Senior Solution Architect

Job Title

Senior Solution Architect – Lloyds Banking Group

Bristol, United Kingdom

£72,702 – £80,780 (annual)

Full time, Hybrid – 40% (two days) in office per week.

Lead the solution architecture of products that deliver customer value, ensuring quality, resilience, financial and technical objectives are met. Provide modernised architectures, align with industry standards, and guide engineering teams on technical directions.

• Lead the solution architecture of solutions for products that deliver customer value and meet our quality, resilience, financial and technical objectives.
• Analyse options and implementation alternatives to propose solutions and create designs using relevant architectural building blocks delivering modernised architectures.
• Align with architectural standards, best practices, 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.
• Ensure solutions are resilient, secure, and scalable, meeting key non‑functional requirements which align with enterprise architecture and our technology strategy.
• Identify and help mitigate risks associated with solution architecture driving resolution through architectural or agile practices.
• Identify shortcomings, suggest improvements and implement approved revisions to current compliance processes, systems and procedures within assigned unit and/or field.
• Make a significant improvement on short‑term or long‑term business performance by recommending authoritative technical and/or professional solutions.
• Manage various team activities, ensure regulatory compliance, liaise with internal risk management and support compliance policy.

• Hands on experience building complex systems with modern programming languages.
• Technical Proficiency:
  Deep understanding of various technologies, including cloud services, modern application architectures, cybersecurity, and new technologies like AI.
• Systems Thinking and Architectural Craft:
  Ability to understand and model complex systems, recognize patterns, and craft scalable, secure and robust architectures.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate with collaborators, explain technical concepts to non‑technical audiences, and lead teams.
• Strong delivery leadership skills to guide teams, make strategic decisions, and drive projects to completion.
• Excellent knowledge of data technology of complex enterprise systems, modern cloud‑hosted data solutions, integration and data and event stream technologies.

• Hands on experience with infrastructure as code such as Terraform, Chef, Puppet, Ansible.
• Experience in building CI/CD pipelines to deliver changes incrementally to production.
• Exposure and/or Experience with cloud technologies Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or others (AWS, ICP/OCP, Azure).

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%.
• Annual bonus award, subject to Group performance.
• Share schemes including free shares.
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping.
• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top.
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies.

Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more!

At Lloyds Banking Group, we’re driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you’ll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you’ll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

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We’re focused on creating a values‑led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.