Senior Solution Architect

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Job Description

JOB TITLE: Senior Solution Architect

SALARY: £86,964 - £102,310

LOCATION(S): Halifax

HOURS: Full-time - please note that this role will require you to be on call outside of normal working hours and there will be an additional on call salary.

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

About this opportunity

This vacancy lies at the very heart of this within the Identity and Authentication platform. In ID&A, we strive to give every customer of the Group the strongest possible protection against fraud. It's an interesting, challenging, and dynamic problem space, and we are assembling an elite solution architecture function to help catalyse this journey.

You'll be working with other industry leading architects, engineers, and technicians as a part of a lab within the Identity and Authentication platform.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Owning the solution design for initiatives and programmes throughout the entire delivery lifecycle

• Translating high level business requirements into technology architectures that align to the strategic architecture, through expert engineering and architectural skills.

• Presenting to senior business partners, securing strong engagement for the solution, and ensuring that delivery aligns to longer term roadmaps.

• Engaging engineering and architecture cohorts as required throughout the design phase.

• Mentoring and leading other engineers, building a strong team culture through peer-to-peer teamwork and development.

Why Lloyds Banking Group:

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.

What you'll need

Don't worry if you don't tick all these boxes; we're open minded and keen to invest in enthusiastic, curious, and positive people! We'll provide you with a diverse and energising environment that focuses on equal opportunity and supports career progression. A role within our team will provide you with the chance to work flexibly and collaboratively, while guiding us towards our technology strategy. We'll take your personal and professional development very seriously and enable you to make a positive difference to the overall team's mission.

• Practical experience of working in a Solution Architect role.

• Experience in Digital Transformation of Banking Solutions.

• Experience in platform cloud migration.

• Experience of working with containerised microservices.

• Strong experience with Network and API security, connectors, service, and data pages.

• Excellent stakeholder communication and presentation skills.

• Strong project management skills.

And any experience of these would be really useful

• An understanding of Data Architecture

• A working knowledge of Authentication and Authorisation concepts

• Knowledge of event-driven architecture principles

• CI/CD and monitoring tools

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 performance-related bonus

• 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.