Cloud Architect

JOB TITLE: Cloud Architect

SALARY: £86,964 - £102,310

LOCATION(S): Edinburgh

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 our office site.

About this opportunity:

Personalised Experiences and Communications (PEC) is a business platform that sits within Consumer Relationships and plays a critical role in supporting the achievement of the Group strategic view by working closely & collaboratively across the Platform leadership team to grow by protecting and deepening customer relationships. PEC enables & delivers personalised customer communications & experiences across all channels, media and business areas supporting the Customer Relationship Growth strategy to deepen relationships with our customers across both the retail & commercial bank. This includes the data, analytics, and technology to unlock the value of differentiating our branded channel experiences, proposition, price and communication; as well as paper-free sustainable ambitions.

This exciting opportunity is within the Personalised Experiences and Communications (PEC) platform for a Cloud Architect. As Cloud Architect you'll lead, direct and shape approaches to solving technical challenges and translating solution requirements into robust cloud solutions. You will work in a highly collaborative way to drive efforts to create, build, support and improve our cloud solutions working closely with the product and engineering teams with lots of exciting new challenges. You'll be a core contributor to ensure good quality and engineering practices are followed in accordance with engineering transformation strategy.

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 will you be doing with us?

The ideal Cloud Architect will need to be able to display broad and deep technical experience with a passion for cloud engineering excellence. We are looking for a dynamic and adaptable individual, able to use and learn new skills in varying circumstances. You'll be continuously learning about technology and understanding how things work and influence positively - demonstrating the right values and behaviours and encouraging this in team members.

Essential skills and experience:

• Strong knowledge of cloud architecture, hosting patterns & services (especially GCP), cloud security, resilience, and operational excellence

• Strong understanding of microservices, containerisation, cloud native, data architectures and event-driven design concepts

• Strong understanding of API standards, security, networking, ingress/egress patterns & FinOps

• Strong understanding of data technologies - SQL/NoSQL, Big Data

• Experience working with enterprise-wide cloud patterns - networks, security, ingress/egress

• Knowledge of ML/AI and data capabilities in GCP

• Strong experience & knowledge of some key LBG development technologies (e.g. JavaScript, Java Spring Boot, Python)

• Knowledge of the SDLC & SRE

It would be great if you also had…

• Experience in the Banking & Finance industry

• Cloud Certifications, particularly GCP

• Preferable experience with ML/AI & Data Tooling in GCP

• Experience in agile / iterative design working practices

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.