Solution Architect, Lloyds
Intelligent Automation
£78.8-87.6k
Plus an annual performance-related bonus and Share schemes including free shares
2+ days a week in office
Retail and commercial bank
Be an early applicant
Retail and commercial bank
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
£78.8-87.6k
Plus an annual performance-related bonus and Share schemes including free shares
2+ 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
- An ideal solution architect will need to be able to display broad and deep technical experience with a passion for engineering excellence
- We are looking for dynamic and adaptable individual able to use and learn new skills
- You’ll be curious about technology and understanding how things work and influence positively – demonstrating the right values and behaviours and encouraging this in team members
- Prior experience in a solution architecture position, strong experience of solution design, security and resilience patterns
- Strong knowledge of microservices, containerisation, cloud native and event-driven design concepts
- Good knowledge of infrastructure and security architecture practices and concerns
- Have played an active part in architecture and design governance
- Experience of API Gateways & Management Platforms such as IBM API Connect, IBM DataPower, Apigee, Microsoft Azure API Manager, or similar
- Cloud Platform as a Service or similar offerings – preferably GCP
- Appreciates Architectural Frameworks such as TOGAF, Archimate, Software patterns or similar
- Experience in the banking and finance industry
- Experience in agile / iterative design working practices
Desirable
- Experience with Process Automation
- Preferable experience with Python and Big Data technologies including ML
- Exposure to open-source technologies and frameworks
- Knowledge of AI
What the job involves
- 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 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
- 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
- Leveraging industry best practise, frameworks, standards & policies in creating opportunities & value for our customers
- Contributing to the financial investment process 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 & foster 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/systems within 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
- This exciting opportunity is within our Intelligent Process Automation lab for a Solution Architect
- You’ll lead, direct and shape approaches to solving technical challenges and translating business requirements into technical solutions
- You’ll work in a highly collaborative way to drive efforts to create, build, support and improve our software working closely with the product and engineering teams with lots of exciting new challenges
- You’ll be a core contributor to ensure good quality and engineering practices are followed in accordance with engineering transformation strategy
- Collaborate with Product Owners, Platform Leads, Enterprise Architects & Engineers to create the Architectural runway for your lab
- Be responsible for our application architecture and the delivery of our engineering design deliverables and managing architecture decisions through formal governance processes
- Manage the IT Roadmap, driving best practice initiatives
- Ensure IT compliance and governance policies are met
- Partner with fellow solution architects & service providers to elaborate on solutions, their interfaces and validating technology assumptions, evaluating implementation alternatives and software lifecycle risks, assumptions, issues & dependencies
- Provide 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
- Promote adaptive design practises to drive collaboration across Platform teams centring on a common vision with continuous feedback
- Capture technical design risks or issues and drive resolution through architectural or agile practices
Application process
- End Date: January 31, 2025
Salary benchmarks
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 – including for its handling of PPI complaints in 2015, and the 2009 European Commission ruling that forced it to part ways with TSB – but it has nonetheless stood the test of time and worked to build back its public reputation in the wake of these setbacks.
Of the company’s 26 million customers, over 18 million of them are online, making it the largest UK digital bank. 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 current 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.
Recently, Lloyds Bank has shown great interest in facilitating innovation in the industry, joining as a partner on FinTech Action Labs (a FinTech accelerator programme) to bring its industry expertise to early-stage FinTechs. As well as investment in digital transformation and AI, the company is enhancing its wealth product and corporate banking offerings, as well as expanding its partnerships with digital banking companies.
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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 values
- We trust each other to achieve more together. We listen to, and are honest with, each other. We take things on, see them through, and give others the space and support to do the same.
- We put people first, and empower our colleagues to go the extra mile for our customers and communities. We treat everyone as individuals, and we don’t put processes ahead of real people’s needs.
- We embrace our differences to value everyone. We seek out diverse perspectives in order to learn about people’s different and changing needs, and to see how we can best support these.
- We’re bold and take action to drive the best outcomes for our customers. We champion ideas that move us forward, and we innovate for better results. We challenge things that aren’t right and make it our job to change them.
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
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Leadership
Charlie Nunn
(Group Chief Executive, not founder)Spent nine years at HSBC, including as Group Head of Wealth Management and Digital, and as CEO of Wealth and Personal Banking.
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