Solution Architect

lloyds banking group; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 81,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services organization is seeking a Solution Architect to lead the architecture of products that deliver customer value. You will work in a hybrid model, providing technical direction and analyzing design options to meet enterprise architecture standards. The role offers a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package focused on inclusion and diversity.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution of up to 15%

Annual bonus award

Share schemes including free shares

Discounted shopping benefits

30 days’ holiday

Wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Qualifications

• Lead solution architecture for products delivering customer value.
• Support defining a solution architecture forward look.
• Analyse options to propose solutions and create designs.

Responsibilities

• Ensure solutions are resilient, secure, and scalable.
• Provide technical direction to engineering teams.
• Participate in solution reviews for compliance.

Skills

Microservices and event-driven architecture

API design and integration patterns

Domain-driven design and service orchestration

Java, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Spring Security

Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, IBM MQ

Jenkins, UrbanCode, Maven, Git, CI/CD pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes

Experience of either Azure, AWS, GCP, private cloud platform

Oracle, SQL Server, MongoDB, BigQuery

TLS v1.2+, secure credential handling

Job description

Overview

End Date: Wednesday 29 October 2025

Salary Range: £81,999 - £91,110

Flexible Working Options: We support flexible working – click here for more information on flexible working options

Flexible Working Options: Hybrid Working

Job Title: Solution Architect

Salary: £81,999 - £95,000

Location: London

Hours: Full time

Working Pattern: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in our London office.

What you’ll do

• Lead the solution architecture of solutions for products that deliver customer value and meet our quality, resilience, financial and technical objectives.
• Support the definition a solution architecture forward look within the QBR planning horizon to inform the product roadmaps. Considering currency and technical debt and key outcomes and epics, work ahead to shape the technical activities needed that allow teams to deliver and meet our architecture roadmaps in support of the product vision.
• Analyse options and implementation alternatives to propose solutions and create designs using relevant architectural building blocks delivering modernised architectures.
• Align with architectural standards, protocols, principles and patterns and support the development of local standards and patterns as required. Where it is not possible to align with standards and patterns ensure an agreed position is reached, and technical debt or non-compliance is captured.
• Provide technical direction or guidance to engineering teams on architectural solutions.
• Research and recommend new technologies and tools to support solution development.
• Ensure solutions are resilient, secure, and scalable, meeting key non-functional requirements which align with enterprise architecture and our technology strategy.
• Participate in solution reviews to ensure compliance with standards.
• Identify and help mitigate risks associated with solution architecture driving resolution through architectural or agile practices.
• Contribute to innovation and continuous improvement in solution design and delivery.
• Deliver solutions in an agile manner, participating in agile ceremonies and using agile tools, working with feature teams in the flow of the work, ensuring iterative development and seeking continuous feedback to enable incremental customer value delivery.
• Maintain and enhance technical skills sufficiently to provide technical guidance and stay current with technologies industry trends and standards.

What you’ll need

• Microservices and event-driven architecture
• API design and integration patterns
• Domain-driven design and service orchestration
• Java, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Spring Security
• Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, IBM MQ
• Jenkins, UrbanCode, Maven, Git, CI/CD pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes, container orchestration
• Experience of either Azure, AWS, GCP, private cloud platform
• Oracle, SQL Server, MongoDB, BigQuery
• TLS v1.2+, secure credential handling

Nice to have

• Payments architecture and integration (transaction processing, authorisation, reconciliation)
• UK Domestic Payments (Faster Payments, BACS, Cheques), International Payments (SWIFT/SEPA)

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

If you’re excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We’d love to hear from you!

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.