Lead Solution Architect

JOB TITLE:  Lead Solutions Architect

SALARY: £85,255 - £105,315

LOCATION: Edinburgh

HOURS: Full time

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in an office site

About this opportunity:

Lloyds Banking Group is a purposeful business & its transformation agenda is underpinned by a ground-breaking approach for how we deliver financial services for our customers. This involves selecting the best of what we do currently and evolving it to bring business and technology closer together.

Our people have the autonomy to incrementally design, engineer, release, and operate one or more technology-enabled services for our customers. We are organised as multidisciplinary teams: the right people with the right expertise all working together for the same outcome.

We are building contemporary, services-driven architecture which creates opportunities to digitise & deliver excellent customer journeys, business outcomes and meets group strategic goals. We need to simplify and redefine our technology and data landscape. And we need to deliver a set of flexible, future-focused core platform capabilities to the benefit of all our customers. You can help shape this future.

As Lead Solutions Architect, you will be responsible for solutions design and architecture across our multi-brand, multi-tenanted direct to consumer and intermediary wealth digital technology estate and its eco-system. The digital sites underpin external facing journeys for multiple user profiles, multiple LBG and white label propositions with complex internal and external integration points.

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 need:

• Solid background as a Lead Solutions or Technical Architect across a large programme of work
• Hands on experience of complete Microsoft stack and frameworks
• Web development stacks (React, MVC, Javascript frameworks, Ajax, Jquery, CSS)
• Experience of designing multi-tier and complex architectures, using various
• Excellent understanding of Azure cloud hosting stack and software deployment best practices
• application software and hardware components
• Knowledge and experience of ID&A, SCA, SSO patterns (SAML, Oauth, OpenIDConnect)
• Experience of solution design for 24x7 applications handling high transaction throughout and high data volumes
• Excellent understanding of Cybersecurity best practices

And any experience of these would be really useful 

• Practical experience of designing and building cloud-based platforms at scale.
• Understanding of domain driven design architectures – understanding where these are applicable and supporting practical steps towards asynchronous, events-based ways of working in this context
• Previous experience as a Solutions Architect within Financial Services or Banking
• Data Analytics, BigQuery
• Content management frameworks and tools (Umbraco or similar)
• Large scale data migrations and ADF pipelines

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.

• 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

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