Solutions Architect - Payment Services

Solution Architect - Payment Services Platform SALARY: £66,202 - £83,719 LOCATION: Edinburgh or London HOURS: Full Time WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of your time, at our Edinburgh Office (EH11)

Are you an experienced Solution Architect looking for an amazing career opportunity to help shape the future of New Payments Architecture, using cutting edge technology, cloud hosting, SaaS services and building a new greenfield payments platform, helping us navigate the regulatory landscape and define our products of the future?

We're looking for Solution Architect to join our New Payments Architecture (NPA) Lab.

NPA is a regulatory initiative that will change UK payments as we know them. Working closely with industry, the NPA team is replacing the complexity of the existing payments landscape with a new, more efficient infrastructure that will benefit from enhanced security and resilience.

This multi-million-pound initiative has a new partnership with a leading FinTech company and is looking for talented individuals who are interested in working with new and exciting technologies, such as Cloud and Software as a Service (SaaS).

• Strong Software Architecture background and knowledge of agile development practices with a history of technical leadership
• Experience across the entire software development life cycle from inception, through build to production
• You 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 (Spring boot Java etc)
• Exposure to Open Banking architecture framework

• Knowledge of delivery of microservices to production
• Exposure to Systems Thinking
• Exposure to Docker and container orchestration tools e.g., Kubernetes
• Knowledge in one or more of the following: API Economy; Big Data; Cloud/Open Source; Automation/Robotics; Blockchain
• An understanding of any of the following Payments areas: UK Domestic Payments (Cheques, Faster Payments, BACS); International Payments (SWIFT/SEPA); Trade
• Legal, Regulatory & Mandatory projects in Payments areas
• New Payments Architecture

Why Lloyds Banking Group?

We're on an exciting journey and there couldn't be a better time to join us. The investments we're making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities, and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive.

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.

• Any 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

Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive?