Senior Solution Architect

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!

About this opportunity:

As Senior Solution Architect, you’ll help us define solution architecture and design that unlocks and create opportunities to digitise & deliver excellent customer journeys, business outcomes and meets group strategic goals to simplify and redefine the technology landscape.

You’ll be a key part of our leadership team within the Loans lab. We’re a fun, dynamic and fast paced team who are at the forefront of leading the way for customers & colleagues in transforming & digitising the Lloyds Banking Group Retail Bank. The transformation culture the Loans lab lives by is to empower its co-located teams to build dynamic environments using agile methodology, providing outstanding customer experiences; and by driving innovative technology solutions that that drive iterative change across research, buy and servicing needs to market at pace.

You’ll do:

Collaborate with Product Owners, Platform Leads, Enterprise Architects & Engineers to create the Architectural runway for our Platform teams
Partner with Enterprise Architecture & service providers to elaborate on solutions, their interfaces and validating technology assumptions, evaluating implementation alternatives and software lifecycle risks, assumptions, issues & dependencies
Promote adaptive design practises to drive collaboration across Loans and YCS feature teams and Platform teams centring on a common vision with continuous feedback
Providing technical leadership within Feature teams
Build efficient and reusable back-end systems and abstractions
Participate in Agile ceremonies, elicit requirements, shape & validate designs or prototypes that deliver customer outcomes that align to our target architecture.
Leverage industry best-practise, frameworks, standards & policies in creating opportunities & value for our customers
Supplies critical technical feedback to the financial investment process in order to obtain funding for key solution opportunities
Support Product Owners & Platform Leads in identifying, articulating and impact assessing software & infrastructure currency risks or issues, offering options & recommendations on action planning & continuously ever-greening solutions/systems within the Platform

What you’ll need:

Experience in Spring, Spring IOC/DI
Experience of building Microservices
Strong experience of Rest Services and Core java
Strong understanding of Web technologies such as JavaScript, HTML, CSS, JQuery, JSON, XML
Exposure to at least one of Liberty, Tomcat or Jetty Containers
Strong Understanding of Event Driven Architectures & Streaming Platforms
Exposure to Cloud Platform as a Service or similar offerings
Enjoys communicating & influencing collaborators with little or no technical knowledge, influencing their thinking on the art of the possible through technology.
Substantive experiences defining architectural runways or solution architecture roadmaps for inclusive systems which span adaptive infrastructure domains at Digital-scale.
Established experiences partnering with other collaborators such as Enterprise, Security, Data & Infrastructure architects to create customer value or address business problems.

It would be great if you also had:

Preferable experience with Python and ML technologies
Experience in Big Data and Hadoop ecosystem
Implementation experience in one of the cloud platforms – GCP, Azure or AWS

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: