Solutions Architect

Agile Working Options

Hybrid Working

Job Description Summary

Solutions Architect:

Lloyds Banking Group, Group Technology Retail Transformation - Consumer Servicing and Engagement Platform

Location: Bristol based, hybrid working with 2 days per week in the office.

Salary & Benefits: £61,000 to £81,000 base salary based on experience and grade, plus annual personal bonus, 15% employer pension contribution (when you put in 6%), private medical insurance, 30 days holiday plus bank holidays.

Job Description

Job Title:  Solutions Architect – CS&E

Salary: £66,861.00 - £85,290.00 GBP

Location(S): Bristol

Hours: Full time

Working Pattern: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in the Bristol office site

About this opportunity

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Consumer Servicing and Engagement Platform for a Senior Solutions Architect. The Solution Architect is vital in ensuring the products we deliver are fit for purpose and meet the quality and standards that our customers expect. You will realise business value by delivering reliable, scalable and working software to production. Ensuring platforms and services are built consistent with industry standard methodology and standards and be responsible for the design and solutions for the domain application stack. Understanding application integration and E2E flow, and are comfortable communicating this at all levels, from senior partners down to root-cause analysis with developers.

Here’s where you’ll make a difference:

An ideal Solution Architect will have a can-do attitude, interest in exploring technologies beyond your core skills, willing to learn, highly motivated and with a passion for working with people, working in a strong collaborative way to drive efforts to create, build, support and improve our applications. You also enjoy working closely with the product and other engineering teams with lots of exciting new challenges. You'll be a core contributor to ensure good quality and engineering practices are followed in accordance with engineering transformation strategy.

About us

Like the modern Britain we serve, we’re evolving. Investing billions in our people, 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 -

We believe that people don't fit neatly into roles, and we value everyone's individual skills, experience, and knowledge — it's what makes you amazing!

As a minimum to be considered, we would like to see demonstrated experience of:

Core experience in at least one of:

• Strong Software Engineering and Architecture background
• Knowledge of agile development practices with a history of technical leadership.
• Experience across the entire solutions development life cycle from inception, through build to production
• You'll appreciate and acknowledge the impact of system design decisions on scalability, resilience, and supportability.
• Experience of API design and architecture patterns, messaging technologies (Kafka, MQ)
• Exposure to modern application frameworks (Springboot Java etc)
• Excellent partner management and presentation skills
• It would be great if you had…
• Knowledge of delivery of microservices to production.
• Exposure to Systems Thinking
• Exposure to Docker and container orchestration tools e.g., Kubernetes
• API Economy,
• Big Data
• Cloud/Open Source,
• Automation/Robotics,
• Blockchain

It is crucial that you bring the right mind-set to the role. We understand in such a diverse and disparate world no one person can be a specialist in all aspects. If you have the right technical background, a willingness to be part of a team dedicated to redefining the landscape and are willing to develop yourself then we’re keen to hear from you.

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.

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.

We are proud supporters of Women in Data®.  Connect, engage and belong to the largest free female data community in the UK – visit: www.womenindata.co.uk to join our community.

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