Modern Workplace Solution Architect
Lloyds Banking Group
AWSAzureCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformPython
Senior Solution Architect – Modern Workplace
Lloyds Banking Group
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Leeds • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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💰 £70,929 - £78,810 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
AWSAzureCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformPython
About the role
- Collaborate with Enterprise Architects to align technology landscape with strategic vision.
- Influence technology roadmaps to support planning, strategy, and resource estimation.
- Engage with strategic partners and vendors to shape product capabilities.
- Lead hands-on evaluations of emerging technologies to identify customer value.
- Provide high-level cost and resource estimates to support prioritisation and budgeting.
- Design large-scale technology changes not aligned with existing feature teams.
- Guide new technology designs through governance processes.
- Review engineering designs for quality and alignment.
- Maintain logical high-level designs for products.
- Develop and uphold engineering standards, guardrails, and best practices.
- Continuously improve Modern Workplace tools and processes through optimisation and automation.
- Promote best practices by participating in guilds and knowledge-sharing forums.
Requirements
- Broad expertise across modern workplace technologies, including infrastructure, collaboration tools, devices, security, data protection, identity, automation, and APIs.
- Strong research and problem-solving skills, able to transform intricate challenges into innovative solutions.
- Credibility and influence, building trusted relationships and inspiring others with a clear vision of what’s possible through technology.
- Critical thinking and collaboration, working effectively across teams and driving outcomes through motivation and thoughtful engagement.
- Clear and confident communication, able to articulate design decisions and direction in both written and verbal formats.
- A growth mindset, continuously learning, applying new knowledge, and sharing insights to elevate team capability.
- Experience designing and testing enterprise solutions using Microsoft Intune, Entra ID, Defender for Endpoint, Office 365, Power Platform, and other modern workplace technologies.
- Scripting and automation using languages like PowerShell, Python or Bash, and tools such as GitHub Actions, Harness, and YAML pipelines.
- Working with APIs and DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines and standardised tooling for integration and delivery.
- Knowledge of current security and cloud infrastructure, including zero trust principles, security focused on identity, UEM technologies, and virtualization on Azure, AWS, or GCP.
Benefits
- 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
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Hard skills
Microsoft IntuneEntra IDDefender for EndpointOffice 365Power PlatformPowerShellPythonBashAPIsCI/CD pipelines
Soft skills
research skillsproblem-solving skillscredibilityinfluencecritical thinkingcollaborationcommunicationgrowth mindsetmotivationthoughtful engagement