Senior Solution Architect

Lloyds Banking Group; Chester; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 107,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services group in Chester seeks a Senior Solution Architect to drive technology solutions within the Embedded Finance team. The role requires strong collaboration with business leaders and involves creating innovative solutions that meet customer needs. The ideal candidate has extensive experience with modern platforms and a solid understanding of consumer lending. This position offers a hybrid working model and a competitive salary package.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution up to 15%

Annual bonus based on Group performance

Share schemes with free shares

Lifestyle adaptable benefits such as discounted shopping

30 days holiday plus bank holidays

Wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Qualifications

• Experience in a broad range of modern platforms and technologies.
• Able to drive progress in a new business area independently.
• Strong ability to work with and influence external partners.
• Good understanding of the consumer lending sector.
• Knowledge of leveraging technology to implement business change.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with various stakeholders to create the architectural framework for Embedded Finance.
• Work with partners on solutions and technology evaluations.
• Deliver comprehensive designs for systems enabling rapid changes.
• Provide critical feedback to secure funding for key solutions.
• Champion quality and modern architectures.

Skills

Modern platforms and technologies

Self-motivated

Influencing 3rd party providers

Understanding of consumer lending

Using technology for business change

Job description

Overview

End Date: Monday 06 October 2025

Salary Range: £90,440 - £106,400

Flexible Working Options: Hybrid Working, Job Share

Location: Chester

Hours: Full-time

Working Pattern: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our Chester office.

Job Title: Senior Solution Architect

Salary: £90,440 - £115,000

About this opportunity: We are recruiting for a Solution Architect to work closely with the Technology Platform Lead and senior Business leaders for Embedded Finance within Consumer Lending. This is an exciting and challenging opportunity to be at the heart of developing a new business within the Consumer Lending space. The Embedded Finance team is a start-up group within Consumer Lending and is tasked with building out propositions that solve customers’ financial needs, when and where they are. We want to solve problems for existing franchise customers as well as those new to franchise, using unique LBG capabilities in ways that are integrated into customers’ existing lifestyles. We’ll be bold and innovative in our use of data and technology to put customers first, in order to build sustainable and long-term business models with a range of external and internal partners, thus adding to Group capabilities overall. As a strong technology leader you will blend your deep domain and technical expertise to shape technology solutions in partnership with other LBG technology functions and with 3rd party providers. We can offer you the opportunity to work within an engaged dynamic team at the forefront of transforming and digitising the Lloyds Banking Group Consumer Bank.

About us: We’re on an exciting journey and there couldn’t be a better time to join us. The investments we’re making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities, and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive.

What you’ll do

• Collaborate with Product Owners, Platform Leads, Enterprise Architects & Engineers to create the architectural runway for the Embedded Finance lab.
• Partner with Enterprise Architecture & service providers to elaborate on solutions, their interfaces and validating technology assumptions, evaluating implementation alternatives and software lifecycle risks, assumptions, issues & dependencies
• Deliver detailed designs for systems that are decoupled from enterprise systems where possible to enable rapid change and delivery
• Supply critical technical feedback to the financial investment process in order to obtain funding for key solution opportunities
• Provide oversight & champion built in quality, decoupled & modernised architectures

What you’ll bring

• Experience in a wide range of modern platforms and technologies.
• Self-motivated and capable of driving progress in a new business area
• Strong capabilities for working with and influencing 3rd party providers.
• A good understanding of consumer lending
• Appreciation of how to use technology to deliver business change.

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. 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.