Solution Architect

Lloyds Banking Group; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 107,000; Full time

Job summary

Lloyds Banking Group is seeking a Senior Solution Architect to lead the design of complex solution architectures that align with their technology strategy. This role involves collaboration with various teams to enhance the data and analytics platform, ensuring it meets customer needs. The position offers a competitive salary, flexible working options, and a commitment to diversity and inclusion.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution of up to 15%

Annual bonus based on Group performance

Share schemes including free shares

30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays

Wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Qualifications

• Experience in designing and building cloud-based data platforms.
• Knowledge of data engineering landscape and data pipelines.
• Experience in Financial Services on Regulatory Risk deliveries.

Responsibilities

• Orchestrate complex solution architectures for key outcomes.
• Shape the solution architecture for the Analytics Lab.
• Partner with Product Owners and engineering teams.

Skills

Storytelling skills

Relationship and stakeholder skills

Practical experience in data patterns

Customer understanding

Job description

End Date: Monday 02 June 2025

Salary Range: £90,440 - £106,400

We support flexible working – click here for more information on flexible working options

Flexible Working Options: Hybrid Working, Job Share

Job Description Summary

The purpose of the Senior Solution Architect is to orchestrate complex solution architectures with a broad architectural significance for key outcomes or epics by defining the architectures and designs that deliver our key outcomes, aligning with our technology strategy. They play a substantive role in enabling teams to deliver at pace by shaping the solution architecture forward look for a lab or platform, and partnering with Product Owners, engineering teams, and Enterprise architects.

Job Description

JOB TITLE: Solution Architect

SALARY: £90,440 - £106,400

LOCATION(S): Leeds

HOURS: Full time

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in the above location.

About this opportunity

The Group is at a pivotal stage in delivering against its strategy; becoming increasingly proactive, nimble, and efficient is key to ensuring we make good decisions to maintain what differentiates us in the market. The Risk strategy, enabled by the Prudential & Analytics Platform, is key to creating this shift for the Group. We're passionate about building a collaborative, empowered, inclusive, and successful team who can connect with this purpose and deliver for our customers.

Prudential & Analytics (P&A) is on an exciting journey, and there is no better time to join us. The investments we are making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects; fresh possibilities have provided new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive.

Currently embarking on a journey to simplify and redefine the data and technology landscape. And we need to deliver a Data & Analytics platform which allows us to deploy data products and advanced analytical (including Machine Learning) capabilities to the benefit of all our customers. You can help shape this future.

You will work directly with our Engineering Lead/Product owner and the Enterprise and Solution architecture communities to shape and define the Target Solution Architecture for the Analytics Lab within the Prudential and Analytics Platform. Once agreed, our Solution Architects continuously invest in maintaining the Architecture runway underpinning our Platform teams.

You will act as a technology enthusiast, bringing your experience and enthusiasm to help build the modern data-led organization.

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.

What you'll need

• Storytelling skills to describe our Data Architecture and get agreement to achieve it.
• Relationship and stakeholder skills to energize our product and engineering communities.
• Practical experience required to define the data patterns, standards, and practices we will use to guide our organization.
• Knowledge to understand our customers and reach solutions that meet their needs.

And any experience of these would be really useful:

• Practical experience of designing and building cloud-based data platforms at scale. You will know and understand the benefits and trade-offs of the various approaches to building data platforms.
• Understanding of data engineering landscape and a working knowledge of data pipelines and data mesh principles. You may have come from an engineering background in this space, although this is not essential.
• Experience working in Financial Services on Regulatory Risk deliveries.

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organization 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 organizations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.

We especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.

We’re disability confident. If you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

Benefits

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual bonus, subject to Group performance
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 30 days’ holiday, plus bank holidays
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Want to do meaningful work that makes a difference to millions? Join our journey.

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose: to help Britain prosper. Our colleagues focus on making a difference to customers, businesses, and communities. With us, you'll have opportunities to learn, grow, and develop.

We keep your data safe and only ask for confidential or sensitive information when you’re invited for an interview or have accepted an offer. We'll explain what we need and why, from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group representative.

We are committed to a values-led culture and building a workforce that reflects the diversity of our customers and communities. Together, we’re creating an inclusive workplace where all colleagues can make a real difference.