Description
JOB TITLE: Solution Architect
SALARY: £70,929 - £80,000
LOCATION: Edinburgh
HOURS: Full time
WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in our Edinburgh office
About this opportunity…
Great opportunity for a Solution Architect to join our Payment Services Platform. We’re looking for an experienced Solution Architect with strong expertise in Java, Spring Framework, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to lead the design and delivery of cloud-native enterprise solutions. This role requires a strategic problem solver who can balance technical leadership with hands-on solutioning, ensuring alignment with business goals and enterprise architecture standards. This is a great opportunity to help us create a fully in-house developed gateway to SWIFT Scheme to evolve into a solution fit for the long term future of Payments.
About us…
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 do…
1. Design and architect scalable, secure, and resilient solutions using Java, Quarkus, and GCP services.
2. Define and enforce architecture principles, patterns, and procedures across the platform.
3. Lead technical design sessions, architecture reviews, and solution walkthroughs with different customer groups.
4. Collaborate with engineering teams, product owners, and stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
5. Drive adoption of GCP-native services such as Cloud Run, GKE, Pub/Sub, BigQuery, ProgressDB and Cloud Functions.
6. Ensure solutions meet non-functional requirements including performance, reliability, security, and compliance.
7. Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and guidance to development teams.
8. Contribute to DevOps strategy, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure automation using tools like Terraform or Deployment Manager.
9. Stay current with GCP innovations, emerging technologies, and industry trends.
What you’ll need…
10. Proven experience, ideally as a Solution Architect in enterprise-scale environments and should have experience in architecting greenfield development projects
11. Strong experience with Java, (bonus points for Quarkus) and UI languages React JS and typescripts and Testing Framework including Automation tools like selenium and playwright
12. Having hands on experience in migration experience in legacy application migration
13. Deep understanding of GCP architecture, services, and deployment models or equivalent of AWS/Azure cloud skills
14. Experience with microservices, API design, and event-driven architectures especially Kafka Streams
15. Familiarity with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and orchestration using GKE.
16. Knowledge of CI/CD, DevOps practices, and infrastructure as code.
It would be great if you also had any of the following…
17. Experience to Banking and Finance Industry along with legacy migration knowledge and payments.
18. Understanding of Cloud technology and usage of components and tools in GCP/AZURE/AWS
19. Experience in componentising the different tools in messaging framework and event driven patterns and other design experience.
20. Experience in presenting, reviewing, auditing the papers and aligning the patterns with bank expertise and stakeholders.
21. Usage of AI tools and techniques for identification approaches in bringing up the application and automation direction.
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…
22. A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
23. An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance
24. Share schemes including free shares
25. Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
26. 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
27. A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
If you’re excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We’d love to hear from you!
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.