Senior Solution Architect

Lloyds Banking Group; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading banking institution in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Solution Architect to design and orchestrate complex solution architectures that align with technology strategy. The role involves collaborating with stakeholders to deliver innovative solutions in a cloud environment. Ideal candidates will have strong skills in data modelling and architecture trade-offs and a passion for mentoring teams. The position includes a comprehensive benefits package and opportunities for career development.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution up to 15%

Annual performance-related bonus

Share schemes including free shares

Discounted shopping benefits

30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays

Wellbeing initiatives and parental leave policies

Responsibilities

• Orchestrate complex solution architectures to achieve outcomes.
• Shape the solution architecture for the lab.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and design innovative solutions.

Skills

Interpreting stakeholder requirements

Communicating designs to engineering teams

Diagramming techniques for data and system modelling

Designing performant and scalable systems

Event-driven architectures

Data modelling

Designing data pipelines for cloud platforms

Articulating architecture trade-offs

Java and OOP knowledge

Agile familiarity

Mentoring and motivating teams

Growth mindset

Job description

The Senior Solution Architect orchestrates complex solution architectures to achieve key outcomes, aligning with our technology strategy. They enable teams to deliver efficiently by shaping the solution architecture for our lab and collaborating with Product Owners, engineering teams, and Enterprise Architects. Our mission is to securely manage customer data for Lloyds Banking Group, ensuring it is accessible for authorized purposes while maintaining performance, resilience, and data integrity. We also strive to uphold top‑tier engineering standards.

As a Senior Solution Architect, you thrive talking with stakeholders and designing innovative solutions that meet their requirements. Your designs are clean, easy to comprehend and remain cost effective to change over time. You enjoy designing for a cloud environment and know how to benefit from elasticity and resilience whilst remaining secure.

More specifically we'd like you to have much of the following, but it's ok if you don't check every box:

• Proficient in interpreting diverse stakeholder requirements and transforming them into coherent, innovative designs that align with the strategic objectives of the organisation
• Skilled at communicating designs to engineering teams and helping them break work down into deliverables
• Excellent diagramming techniques for both data and system modelling
• Experienced at designing performant and scalable systems that are cost effective to maintain and operate
• Experienced with event‑driven, restful, micro‑service architectures as well as the SOLID design principles
• Experienced at data modelling and domain segregation
• Experienced at designing data pipelines for cloud platforms (ideally GCP)
• Good at articulating architecture trade‑offs and selecting architectures according to best fit
• Follow a security first architecture approach
• Knowledge of Java, OOP, data structures and algorithms
• Have a working knowledge of Agile and be familiar with its values and principles
• Enjoy mentoring and motivating the teams around you
• Have a growth mindset

We’re redefining what a bank is from the inside out. Our technology and our culture are changing to craft a true engineering‑led organisation. Become part of our diverse team, and you’ll experience a rare opportunity to make a difference to the lives of millions through our brands like Halifax, Bank of Scotland, Lloyds, and Scottish Widows (among others). Our flat teams will encourage and empower you to make decisions, build positive relationships, and deliver a meaningful difference to our customers, colleagues, and communities. Our mentors will nurture your talent and encourage you to further develop yourself and your career.

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.

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