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End Date: Wednesday 29 October 2025 | Salary Range: £81,999 - £91,110 | Location: London | Hours: Full time | Pattern: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in our London office
Why Lloyds?
Investing billions in people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever‑changing needs of our 26 million customers. Join us on our journey and you will too.
What You’ll Do
* Lead the solution architecture of products that deliver customer value and meet our quality, resilience, financial and technical objectives.
* Support the definition of a forward‑look solution architecture within the QBR planning horizon to inform product roadmaps.
* Analyse options and implementation alternatives to propose solutions and create designs using relevant architectural building blocks.
* Align with architectural standards, protocols, principles and patterns and support the development of local standards and patterns as required.
* 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.
What You’ll Need
* 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
It Would Be Great If You Also Had
* Payments architecture and integration (transaction processing, authorisation, reconciliation)
* UK Domestic Payments (Faster Payments, BACS, Cheques), International Payments (SWIFT/SEPA)
Benefits
* Generous pension contribution of up to 15%
* Annual bonus award, subject to Group performance
* Share schemes including free shares
* Discounted shopping and other lifestyle benefits
* 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
* Range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
Working For Us
We’re inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We welcome applications from under‑represented groups and provide reasonable adjustments where needed.
EEO Statement
We keep your data safe. We ask for confidential or sensitive information only once you have formally been invited to an interview or accepted a verbal offer, at which point we run background checks. We always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.
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