Description
JOB TITLE: Solution Architect
SALARY: £70,000 - £78,800
LOCATION(S): Edinburgh and Leeds
HOURS: Full-time
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites
Ready to shape the future of investment platforms in the UK and drive transformation at scale?
About this opportunity
You'll join the Platform Savings Lab within Lloyds Banking Group, this is a key part of our infrastructure which allows individuals to invest in their future. This team is at the heart of transforming how we deliver investment and pension services, modernising systems and processes to align with the Lloyds way of doing things.
Day to day, you will:
1. Work closely with third-party suppliers like FNZ, managing relationships and ensuring delivery aligns with our strategic goals
2. Collaborate with Technical Applications Specialists, and Quality Engineers to support automation testing
3. Conduct impact analysis and ensure dependencies are in place across appropriate labs
4. Develop and maintain architectural roadmaps to guide transformation
5. Map out current systems and design future-state solutions
6. Support the integration and testing of FNZ-built components within our lab environments
Why Lloyds Banking Group
Like the modern Britain we serve, we’re evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We’re growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too.
What you’ll need:
7. Proven experience as a Solution Architect in complex environments
8. Strong stakeholder management skills, including working with third-party suppliers
9. Ability to map current and future states and develop transformation roadmaps
10. Experience collaborating with engineering and testing teams
11. Excellent communication and problem-solving skills
And any experience of these would be really useful:
12. Working with FNZ or similar investment platform providers
13. Knowledge of investments and pensions
14. Experience in large-scale transformation programmes
About working for us
Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We’re disability confident. So if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.
We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:
15. A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
16. An annual performance-related bonus
17. Share schemes including free shares
18. Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
19. 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
20. A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
Ready to start growing with purpose? Apply today.
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.
We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.
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.