Senior Solution Architect

Lloyds Banking Group; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Up to 15% pension contribution

Annual performance bonus

Share schemes including free shares

Discounted shopping

30 days holiday + bank holidays

Wellbeing initiatives & parental leave

Job summary

Lloyds Banking Group in Edinburgh seeks a Senior Solution Architect for the API Lab to define and own solution architecture across the API platform. You will shape strategic roadmaps, drive architectural consistency across multiple products and engineering domains, and influence platform-wide decisions that affect thousands of developers.

Collaborating with Product Owners and Engineering Leads, you will promote cloud-native design, governance, security, and resilience while delivering scalable,

Qualifications

• Significant experience in Solution Architecture within large-scale enterprise environments.
• Experience delivering complex platform and digital transformation initiatives.
• Strong knowledge of architecture design and governance.

Responsibilities

• Define and own solution architecture across the API Lab portfolio.
• Develop strategic architecture roadmaps aligned with business priorities.
• Drive consistency across products and engineering domains.
• Influence platform-wide decisions affecting thousands of developers.
• Promote cloud-native design principles and secure, resilient architectures.

Skills

Solution Architecture

API Platform

Cloud-native

TOGAF

GCP

KONG

Security

SRE

Job description

JOB TITLE: Senior Solution Architect (API Lab)

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.

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.
• 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
• KONG
• 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:

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