JOB TITLE: Solution Architect - Innovation and Emerging Tech

SALARY: The salary banding for this role is £68,202 - £75,780

LOCATION: Edinburgh, Halifax, Bristol, Manchester

HOURS: 35 hours, full time

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

About this opportunity

Welcome to our Emerging Tech & Innovation team. We're creating a future where customers choose Lloyds Banking Group because we regularly launch new products and services that make their financial lives better. This is an outstanding chance to join a team that celebrates curiosity, diversity and values creation!

We're looking for a Solution Architect to be part of a new Engineering Innovation team.

This new team will be dynamic, versatile, and adaptive, with a core purpose on research, experimentation and building prototypes, which could be deployed at scale across the organisation.

So, what would you be doing for us?

This is the exciting bit! As a solution architect, you'll be mainly responsible for the solution architecture required on the technical experiments we run across the team. You'll have proven experience in solution architecture practice, crafting and maintaining technical documentation.

As a keen collaborator, you'll work across the innovation team, to ensure product and experiment requirements are translated into technical solution designs, for our team of engineers.

You'll also work across the Group's engineering and architecture communities, to ensure all our experiments maintain standards of solution architecture practice, and alignment to strategic technology direction.

We're agile, so you'll need to be able to take an iterative approach in your solution designs, breaking down work and prioritising the thinks that release value allowing the rest of the team to progress.

Finally, you'll demonstrate continuous personal development, in new & emerging technologies, and will be an active member of the Group's Solution Architecture community, to ensure we're aligned to current practice.

Who are we looking for?

Do you feel passionate about innovation, emerging technology and how they can be adopted and used for our colleagues and customers? You'll be curious and excited at the prospect of stepping into the unknown whilst getting to the bottom of how things work and defining how we can implement them safely.

You'll have a developed communication toolkit, allowing you to skillfully collaborate across the innovation team and with wider teams in LBG and beyond. Being a confident facilitator, analytical thinker and problem solver, you'll challenge conventional ways of thinking, influencing positive outcomes.

You'll be adaptable, able to learn and use new skills & knowledge in varying circumstances; you're comfortable providing recommendations and thought leadership.

Working on experiments and prototypes, you're the sort of person who sees the bigger picture and can join the dots to understand the implications of our work, if we were to deploy at scale.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

From building a truly sustainable business to creating a place where people love to work, we need colleagues who are up for the challenge of our bold ambitions. Who are excited to push boundaries and make change happen. Together, we can grow with purpose.

What you'll need

Fully conversant with solution architecture practice, patterns.
Able to design complex solutions spanning different technologies, taking ownership for end to end technical designs.
Experience working across a range of modern solution architectures, including N-tier, cloud platforms (with focus on GCP and Azure), container and micro-services.
Technology cost estimation.
Practical experience crafting technical and architecture documentation.
Visual presentation: ability to communicate technical solutions in formats to both technical and non-technical audiences.

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 underrepresented 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: