Senior Solutions Architect

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Job Title: Senior Solution Architect

Location: London

Salary: £100,657 - £118,420

Hours: Full time

Working Pattern: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in office. About usWe'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 opportunityIn the Economic Crime Prevention (ECP) Platform, our mission is to reduce harm to our communities by enhancing the Group's capability to prevent, detect and respond to economic crime. The Platform sits within Consumer Relationships and plays a critical role in providing services across the whole Group. What you'll doAs a Senior Solution Architect, you'll also hold overall responsibility for leading and directing a diverse workforce to achieve the business strategy, Inspiring people, achieving their full commitment to do the extraordinary. Collaborating with Product Owners, Platform Leads, Enterprise Architects & Engineers to create the Architectural runway for our Platform teams.Providing analysis of options and deliver end-to-end solution designs using relevant architectural building blocks as well as producing designs for features that enable frequent incremental customer value delivery.Promoting adaptive design practises to drive collaboration across Platform teams centring on a common vision with continuous feedback.Owning the technical design risks or issues and driving resolution through architectural or agile practises.Setting guiding principles and solution success criteria for platform capability or feature development across our Platforms.Providing oversight & foster built in quality, decoupled & modernised architectures.Makes a significant improvement on short-term or long-term business performance by recommending authoritative technical and/or professional solutions.Develops innovative solutions by integrating and analysing complex and diverse information sources.Manages a significant portion of the organisation's risk management and/or control process, contributing to the development and implementation of risk management policies and procedures.Initiates, formulates and implements new business practices for own discipline, while managing the development and/or delivery of a significant element of the organisation's change management programme.Takes responsibility for implementing formal development frameworks for a substantial department. What you'll needStrong experience of solution design, security & resilience patterns Strong knowledge of microservices, containerisation, cloud native and event-driven design concepts Strong understanding of API standards, security and gateway patterns Strong understanding of data technologies - SQL/NoSQL, Big Data Knowledge of cloud architecture, in particular GCP Knowledge of monolith to microservice patterns Strong experience & knowledge of some key LBG development technologies (e.g. JavaScript, Java Spring Boot, Python)Excellent Stakeholder and Relationship management skills.Strong ability to influence customers at a senior level across job familiesStrong understanding of building applications through containerised microservices-based architectures, with a working-to-strong understanding of cloud methodologies About working for usOur 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.Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more.