Senior Solution Architect, Lloyds
£104.7-123.2k
OTE
+ Annual performance-related bonus + 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
£104.7-123.2k
OTE
+ Annual performance-related bonus + 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
- As a Senior Solution Architect, you thrive talking with stakeholders and designing innovative solutions that meet their requirements
- Your designs are clean, easy to comprehend and remain cost effective to change over time
- You enjoy designing for a cloud environment and know how to benefit from elasticity and resilience whilst remaining secure
- More specifically we’d like you to have much of the following, but it's ok if you don't check every box:
- Proficient in interpreting diverse stakeholder requirements and transforming them into coherent, innovative designs that align with the strategic objectives of the organisation
- Skilled at communicating designs to engineering teams and helping them break work down into deliverables
- Excellent diagramming techniques for both data and system modelling
- Experienced at designing performant and scalable systems that are cost effective to maintain and operate
- Experienced with event-driven, restful, micro-service architectures as well as the SOLID design principles
- Experienced at data modelling and domain segregation
- Experienced at designing data pipelines for cloud platforms (ideally GCP)
- Good at articulating architecture trade-offs and selecting architectures according to best fit
- Follow a security first architecture approach
- Knowledge of Java, OOP, data structures and algorithms
- Have a working knowledge of Agile and be familiar with its values and principles
- Enjoy mentoring and motivating the teams around you
- Have a growth mindset
What the job involves
- The Senior Solution Architect orchestrates complex solution architectures to achieve key outcomes, aligning with our technology strategy
- They enable teams to deliver efficiently by shaping the solution architecture for our lab and collaborating with Product Owners, engineering teams, and Enterprise Architects
- We're redefining what a bank is from the inside out. Our technology and our culture are changing to craft a true engineering-led organisation
- Become part of our diverse team, and you'll experience a rare opportunity to make a difference to the lives of millions through our brands like Halifax, Bank of Scotland, Lloyds, and Scottish Widows (among others)
- Our flat teams will encourage and empower you to make decisions, build positive relationships, and deliver a meaningful difference to our customers, colleagues, and communities
- Our mentors will nurture your talent and encourage you to further develop yourself and your career
- Our mission is to securely manage customer data for Lloyds Banking Group, ensuring it is accessible for authorized purposes while maintaining performance, resilience, and data integrity. We also strive to uphold top-tier engineering standards
- HOURS: Full time - 35 hours per week
Application process
- End Date: Wednesday 03 December 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.
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, 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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