicatedWorking 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

If you’re excited by the thought of becoming part of our Solution Architecture team, get in touch. We’d love to hear from you.Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive Apply today and find out more.At Lloyds Banking Group, were 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 youll have a key role to play in shaping the financialservices of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means youll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.We keep your data safe. So, well 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. Well alwaysexplain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person. Were focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed t