Lead Solution Architect (Apply in minutes)
End Date**
Tuesday 07 January 2025
**Salary Range**
£86,964 - £102,310
**[We support flexible working – click here for more information on flexibleworking options](https:www.lloydsbankinggroup.comcareersculture-and-
inclusionagile-working.html)**
**Flexible Working Options**
Hybrid Working
**Job Description Summary**
**Job Description**
**JOB TITLE:** Lead Solutions Architect
**SALARY:** £85,255 - £105,315
**LOCATION:** Edinburgh
**HOURS:** Full time
**WORKING PATTERN:** Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in an office site
**About this opportunity:**
Lloyds Banking Group is a purposeful business & its transformation agenda isunderpinned by a ground-breaking approach for how we deliver financial
services for our customers. This involves selecting the best of what we do
currently and evolving it to bring business and technology closer together.
Our people have the autonomy to incrementally design, engineer, release, andoperate one or more technology-enabled services for our customers. We are
organised as multidisciplinary teams: the right people with the right
expertise all working together for the same outcome.
We are building contemporary, services-driven architecture which createsopportunities to digitise & deliver excellent customer journeys, business
outcomes and meets group strategic goals. We need to simplify and redefine our
technology and data landscape. And we need to deliver a set of flexible, future-focused core platform capabilities to the benefit of all our customers.You can help shape this future.
As Lead Solutions Architect, you will be responsible for solutions design andarchitecture across our multi-brand, multi-tenanted direct to consumer and
intermediary wealth digital technology estate and its eco-system. The digital
sites underpin external facing journeys for multiple user profiles, multiple
LBG and white label propositions with complex internal and external
integration points.
**About us**
Like the modern Britain we serve, we’re evolving. Investing billions in ourpeople, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of
our 26 million customers. We’re growing with purpose. Join us on our journey
and you will too…
**What you’ll need:**- Solid background as a Lead Solutions or Technical Architect across a large programme of work
- Hands on experience of complete Microsoft stack and frameworks
- Web development stacks (React, MVC, Javascript frameworks, Ajax, Jquery, CSS)
- Experience of designing multi-tier and complex architectures, using various
- Excellent understanding of Azure cloud hosting stack and software deployment best practices
- application software and hardware components
- Knowledge and experience of ID&A;, SCA, SSO patterns (SAML, Oauth, OpenIDConnect)
- Experience of solution design for 24x7 applications handling high transaction throughout and high data volumes
- Excellent understanding of Cybersecurity best practices
- Practical experience of designing and building cloud-based platforms at scale.
- Understanding of domain driven design architectures – understanding where these are applicable and supporting practical steps towards asynchronous, events-based ways of working in this context
- Previous experience as a Solutions Architect within Financial Services or Banking
- Data Analytics, BigQuery
- Content management frameworks and tools (Umbraco or similar)
- Large scale data migrations and ADF pipelines
**About working for us**
Our focus is to ensure were inclusive every day, building an organisationthat 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 insenior 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 madeto our recruitment processes, just let us know.
- 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
of people? **Join our journey.**
**At Lloyds Banking Group, were driven by a clear purpose; to help Britainprosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference
to customers, businesses and communities. With us youll have a key role to
play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and
reach of our Group means youll have many opportunities to learn, grow and
develop.**
**We keep your data safe. So, well only ever ask you to provide confidentialor 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. Well always explain what we need and why, with any request
coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.**
**Were focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to buildinga 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.**