Solution Architect, Lloyds
£70.9-80k
2 days a week in office
Retail and commercial bank
Job no longer available
Retail and commercial bank
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
£70.9-80k
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
- Microservices and event-driven architecture
- API design and integration patterns
- Domain-driven design and service orchestration
- Java, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Spring Security
- Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, IBM MQ
- Jenkins, UrbanCode, Maven, Git, CI/CD pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes, container orchestration
- Experience of either Azure, AWS, GCP, private cloud platform
- Oracle, SQL Server, MongoDB, BigQuery
- TLS v1.2+, secure credential handling
Desirable
- Payments architecture and integration (transaction processing, authorisation, reconciliation)
- UK Domestic Payments (Faster Payments, BACS, Cheques), International Payments (SWIFT/SEPA)
What the job involves
- Great opportunity for a Solution Architect to join our Payments Platform to orchestrate complex solution architectures with a broad architectural significance for key outcomes or epics by defining the architectures and designs that deliver our key outcomes aligning with our technology strategy
- You’ll play a substantive role in enabling teams to deliver at pace by shaping the solution architecture forward look for a lab or platform, and partner with Product Owners engineering teams and Enterprise architects
- Lead the solution architecture of solutions for products that deliver customer value and meet our quality, resilience, financial and technical objectives
- Support the definition a solution architecture forward look within the QBR planning horizon to inform the product roadmaps. Considering currency and technical debt and key outcomes and epics, work ahead to shape the technical activities needed that allow teams to deliver and meet our architecture roadmaps in support of the product vision
- Analyse options and implementation alternatives to propose solutions and create designs using relevant architectural building blocks delivering modernised architectures
- Align with architectural standards, protocols, principles and patterns and support the development of local standards and patterns as required. Where it is not possible to align with standards and patterns ensure an agreed position is reached, and technical debt or non-compliance is captured
- Provide technical direction or guidance to engineering teams on architectural solutions
- Research and recommend new technologies and tools to support solution development
- Ensure solutions are resilient, secure, and scalable, meeting key non-functional requirements which align with enterprise architecture and our technology strategy
- Participate in solution reviews to ensure compliance with standards
- Identify and help mitigate risks associated with solution architecture driving resolution through architectural or agile practices
- Contribute to innovation and continuous improvement in solution design and delivery
- Deliver solutions in an agile manner, participating in agile ceremonies and using agile tools, working with feature teams in the flow of the work, ensuring iterative development and seeking continuous feedback to enable incremental customer value delivery
- Maintain and enhance technical skills sufficiently to provide technical guidance and stay current with technologies industry trends and standards
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.
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