Lead Solutions Architect

Lloyds Banking Group; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 107,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution is seeking a Lead Solution Architect in Edinburgh. You will orchestrate complex solutions, shape architecture, and manage key developments. Ideal candidates will have hands-on experience architecting modern ecosystems and strong team leadership abilities. This role offers hybrid working options and a comprehensive benefit package including a generous pension and bonuses.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution

Annual bonus award

Adaptable benefits like discounted shopping

30 days holiday plus bank holidays

Wellbeing initiatives and parental leave policies

Qualifications

• Must have experience of architecting modern ecosystems.
• Ability to energise product and engineering communities.
• Hands-on experience defining engineering patterns and practices.

Responsibilities

• Orchestrate complex solution architectures for key outcomes.
• Manage compliance processes in assigned fields.
• Develop and deliver budget plans with guidance.

Skills

Story-telling skills

Experience with modern ecosystems

Relationship and collaboration skills

Practical hands-on experience

Customer understanding

Experience leading teams

Job description

End Date Tuesday 07 October 2025

Salary Range £90,440 - £106,400

Flexible Working Options Hybrid Working, Job Share

Job Description Summary

Job Description

JOB TITLE: Lead Solution Architect

LOCATION(S): Edinburgh

HOURS: Full time

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

Overview

As a Lead Solution Architect you will orchestrate complex solution architectures for key outcomes. 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 partner with Product Owners engineering teams and Enterprise architect.

Responsibilities

• 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 the assigned 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.
• Take 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.
• Initiate, formulates, and implements new business practices for own field, while managing the development and/or delivery of a significant element of the organization's change management program.
• Take responsibility for developing and delivering a key element of the organisation\'s knowledge management system.
• Build 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.
• Make a significant improvement on short-term or long-term business performance by recommending authoritative technical and/or professional solutions.
• Monitor and manages a wide range of activities of a significant team 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.
• Manage the development and/or delivery of a component of the organization\'s long-term goals.
• Develop tactical plans for optimisation of resources and assets being managed within a given area or department.
• Develop and/or delivers a plan for a specific area of responsibility by managing others.

Qualifications

• Story-telling skills to describe our Solution Architecture and get agreement to achieve it.
• Experience of architecting modern ecosystems to support the transformation of monolithic applications
• Relationship and collaborator skills to energise our product and engineering communities.
• Practical, hands-on experience required for defining the patterns, standards and practices guiding our engineering community.
• Knowledge to be able to talk to and understand our customers, reaching solutions that meet their needs.
• Experience of leading small to medium size teams and the ability to coach

About this opportunity

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.

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.

Benefits

• 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.