Overview
Solution Architect role at Lloyds Banking Group, based in Manchester. Hybrid work pattern: spending at least two days per week, or 40% of time, at the Manchester office.
About this opportunity: The Smarter Journeys Lab sits within the Colleague Channels Platform. Our mission is to create reusable colleague and customer solutions that are intuitive and automated, underpinned by a modern infrastructure that enables a flexible and responsive workforce. This Platform sits within Consumer Relationships and provides services across the Group.
What you’ll be doing
The Solution Architect ensures products are fit for purpose and meet quality standards. You’ll deliver reliable, scalable software to customers and colleagues, and be responsible for design, architecture decisions, and defining end-to-end impacts (functional and non-functional). You should communicate with different stakeholders from business partners to the engineering community. As a Senior Solution Architect, you’ll lead and direct a diverse workforce to achieve the business strategy and inspire commitment.
* Collaborate with Product Owners, Platform Leads, Enterprise Architects & Engineers to create the Architectural runway for Platform teams.
* Provide analysis of options and deliver end-to-end solution designs using architectural building blocks; produce designs enabling frequent incremental customer value delivery.
* Promote adaptive design practices to drive collaboration across Platform teams with a common vision and continuous feedback.
* Own technical design risks or issues and drive resolution through architectural or agile practices.
* Set guiding principles and solution success criteria for platform capability or feature development.
* Take designs through governance with meaningful architectural artefacts and engage engineering and architecture cohorts as needed during design.
* Provide oversight to foster built-in quality, decoupled and modernised architectures.
* Make significant improvements to short-term or long-term business performance by recommending authoritative technical and/or professional solutions.
What you’ll need
* Strong experience of solution design, security & resilience patterns.
* Strong knowledge of microservice architecture, containerisation, event-driven architectures & streaming platforms.
* Understanding of building applications through containerised microservices-based architectures, with knowledge of cloud methodologies.
* Strong understanding of API standards, security and gateway patterns.
* Strong understanding of data technologies – SQL/NoSQL, Big Data.
* Knowledge of cloud architecture and platform as a service, particularly GCP.
* Understanding of AI/ML concepts and models including Agentic AI.
* Understanding of Data Architecture & Modelling concepts.
* Familiarity with Architectural Frameworks such as TOGAF, Archimate, Software patterns or similar.
* Experience with Cloud patterns and related technologies (preferably GCP), CI/CD (Jenkins, Harness), Containerisation, Orchestration, IAM, VPC, GKE.
* Exposure to monitoring/logging tools such as Dynatrace and Splunk.
* Solid understanding of networking, firewalls, load balancers, and cloud security patterns.
* Experience with API Management tools such as IBM API-Connect, Apigee X or similar.
About working for us
We are committed to diversity, equity and inclusion and creating an environment where everyone can thrive, learn and develop. We offer reasonable workplace adjustments in recruitment and throughout the process, including disability-related accommodations.
We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, including a generous pension contribution, annual bonus, share schemes, lifestyle benefits, 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, and wellbeing and parental leave initiatives.
Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference? Join our journey.
Compensation and seniority
* Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
* Employment type: Full-time
* Job function: Finance and Information Technology
* Industries: Banking and Financial Services
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