Senior Solution Architect

lloyds banking group; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 107,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading banking group in the UK is searching for a Senior Solution Architect to create complex, cross-platform solutions. This pivotal role involves collaboration with product owners and engineering teams, ensuring solutions are scalable and resilient. Candidates should possess extensive software engineering experience, particularly in cloud-native architectures, with a strong emphasis on security. This position offers a hybrid working pattern and competitive benefits including a generous pension and annual bonus.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution up to 15%

Annual bonus based on performance

30 days holiday plus bank holidays

Flexible lifestyle benefits

Wellbeing initiatives

Qualifications

• Experience designing solutions across the full lifecycle.
• Experience in a large-scale agile environment.
• Experience with cloud architecture and secure design.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end solution architectures across teams.
• Align designs with strategic goals.
• Drive innovation in solution design and delivery.

Skills

Strong software engineering background

Proven experience in cross-platform solutions

Excellent collaboration skills

Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Google Cloud Platform

Job description

Job Description Summary

Job Description

SALARY: £90,440 - £106,400

LOCATION: Edinburgh, Manchester, Bristol, Leeds or Halifax
HOURS: Full time - 35 hours per week
WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in an office site

ABOUT THIS OPPORTUNITY

We’re looking for a Senior Solution Architect to join our dynamic architecture community across multiple platforms in the bank. This is a pivotal leadership role where you’ll shape complex, cross-platform solution designs that deliver real value to our customers. You’ll work at the heart of our agile delivery model, collaborating with product owners, engineers, and enterprise architects to ensure our solutions are resilient, scalable, and aligned with our technology strategy.

responsibilities

• Lead the design of complex, end-to-end solution architectures across teams, labs, and platforms.
• Shape the solution architecture forward look to inform product roadmaps and technical planning.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, and architecture teams to align designs with strategic goals.
• Ensure solutions meet non-functional requirements including resilience, security, and scalability.
• Drive innovation and continuous improvement in solution design and delivery.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to engineering teams.
• Participate in agile ceremonies and deliver iteratively, ensuring continuous feedback and value.

requirements

Architecture & Software Development:

• Strong software engineering and architecture background, with experience across the full solution development lifecycle—from inception through to production.
• Proven experience designing complex, cross-platform solutions in a large-scale agile environment.
• Strong understanding of modern cloud-native architectures, microservices, and API design.
• Experience with architectural governance, risk management, and technical debt mitigation.

Cloud solutions:

• Experience with Public and Private Cloud Solutions, ideally including Google Cloud Platform and OpenShift Container Platform.
• Strong understanding of modern cloud-native architectures, microservices, and secure, scalable solution design.

Collaboration & leadership:

• Excellent partner collaboration skills, with the ability to communicate effectively across technical and non-technical audiences.

Digital transformation & Delivery:

• Experience delivering Digital Transformation Solutions, with a deep understanding of system design decisions and their impact on scalability, resilience, and supportability.

IT WOULD BE GREAT IF YOU ALSO HAD…

• Experience with data modelling and understanding of Data Architecture.
• Exposure to mainframe systems and integration.
• Familiarity with Docker and container orchestration tools such as Kubernetes.
• Understanding of authentication and authorisation concepts, including experience designing and implementing zero trust models.
• Knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks and resilience-by-design principles.

about us

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

benefits

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%.
• Annual bonus award, subject to Group performance.
• Share schemes including free shares.
• 30 days’ holiday, plus bank holidays.
• Flexible benefits tailored to your lifestyle.
• Wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all qualified candidates. We are committed to building a workforce that reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve.