Lead Solution Architect

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

Job summary

A prominent financial institution is seeking a Lead Solution Architect in Halifax to develop complex architectures and ensure alignment with customer needs. This full-time hybrid role offers a salary of £90,440 - £106,400 and involves shaping the solution architecture while collaborating with various engineering teams. The candidate will also lead compliance improvements and manage key product deliveries, contributing to an inclusive workplace culture.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution

Annual bonus award

Free shares in share schemes

Discounted shopping benefits

30 days' holiday

Wellbeing initiatives and parental leave policies

Qualifications

• Highly effective communication skills to convey complex data architecture.
• Practical experience in modern data transformation.
• Ability to engage and energize product and engineering communities.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver budget plans for the solution architecture.
• Identify and implement compliance improvements.
• Manage customer relationships regarding complex product solutions.

Skills

Story-telling skills

Experience architecting modern ecosystems

Positive relationship and collaboration skills

Defining data patterns, standards, and practices

Customer understanding

Tools

Cloud-based data platforms

Data engineering landscape

Job description

End Date

Wednesday 13 August 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

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Job Description

JOB TITLE: Lead Solution Architect

SALARY: £90,440 - £106,400

LOCATION(S): Halifax

HOURS: Full time

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

About this opportunity

As a Solution Architect, you'll build complex architectures aligned with our technology strategy! You'll play a substantive role in enabling teams to deliver at pace by shaping the solution architecture forward look for a lab or platform, and partner with Product Owners engineering teams and Enterprise architects!

Key duties consist of:

• Develop and deliver budget plans for own area with guidance from senior colleagues.

• Identify shortcomings, suggests improvements and implements approved revisions to current compliance processes, systems and procedures within assigned unit and/or field.

• Meet the needs of significant customers related to complex, often customised products and services and/or manages a customer advisor department over a significant area.

• Takes responsibility for implementing a team's formal development framework with guidance from senior colleagues, while informally coaching others throughout the organisation in area of expertise and pursuing and investing in opportunities for own personal development.

• Develops and implements innovative business practices within own field, coordinating all aspects of the organization's transformation program.

• Takes responsibility for developing and delivering a key element of the organisation's knowledge management system.

• Builds complex frameworks to fully assess the scope and context of short-term and long-term business needs.

• Manage the definition, development, and/or delivery of a significant product or service of the organisation's development/engineering programme and offers to ensure alignment with customer requirements, and/or manages a medium-size product development/specialist team.

• Develop new methods, tools and programmes for quality assurance while leading developmental initiatives and/or programmes within an area of expertise.

• Provide improvements on short-term or long-term business performance by recommending authoritative technical and/or professional solutions.

• Monitor and manages a wide range of activities ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements by liaising with all internal risk management functions while supporting the development and implementation of the organisation's compliance policy.

• Coordinate the development and/or delivery of a component of the organization's long-term vision.

• Develop tactical plans for optimisation of resources and assets being managed within a given area or department.

About us

If you think all banks are the same, you’d be wrong. We’re an innovative, fast-changing business that’s shaping finance as a force for good. A bank that’s empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose.

What you’ll need

• Story-telling skills to describe our Data Architecture and get agreement to achieve it.

• Experience architecting modern ecosystems to support the transformation of legacy applications

• Energise our product and engineering communities with positive relationship and collaboration skills.

• Practical experience needed for defining the data patterns, standards, and practices guiding our organization.

• Knowledge to be able to talk to and understand our customers, reaching 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 . Understanding the benefits and trade-offs of the various approaches to building data platforms is required.

• Understanding of data engineering landscape and with this, a working knowledge of data pipelines and data mesh principles.

• Working in Financial Services on Regulatory Risk deliveries.

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

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

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.

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. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.