Senior Solution Architect
Lloyds Banking Group
CloudGoogle Cloud PlatformMicroservicesOpenShift
Senior Solution Architect
Lloyds Banking Group
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Edinburgh • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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💰 £90,440 - £106,400 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
CloudGoogle Cloud PlatformMicroservicesOpenShift
About the role
- Lead the design of complex, end-to-end solution architectures across teams, labs, and platforms.
- Shape the solution architecture forward look to inform product roadmaps and technical planning.
- Collaborate with engineering, product, and architecture teams to align designs with strategic goals.
- Ensure solutions meet non-functional requirements including resilience, security, and scalability.
- Drive innovation and continuous improvement in solution design and delivery.
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to engineering teams.
- Participate in agile ceremonies and deliver iteratively, ensuring continuous feedback and value.
Requirements
- Strong software engineering and architecture background, with experience across the full solution development lifecycle—from inception through to production.
- Proven experience designing complex, cross-platform solutions in a large-scale agile environment.
- Strong understanding of modern cloud-native architectures, microservices, and API design.
- Experience with architectural governance, risk management, and technical debt mitigation.
- Experience with Public and Private Cloud Solutions, ideally including Google Cloud Platform and OpenShift Container Platform.
- Excellent partner collaboration skills, with the ability to communicate effectively across technical and non-technical audiences.
- Experience delivering Digital Transformation Solutions, with a deep understanding of system design decisions and their impact on scalability, resilience, and supportability.
Benefits
- A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
- Annual bonus award, subject to Group performance
- Share schemes including free shares
- 30 days’ holiday, plus bank holidays
- Flexible benefits tailored to your lifestyle
- Wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
solution architecturesoftware engineeringcloud-native architecturesmicroservicesAPI designarchitectural governancerisk managementtechnical debt mitigationdigital transformation solutionssystem design
Soft skills
technical leadershipcollaborationcommunicationinnovationcontinuous improvementpartner collaborationfeedback delivery