Senior Solution Architect

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

Job summary

A leading financial institution in Scotland is seeking a Senior Solution Architect to shape solution architectures that drive strategic outcomes. This role involves working closely with engineering teams to ensure robust, scalable solutions and mentoring staff. Candidates should have significant engineering experience and strong collaboration skills. The position offers a hybrid work model and an attractive benefits package including a pension and performance bonuses.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution up to 15%

Performance-related bonus

Share schemes including free shares

Discounted shopping benefits

30 days holiday plus bank holidays

Generous parental leave policies

Qualifications

• Deep understanding of technical delivery and design principles.
• Experience in transforming monolithic applications.
• Experience in leading small to medium-sized teams.

Responsibilities

• Shape and deliver solution architecture across platforms and labs.
• Lead complex design initiatives ensuring alignment with business goals.
• Collaborate with Product Owners and engineering teams.
• Champion best practices in compliance and quality assurance.
• Mentor and coach teams to foster technical excellence.

Skills

Hands-on engineering experience

Story-telling skills

Architecting modern ecosystems

Relationship and collaborator skills

Defining engineering standards

Leadership and coaching abilities

Job description

JOB TITLE: Senior Solution Architect

SALARY: £90,400 - £106,400

LOCATION: Edinburgh

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 one of our office sites.

As a Lead Solution Architect, you will design and orchestrate complex solution architectures that deliver key business outcomes. You'll play a pivotal role in enabling teams to move at pace by shaping the forward-looking architecture for a lab or platform. Working closely with Product Owners, engineering teams, and Enterprise Architects, you will ensure solutions are robust, scalable, and aligned with strategic objectives.

About this opportunity

You will join our Economic Crime Prevention Platform, an initiative focused on protecting customers and the bank from financial threats. We use data-driven intelligence, AI, and machine learning to predict, detect, and prevent economic crime. Our work includes personalised interventions, mobile-first fraud journeys, and advanced investigation tools, ensuring interactions are efficient and compliant. By leveraging external data partnerships and technologies like GenAI and Graph Neural Networks, we deliver proactive solutions that safeguard millions and shape the future of financial security. If you're passionate about solving complex problems and driving innovation, this is your chance to make a real impact.

Day to day, you will:

• Shape and deliver solution architecture that drives strategic outcomes across platforms and labs.

• Lead complex design initiatives, ensuring alignment with business goals and technical standards.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, engineering teams, and Enterprise Architects to enable delivery at pace.
• Champion best practices in compliance, quality assurance, and change management.
• Mentor and coach teams, fostering technical excellence and continuous improvement.
• Influence long‑term strategy, developing frameworks and methods to optimise resources and enhance business performance.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

Like the modern Britain we serve, we're evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever‑changing needs of our 26 million customers. We're growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too.

What you’ll need:

• Previous hands‑on engineering experience (e.g. software development) with a deep understanding of technical delivery and design principles.
• 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.
• Experience of leading small to medium size teams and the ability to coach.

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 performance‑related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping, cycle to work, financial advice etc.
• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Ready to start growing with purpose? Apply today