Senior Solution Architect

Lloyds Bank plc; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 93,000 - 109,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension 15%

Annual bonus

Share schemes

Discounted shopping

30 days holiday

Wellbeing & parental leave

Job summary

The Senior Solution Architect (API Lab) at Lloyds Bank plc in Edinburgh will orchestrate complex solution architectures, shaping roadmaps and ensuring secure, scalable designs aligned with our technology strategy. You’ll partner with Product Owners, engineering leads and enterprise architects to deliver across multiple API domains.

We offer hybrid working with Edinburgh office days, a salary between £92,701 and £109,060, and a 35-hour week.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in Solution Architecture within large-scale enterprise environments.
• Proven track record delivering complex platform and digital transformation initiatives.
• Experience defining architecture strategy across multiple products and technology domains.
• Deep expertise in enterprise API ecosystems.
• Strong understanding of API operating models, governance, and lifecycle management.

Responsibilities

• Define and own solution architecture across the API Lab portfolio.
• Develop strategic architecture roadmaps aligned with business priorities and enterprise technology strategy.
• Drive architectural consistency across multiple products, teams, and engineering domains.
• Influence platform-wide decisions that impact thousands of developers across the Group.
• Shape long-term investment priorities and technology direction.
• Promote modern engineering practices and cloud-native design principles.
• Partner with Product Owners and Engineering Leads to align strategy, architecture, and delivery.
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders across the organisation.
• Champion innovation while ensuring solutions remain secure, resilient, supportable, and compliant.

Skills

Solution Architecture

API ecosystems

Stakeholder influence

TOGAF/DDD knowledge

Tools

GCP

Apigee

KONG

Developer Portal

API Security

SRE

Harness

Job description

End Date Wednesday 21 October 2026 Salary Range £92,701 - £109,060 We support flexible working – Flexible Working Options Hybrid Working, Job Share

Job Description Summary

The purpose of the Senior Solution Architect is to orchestrate complex solution architectures with a broad architectural significance for key outcomes or epics by defining the architectures and designs that deliver our key outcomes aligning with our technology strategy. 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 architects.

Job Description

JOB TITLE: Senior Solution Architect (API Lab) SALARY: £92,701 – £109,060 LOCATION(S): Edinburgh HOURS: Full-time – 35 hours per week WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our Edinburgh office site. Colleagues with disabilities can be supported with workplace adjustments including hybrid working expectations in line with our Flexibility Works policy.

About this opportunity

At Lloyds Banking Group, we’re helping Britain prosper by transforming the way technology enables our customers, colleagues, and businesses. Through strategic investment in cloud platforms, modern engineering, automation, and digital services, we're creating scalable, secure, and resilient technology platforms that power some of the UK's most critical financial journeys

The API & Digital Services Platform is a strategic engineering capability within Lloyds Banking Group, enabling the creation, management, discovery, governance, and consumption of APIs at enterprise scale. Within the platform, the API Lab is responsible for delivering the strategic API ecosystem that supports thousands of engineers across the Group. The Lab enables teams to design, build, publish, secure, discover, consume, and operate APIs consistently and safely, while accelerating innovation and reducing duplication.

The API Lab is responsible for four strategic product domains:

• API Gateway – Enterprise API runtime and management capabilities across on-premises and cloud environments.
• API Marketplace – The Group's strategic platform for API discovery, onboarding, subscription, and reuse.
• API Conformance Suite – Automated API governance, standards validation, compliance, quality engineering, and policy enforcement capabilities.
• API Enablement Platform – Developer self-service, engineering automation, Internal Developer Platform (IDP), and API lifecycle acceleration capabilities.

Together, these capabilities support the API Lab's long-term vision of delivering a scalable, secure, resilient, highly automated, and developer-centric API ecosystem that accelerates innovation while maintaining strong governance, security, and operational excellence.

What you’ll be doing

• Define and own solution architecture across the API Lab portfolio.
• Develop strategic architecture roadmaps aligned with business priorities and enterprise technology strategy.
• Drive architectural consistency across multiple products, teams, and engineering domains.
• Influence platform-wide decisions that impact thousands of developers across the Group.
• Shape long-term investment priorities and technology direction.
• Promote modern engineering practices and cloud-native design principles.
• Partner with Product Owners and Engineering Leads to align strategy, architecture, and delivery.
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders across the organisation.
• Champion innovation while ensuring solutions remain secure, resilient, supportable, and compliant.

Why join us?

We’re transforming at pace. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to change the way we meet the needs of our 28 million customers. We’re growing, and we’d love you to be part of the journey.

What we’re looking for?

• Significant experience in Solution Architecture within large-scale enterprise environments.
• Proven track record delivering complex platform and digital transformation initiatives.
• Experience defining architecture strategy across multiple products and technology domains.
• Deep expertise in enterprise API ecosystems.
• Strong understanding of API operating models, governance, and lifecycle management.
• Experience influencing senior business and technology stakeholders.
• Strong knowledge of Architecture & Design (e.g. TOGAF, Domain-Driven Design)
• Strong knowledge and practical experience of: GCP Harness Apigee KONG Developer Portal API Ecosystem Security SRE

We know that great talent comes from many backgrounds. Whilst this job advert may reference specific years of experience, we recognise that skills are developed in many ways, so if you have relevant, transferable experience, we encourage you to apply.

This is a place for you. 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.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• An 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
• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Ready for a career where you’ll learn and thrive?

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. With 320 years under our belt, we're used to change, and today is no different. Join us and help drive this change, shaping the future of finance whilst working at pace to deliver for our customers. Here, you'll do the best work of your career. Your impact will be amplified by our scale as you learn and develop, gaining skills for the future.

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