Senior Solution Architect

Job Title: Senior Solution Architect    
Location: London 
Salary: £100,657 - £118,420
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

As Senior Solution Architect, you’ll help us define solution architecture and design that unlocks and create opportunities to digitise & deliver excellent customer journeys, business outcomes and meets group strategic goals to simplify and redefine the technology landscape.

You’ll be a key part of our leadership team within the Loans lab. We're a fun, dynamic and fast paced team who are at the forefront of leading the way for customers & colleagues in transforming & digitising the Lloyds Banking Group Retail Bank. The transformation culture the Loans lab lives by is to empower its co-located teams to build dynamic environments using agile methodology, providing outstanding customer experiences; and by driving innovative technology solutions that that drive iterative change across research, buy and servicing needs to market at pace.

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, evaluating implementation alternatives and software lifecycle risks, assumptions, issues & dependencies

• Promote adaptive design practises to drive collaboration across Loans and YCS feature teams and Platform teams centring on a common vision with continuous feedback

• Providing technical leadership within Feature teams

• Build efficient and reusable back-end systems and abstractions  

• Participate in Agile ceremonies, elicit requirements, shape & validate designs or prototypes that deliver customer outcomes that align to our target architecture.

• Leverage industry best-practise, frameworks, standards & policies in creating opportunities & value for our customers

• Supplies critical technical feedback to the financial investment process in order to obtain funding for key solution opportunities

• Support Product Owners & Platform Leads in identifying, articulating and impact assessing software & infrastructure currency risks or issues, offering options & recommendations on action planning & continuously ever-greening solutions/systems within the Platform

 What you’ll need  

• Experience in Spring, Spring IOC/DI 

• Experience of building Microservices 

• Strong experience of Rest Services and Core java 

• Strong understanding of Web technologies such as JavaScript, HTML, CSS, JQuery, JSON, XML

• Exposure to at least one of Liberty, Tomcat or Jetty Containers  

• Strong Understanding of Event Driven Architectures & Streaming Platforms

• Exposure to Cloud Platform as a Service or similar offerings

• Enjoys communicating & influencing collaborators with little or no technical knowledge, influencing their thinking on the art of the possible through technology.

• Substantive experiences defining architectural runways or solution architecture roadmaps for inclusive systems which span adaptive infrastructure domains at Digital-scale.

• Established experiences partnering with other collaborators such as Enterprise, Security, Data & Infrastructure architects to create customer value or address business problems.

It would be great if you also had

• Preferable experience with Python and ML technologies 

• Experience in Big Data and Hadoop ecosystem 

• Implementation experience in one of the cloud platforms - GCP, Azure or AWS

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:

• 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.