Senior Solution Architect- (Data)

Lloyds Banking Group; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 107,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading financial services institution as a Senior Solution Architect focused on data solutions. The role involves creating architecture and managing complex data initiatives, leveraging modern tech and Agile methodologies. Enjoy collaboration within an inclusive company culture, influencing strategic decisions with your expertise in data architecture.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution up to 15%

Annual bonus award based on performance

Share schemes including free shares

Wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

30 days holiday plus bank holidays

Qualifications

• Significant experience in delivering technical solutions in an Agile environment.
• Deep technical expertise in data platforms and complex data pipelines.
• Robust understanding of low latency solutions and application design.

Responsibilities

• Create solution architecture and manage delivery to meet business needs.
• Analyze systems designs and operational performance for improvement.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure optimal solutions.

Skills

Agile Delivery

Data Architecture

Problem Solving

Collaboration

Education

TOGAF or equivalent certification

GCP Data Engineer/ Cloud Architect certifications

Tools

Jenkins

Spinnaker

Harness

Job description

JOB TITLE: Senior Solution Architect (Data)

SALARY: £90,440 - £106,400

LOCATION(S): Bristol

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 Bristol office.

About this opportunity:

We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we’re shaping finance for good. We’re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you!

As the UK's largest Digital, Retail and Commercial bank we realise that our data is a significant business differentiator and plays a pivotal role in achieving our sustainable growth ambitions.

This role is in Transaction Classification Services lab, where we’re on a mission to provide a world class transaction data enrichment capability to power commercialisation. We're delivering one of the UKs richest transaction datasets, revolutionising financial insights and market intelligence for LBG and our customers. It's a critical role to us, as you'll drive the evolution of data analytics solutions and AI capabilities, by developing and delivering solutions that are aligned with our group technical strategy and help achieve our lab’s goals and priorities.

In this role, you’ll:

• Be responsible for creating the solution architecture, evolution roadmaps and managing delivery of solutions to address our business needs, ensuring it meets all the standards and policies of LBG.

• You'll support the delivery of solutions as per specifications and requirements, manage architecture debts and evolution roadmaps.

• Get the opportunity to work with modern tech, data stacks, and cloud-based architectures, managing both the foundational data solutions alongside the adoption of advanced AI and ML capabilities.

• You’ll support delivery leads and engineers to define the scope and low-level designs of solutions and drive delivery of new features in an agile manner, helping them identify and coordinate dependencies between activities.

• You'll analyse systems designs and operational performance to continually drive for improvement and optimisation.

• You'll be collaborating closely with cross-functional teams, including Product Owners, Enterprise Architects and Engineers to ensure the solutions are fit for purpose but also optimised for efficiency and to our standards.

About you:

• Experience of Agile Delivery: Significant experience in delivering technical solutions in an Agile environment.

• Proven experience as a Solution Architect: Deep technical expertise in delivering various solution architectures and designs including data platforms and complex data pipelines preferably on public cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure).

• Robust understanding of application design concepts: Experience of designing scalable low latency solutions to meet different functional and non-functional requirements to and support scalability, availability and performance needs.

• Proven experience in Data Architecture: Experience of designing and delivering complex batch and streaming data pipelines across on-prem and cloud. Understanding of orchestration, data processing (streaming, batch, ETL/ELT etc), and database capabilities (e.g. relational, No-SQL).

• Problem solving: Ability to think strategically and creatively to address complex challenges and provide innovative, scalable, robust solutions.

• Collaboration and communication: Able to influence others with strong communication and interpersonal skills.

• Growth mindset: Able to learn and use new skills & knowledge in varying circumstances and are comfortable providing recommendations and thought leadership using your own judgment.

• CI/CD: Detailed understanding of automated CI/CD pipelines and experience of working with tools such as Jenkins, Spinnaker, Harness etc.

Desirables:

• Industry Standard: TOGAF or equivalent, GCP Data Engineer/ Cloud Architect certifications or equivalent

• Good appreciation of cyber, data security and data privacy, the architectural implications on application design.

• Modern progressive data capabilities – e.g., data lake/ data mesh architecture, machine learning, AI, ML-Ops etc.

• Knowledge of QA best practices, good understanding of data quality concepts.

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 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.