Senior Solution Architect
Senior Solution Architect
Apply locations: Bristol Harbourside
Time type: Full time
Posted on: Posted 2 Days Ago
Job requisition id: 114414
End Date: Wednesday 15 January 2025
Salary Range: £86,964 - £102,310
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Flexible Working Options: Hybrid Working, Job Share
Job Description Summary:
Job Title: Senior Solution Architect
Location: Bristol
Salary: £78,810 - £106,400
Hours: Full time
Working Pattern: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in office.
About us:
We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we’re shaping finance for good. We’re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you!
About this opportunity:
Become a part of Commercial Lending as a Senior Solution Architect and seize a unique chance to influence the future of digital banking. Our mission to build a bank of the future is driven by our extensive transformation programme. This role offers you the opportunity to work on ambitious projects within our Commercial Lending Platform, focusing on delivering exceptional digital journeys for our clients. If you're passionate about customer success, innovation, and leading transformative technology initiatives, this is the perfect opportunity for you.
Help us enhance customer experiences for our Commercial Cards clients. You'll play a key role in delivering reliable, scalable, and feature-packed software solutions. Make a real impact on millions of lives through our well-known brands like Halifax, Bank of Scotland, and Lloyds Bank.
This is a time of growth for the platform. We're passionate about building a diverse, collaborative, empowered and skilled team. We're on the journey to simplify and modernise our tech stack and innovate using new technologies. We're keen to move towards our target state with a cloud first (private and public) approach in our hosting strategy and to transform our systems from monolith to microservices whilst decommissioning our legacy estate.
What you’ll do:
* Collaborate with Product Owners, Platform Leads, Enterprise Architects & Engineers to create the Architectural runway for our Platform teams.
* Partner with Enterprise Architecture & service providers to elaborate on solutions, their interfaces and validating technology assumptions.
* Provide analysis of options and deliver end-to-end solution designs using relevant architectural building blocks.
* Own the technical design risks or issues and drive resolution through architectural or agile practices.
* Leverage industry best practices, frameworks, standards & policies in creating opportunities & value for our customers.
* Contribute to the financial investment process to obtain funding for key solution opportunities.
* Set guiding principles and solution success criteria for platform capability or feature development across our Platforms.
* Provide oversight & foster built-in quality, decoupled & modernised architectures.
* Support Product Owners & Platform Leads in identifying, articulating and impact assessing software & infrastructure risks or issues.
* Lead and direct a diverse workforce to achieve the business strategy, inspiring people to achieve their full commitment.
What you’ll need:
* Experience in systems engineering or solution architecture with appreciation of software development processes.
* Understanding & experience in applying different project, architecture, life cycling and risk management methods.
* Strong understanding of solution & software architecture patterns.
* Experience in defining and/or operating environments embracing Agile Architecture.
* Experience of systems or solutions development, change lifecycle, release management at web-scale.
* Experience in partnering & collaborating with Enterprise, Security, Data & Infrastructure architects.
* Proficient & demonstrable experience in leading activities associated to Architectural Governance, Risk Management or Compliance processes.
* Familiarity with Architectural Frameworks such as TOGAF, Archimate, Cloud Architectures or similar.
* Ability to understand how and where third party products could be deployed.
* Prior experience in Mobile native, Cross platform/Hybrid App, API Gateway Management and microservices domain.
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’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:
* A generous pension contribution of up to 15%.
* An 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.
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.
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