Solution Architect

JOB TITLE: Solution Architect

SALARY: £68,202 - £75,780

LOCATION: Halifax

Hours: Full Time

WORKING PATTERN: We adopt hybrid working style which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our Halifax office.

About this opportunity

A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a Solution Architect to join our team. In this role, you'll recommend ways to improve support for operations by changing policies, processes, standards, and practices. You'll identify and evaluate complex, expertise-led solutions to meet our business needs.

You'll deliver prescribed outcomes for a designated area, using risk management systems to ensure we aren't exposed to undue risks. Conducting research using primary data sources and selecting relevant information will enable you to analyse key themes and trends. You'll also organize and prepare complex documents using multiple computer applications, such as Microsoft Office, while gathering and summarizing data for special reports.

We value continuous improvement, so you'll identify shortcomings and suggest improvements to existing processes, systems, and procedures. With guidance from a project/programme manager, you'll deliver a plan for a small element of a change management programme. Personal development is important to us, and you'll have the opportunity to grow your own capabilities by pursuing and investing in personal development opportunities.

In this role, you'll provide primary supervision to a team performing transactional work or supervise a small group performing junior professional tasks. You'll set medium-term objectives and take responsibility for implementing a team's performance management systems with guidance from senior colleagues. You'll define, deliver, and adapt specialized products/services to meet customer needs by selecting the best possible approaches available within established systems. Supporting others by using agile methodologies and practices will also be part of your responsibilities. Additionally, you'll highlight shortcomings and suggest improvements in current IT Security processes, systems, and procedures within your assigned business area.

Why Lloyds Banking Group.

We're on an exciting transformation journey and there could not be a better time to join us. The investments we're making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive.

What you’ll need:

• Proven experience in developing software solutions using Java or any Object-Oriented Programming languages for complex and large-scale architecture solutions.

• Proficient with relational and NoSQL databases, with strong knowledge of data stores, data warehouses, big data technologies, ETL, and data lakes, and experienced in cloud infrastructure data solutions.

• Experienced in developing software solutions across various technologies, delivering capabilities that meet security and performance standards.

• Experienced in Microservices, event-based architecture, and API design, with strong knowledge of Domain-Driven Design.

• Passionate about leveraging technology to solve complex problems and improve platform efficiency

Here’s where you’ll do:

• Providing analysis and delivering end-to-end solution designs using relevant architectural building blocks, as well as producing designs for features that enable frequent incremental customer value delivery.

• Partnering with Enterprise Architecture and service providers to elaborate on solutions, validate technology assumptions, and evaluate implementation alternatives.

• Ensuring IT compliance and governance policies are met and identifying and mitigating technical risks and issues.

• Providing technical leadership and guidance to development teams throughout the project lifecycle.

• Collaborating with Product Owners, Platform Leads, Enterprise Architects, Security Architects, and Engineers to create and maintain the architectural runway for our platform teams.

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’re committed to creating a consciously inclusive workplace where our colleagues can be themselves, thrive and perform at their best. 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.

As an inclusive employer, we offer Workplace Adjustments for colleagues with a disability (which may include long-term health and neurodivergent conditions) where it is reasonable to do so. This could include flexibility with regards to office attendance, location, and working pattern.

We're proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. If you have a disability, you can also apply via our Disability Confident Scheme (DCS). Through the DCS, we guarantee to interview a fair and proportionate number of applicants with a disability, whose application meets the minimum criteria for the advertised job role.

We also provide adjustments that are reasonable throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers for applicants with a disability, long-term health condition or neurodivergent condition. If you’d like an adjustment to the recruitment process just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%

• An annual performance-related bonus

• 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

Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey!