Senior Solution Architect (Mobile)

Lloyds Banking Group; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

30 days holiday

Discretionary annual performance bonus

Private medical benefit

Flexible benefits

Learning and career development

Job summary

Lloyds Banking Group in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Solution Architect to shape the mobile technology landscape. You will define and orchestrate complex architectures across product, engineering and architecture teams, guiding delivery to be secure, resilient and scalable.

You will lead end-to-end mobile initiatives, create roadmaps, evaluate options, balance short‑term delivery with long‑term platform health, and advocate common patterns and standards across mobile teams.

Qualifications

• Significant experience designing and leading end-to-end solution architectures across platforms and environments.
• Strong knowledge of mobile architecture principles across Android and iOS with API integration.
• Experience shaping architectural roadmaps and communicating trade-offs to diverse stakeholders.
• Solid understanding of security, risk management and operational readiness.
• Experience in Agile delivery and cross-functional partnership with product and engineering teams.
• Ability to influence decisions and provide technical leadership in complex environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end solution architecture for complex mobile initiatives across apps, services and platforms.
• Create architecture roadmaps, designs and options to enable rapid delivery.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, Engineering Leads and Enterprise Architects to align priorities and plans.
• Embed secure-by-design and resilient-by-design principles from discovery to live service.
• Identify architectural risks, debt and dependencies while balancing short-term delivery and long-term health.
• Promote common patterns, reusable capabilities and engineering standards across mobile teams.

Skills

End-to-end architecture

Mobile architecture

Stakeholder communication

Agile delivery

Technical leadership

Security & resilience principles

Tools

Cloud technologies

Microservices

Observability

Platform engineering

Service reliability practices

Job description

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of your time, at our Bristol office.

About this opportunity

We're looking for a Senior Solution Architect to help shape the future of our mobile technology landscape.

This is a senior architecture role where you'll define and orchestrate complex solution architectures that support strategic business outcomes and align with our wider technology strategy. You'll work across product, engineering and architecture teams to provide a clear technical direction, helping delivery teams move faster by resolving architectural complexity early and ensuring solutions are secure, resilient and scalable.

You'll play a key role in shaping the architecture roadmap for our mobile platforms, influencing decisions that impact customer experience, engineering effectiveness and long-term technology sustainability.

Key responsibilities include:

• Leading the end-to-end solution architecture for complex mobile initiatives, ensuring designs support customer, business and technology objectives.
• Creating architecture roadmaps, solution designs and technical options that enable delivery teams to make informed decisions and deliver at pace.
• Working with Product Owners, Engineering Leads and Enterprise Architects to align strategic priorities, dependencies and delivery plans.
• Embedding secure-by-design and resilient-by-design principles into mobile solutions from discovery through to live service.
• Identifying and managing architectural risks, technical debt and cross-platform dependencies while balancing short-term delivery needs with long-term platform health.
• Driving the adoption of common patterns, reusable capabilities and engineering standards across mobile teams.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

Like the modern Britain we serve, we're evolving. Investing in our people, technology and data is at the heart of our strategy to become a stronger, more innovative organisation that delivers better outcomes for our customers.

Our technology teams solve complex challenges at scale, work with modern engineering practices and collaborate across disciplines to create services that make a real difference to millions of customers every day.

If you're passionate about architecture, technology strategy and helping teams deliver exceptional outcomes, we'd love to hear from you.

What you'll need:

• Significant experience designing and leading end-to-end solution architectures across applications, services, platforms and operational environments.
• Strong knowledge of mobile architecture principles across Android and iOS platforms, including integration with APIs, backend services and shared platform capabilities.
• Experience shaping architectural roadmaps, evaluating options and communicating technical trade-offs to a wide range of stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of security and resilience principles, including secure design, risk management and operational readiness considerations.
• Experience working within agile delivery environments and partnering closely with engineering, product and architecture teams.
• Proven ability to influence decisions, build alignment and provide technical leadership across complex, multi-disciplinary environments.

And any experience of this would be really useful:

• Experience working within a regulated financial services environment or another large-scale, complex organisation.
• Experience with cloud technologies, microservices, observability, platform engineering or service reliability practices.
• Experience contributing to architecture standards, reference patterns, technical communities or engineering capability development.

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. We are committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and launch a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.

We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. As a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role and have a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition, through the Disability Confident Scheme.

We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers - just let us know what you need.

• 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top.
• Discretionary annual performance-related bonus.
• Private medical benefit and wellbeing support.
• Access to flexible benefits that you can tailor to your lifestyle and priorities.
• Opportunities for learning, development and career progression across one of the UK's largest financial services organisations.