Senior Solutions Architect, Lloyds
£92.7-120k
Plus annual performance related bonus and share schemes including free shares
More information about location
2-3 days a week in office
Retail and commercial bank
Be an early applicant
Retail and commercial bank
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
£92.7-120k
Plus annual performance related bonus and share schemes including free shares
More information about location
2-3 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To support families and businesses, helping them to take the next step, whatever that may be.
Role
Who you are
- To thrive in this role, you’ll need a mix of architectural, technical and leadership skills that allow you to design secure, scalable and futureready enterprise solutions while working effectively across teams
- Extensive experience leading the architecture of complex, multiteam or multisystem solutions that meet nonfunctional, security, resilience and performance needs
- Must have had experience with writing code but doesn’t necessarily need to be a current Engineer
- Proven experience defining and maintaining architectural runway to inform product roadmaps and guide teams towards strategic technology direction
- Strong familiarity with enterprise architecture standards, governed patterns and endorsed technologies, with the judgement to manage exceptions appropriately
- Experience partnering with Product, Engineering and Enterprise Architecture to align stakeholders and navigate complex design decisions
- Handson experience derisking new patterns using spikes, prototypes and reference architectures, and helping teams adopt them effectively
- Significant exposure to modern engineering and cloudnative practices (microservices, CI/CD, DevOps, automation) to ensure operability and scale
- Experience coaching architects and engineers through technology evaluation and solution design
- The ability to anticipate and manage complex risk, compliance, nonfunctional and operational requirements early in the design lifecycle
What the job involves
- The Transport Platform sits within the wider Consumer Lending business and plays a vital role in helping Britain keep moving
- We deliver customerfocused solutions that make it easier to access vehicles, maintenance and related services, including seamless digital account management. We're also committed to supporting the Group and the wider UK with its sustainability ambitions
- We’re transforming our core technology architecture - simplifying legacy systems, modernising our digital journeys, adopting microservices and cloudnative engineering practices, and building a new data ecosystem
- We’re also reshaping the technical capabilities of our people, embedding DevOps, Agile delivery and modern engineering at scale
- As a Lead Solutions Architect, you’ll own endtoend architectural direction across multiple delivery teams
- Partnering with Product Owners and Engineering Leads, you’ll ensure our solution designs are aligned to business strategy, technology strategy and our longterm target architectures - while keeping service quality, resilience, sustainability and engineering excellence at the forefront
- Leading architectural strategy for complex, multiteam initiatives—designing, governing and integrating solutions that advance platform and Group objectives. Shape targetstate architectures across the lab, platform and wider enterprise
- Collaborating with Product Owners, Customer Journey Managers and Engineering Leads to convert strategy into executable roadmaps, manage technical debt, establish clear nonfunctional baselines, and create space for teams to mature towards the target architecture
- Engineering solutions that are reliable, scalable, performant and secure, simplifying designs and standardising on endorsed technologies and patterns. Influence Architecture and Engineering communities to drive reuse, interoperability and prevent fragmentation
- Adopting and maturing Group tooling, controls and architectural guardrails to unlock pace, quality and safety at scale. Ensure architectural decisions are consumable by engineering teams. As we evolve, help codify patterns into automation and provide reference implementations
- Shaping portfolio intent early, exploring options and tradeoffs, identifying dependencies and risks, and ensuring roadmaps remain valuefocused, feasible and resilient
- Taking handson ownership of emerging patterns and technologies, proving approaches through spikes, prototypes and reference architectures. Publish consumable guidance that accelerates adoption across teams and platforms. Act as a Chapter Lead where needed
- Embedding architectural practices with Agility Leads to increase throughput, reduce total cost of ownership and sustain quality—driving a consistent architectural framework across the platform
- Ensuring strong architectural custodianship, building solutions that align with operational excellence, regulatory controls, security requirements and cost. Support run/operate teams through clear interfaces, SLOs and shared ownership of reliability
- Growing organisational capability, coaching architects and engineers in solution design, systems thinking and technology strategy. Contribute to hiring standards, talent attraction and succession planning
- Investing in your own development, maintaining broad architectural expertise and deep domain knowledge while rolemodelling curiosity and continuous learning
Application process
- End Date: Tuesday 17 March 2026
Our take
Lloyds Bank, part of Lloyds Banking Group, began operations back in 1765 and is nowadays one of the UK’s leading retail and commercial banks. As with many leading banks, the company has dealt with its share of controversy, but it has nonetheless stood the test of time and worked to build back its public reputation in the wake of these setbacks.
As part of its ongoing digital transformation, the company is seeking to put the cloud at the front of its services and systems, and has cited intentions to invest heavily in overhauling its technology infrastructure. All this seeks to serve the modern banking customer, and to compete with the fast-increasing number of alternative banking options appearing on the market.
On top of this, Lloyds Bank has shown great interest in facilitating innovation in the industry, joining as a partner on "FinTech Action Labs" to bring its industry expertise to early-stage FinTechs. The company continues to enhance its online and mobile services (it is the UK's biggest mobile bank), as well as expanding its partnerships with digital banking companies.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-1% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Flex cash: This is 4% of your basic salary and can be used to spend on the benefits of your choice, or you can choose to take it as a cash top up in your monthly salary.
- A generous holiday allowance: You’ll be eligible for a minimum of 22 days holiday (excluding bank holidays), rising to 30 days based on length of service and grade.
- A flexible way of working: Whether you want flexibility over your location or when you log on, together we can create an approach that works for you and for the business.
- Family leave: Up to 63 weeks of maternity or adoption leave. Statutory maternity or adoption pay is available for 39 weeks, and 20 weeks will be enhanced to the equivalent of full pay. Partners can have six weeks of fully paid paternity leave.
- Health insurance: Our company funded Private Medical Benefit provides all colleagues with access to good quality medical care, including accommodation, nursing care and specialist advice.
- Colleague Offers: Get discounts on everything from electrical items to cinema tickets and weekly food shopping. You can share this benefit with up to ten family members or friends.
- Financial products: Take advantage of our great financial products, some at a discounted rate, including current accounts, home and car insurance and loans.
- Share plans: Participate in Sharematch and receive matching shares of up to £45 a month from the company, and you can choose to participate in Sharesave, our combined savings and share option plan.
- Pension: We offer a generous pension plan, with all joiners being automatically enrolled in our 'Your Tomorrow' scheme. You can decide how much you save and get a say in where your contributions are invested.
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
Leadership
Charlie Nunn
(Group Chief Executive)Spent nine years at HSBC, including as Group Head of Wealth Management and Digital, and as CEO of Wealth and Personal Banking.
Salary benchmarks
We don't have enough data yet to provide salary benchmarks for this role.
Submit your salary to help other candidates with crowdsourced salary estimates.
Share this job
View 63 more jobs at Lloyds