Solution Architect

Job Description

End Date Sunday 16 October 2022 Salary Range £61,176 - £99,411 We support agile workingclick here for more information on agile working options.Agile Working Options Other Agile Working Arrangements / Open to Discussion Job Description Summary Here at Lloyds Banking Group, our passionate Platform teams have the autonomy to incrementally design, engineer, release, and operate one or more technology-enabled services for our customers. This is not about reporting linesits about having the rightpeople with the right expertise all working together to be the best in class. This is a vital step-change as we transform the group.To support our Commercial Lending Platform teams, we are looking for an experienced Solution Architect to help us define and design solution architecture that unlocks and creates opportunities to deliver excellent customer journeys and business outcomes, whilstmeeting our strategic goals to simplify and modernise our technology landscape. Job Description Solution ArchitectLloyds Banking GroupLondonSalary & Benefits: £61,176 - £84,117 (depending on experience) base salary, plus annual personal bonus, 15% employer pension contribution (when you put in 6%), 4% flexible cash pot, private medical insurance, 30 days holiday plus bankholidays. We also offer flexible working hours, agile working practices and regular home working. We aim to ensure you have a good work-life balance and positive mental health.What will I be doingYou will will play criticalrole in designing solutions that can provide continuous flow of value to our customers and will be responsible for:

• Collaborating with Product Owners, Platform Leads, Enterprise Architects & Engineers to create the Architectural runway for our Platform teams. Once baselined, our Solution Architects continuously invest in maintaining the Architecture runway underpinningour 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 as well as owning the technical design risks or issues and driving resolution through architectural or agile practises.
• Participating in Agile ceremonies, elicit requirements, shape & validate designs or prototypes that deliver customer outcomes that align to our target architecture.
• Demonstrating industry best practise, frameworks, standards & policies in creating opportunities & value for our customers. Moreover, Help develop our dedicated people evangelise the architecture team through mentoring, coaching and participationin Agile ceremonies.
• Contributing to the financial investment process to obtain funding for key solution opportunities and setting guiding principles and solution success criteria for platform capability or feature development across our Platforms.
• Providing oversight & develop 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 Evergreening solutions/systemswithin the Platform.
• Supporting Product Owners & Platform Leads on the technical aspect of activities linked with Platform financial estimation, spend or risk management processes in line with the platform roadmap.
• Help develop our dedicated people evangelise the architecture team through mentoring, coaching and participation in Agile ceremonies.

Heres where youll make a difference:Your contribution will be instrumental to our strategy of simplifying, modernising, and de-risking the Group technology landscape, ensuring value for customers and shareholders. This is a key roledriving the long-term sustainability and integrity of the organisation.What we need from you:We need a leader in Solution Architecture who understands the challenges of modern architecture. You will build a compelling strategicvision and will understand a wide array of technology implications including people and process, bringing this to your holistic view of design.You will ideally have previous career experience in software or infrastructure engineering and willbe well placed to define and sell your vision for Engineers, Architects, and Product Owners alike.Experience were looking for:We are looking for applicants who

Are experienced working in multi-disciplinary product, feature or platform teams and thrive in acquiring & applying findings to create customer & business value, while also excited at the prospect of changing culture by motivating change throughnew ideas with teams or like-minded people, encouraging each other to find the right technology solutions.

Have experiences in systems engineering or solution architecture with appreciation of software development processes such as Behaviour Driven Development & Test Driven Development - Including familiarity of Architectural Frameworks such as TOGAF,Archimate, Cloud Architectures or similar.

Proficient & demonstrable experience in leading activities associated to Architectural Governance, Risk Management or Compliance processes.

Demonstrate strong understanding of solution & software architecture patterns and possess the ability to understand and interpret complex requirements for technology.

Have experience in defining and/or operating environments embracing Agile Architecture, Emergent & Intentional architecture techniques. Alongside this, have worked with partners to influence their thinking about what is possible through technologyinnovation.Strong experien