Senior Solutions Architect

** End Date
** Sunday 25 January 2026
** Salary Range**£72,702 - £80,780
** Flexible Working Options
** Hybrid Working, Job Share
** Job Description Summary**.
** Job Description
**** JOB TITLE**:
Senior Solutions Architect
** SALARY:** £70,929 - £80,000
** LOCATION(S):
** Leeds, Bristol or Birmingham
*
* HOURS:

** Full time
** WORKING PATTERN:
** Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in an above office site

A great opportunity has arisen for a Solutions Architect to work within the Segments and Propositions Platform to join product engineering cross functional teams! As a Solutions Architect your responsibilities will be delivering the highest quality solution design, drawing upon your engineering expertise, whilst being open minded to the opportunities the cloud provides!

The Segments and Propositions Platform will continue to build the new proposition Lloyds 360, create new and intuitive digital journeys to support customers to save and invest as well as deliver new banking and investment products and services. Sitting within Consumer Relationships, our Segments and Propositions platform will drive us to develop long-term relationships with a key segment of customers with over £75,000 in income or investable assets.

We have launched a new Digital Advice journey on the mobile app in the Lloyds 360 Space with Save and Invest calculator going live recently.
** What you’ll be doing
*** Lead and manage the design of cloud native solutions considering functional and non-functional aspects including the deployment & build approach, automation, route to live and support model.
* Optimise cloud native solutions for cost, performance, security, compliance and regulatory requirements.
* Design and implement event driven microservice architecture supporting LBG’s competitive position.
* Mentoring other engineers to deliver high quality and cloud led solutions for our Bank’s customers.
* Lead, direct and shape approaches to solving technical challenges and translating business requirements into technical solutions.
* Established experiences partnering with other collaborators such as Enterprise, Security, Data & Infrastructure architects to create customer value or address business problems.
* Support Product Owners & Platform Leads in identifying, articulating and impact assessing software & infrastructure currency risks or issues, offering options & recommendations on action planning & continuously ever-greening solutions/systems within the Platform.

If you think all banks are the same, you’d be wrong. We’re an innovative, fast-changing business that’s shaping finance as a force for good. A bank that’s empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose.
** What you’ll need
*** Strong Solution Architecture experience, using a range of modern technologies (Single Page Applications technologies such as React

JS), Mobile Native and Cross Platform Apps (Apple iOS, Android or React Native), Microservices, APIs and cloud technologies.
* Experience in Event Driven Architectures & Streaming Platforms (Kafka).
* Strong experience working with API standards, security and gateway patterns.
* Working experience with data technologies – SQL/No

SQL, Big Data.
* Implementation experience in one of the cloud platforms, specifically GCP.
* API Gateways and Management Platforms (such as IBM API Connect, IBM Data Power, Apigee.
* or Microsoft Azure API Manager).Good understating of cloud storage, security, networking and resource provisioning.
** It would be great if you had…
*** Certification in GCP.* “Professional Cloud Architect”Strong experience in data analysis.
* Experience in agile / iterative design working practices
* Knowledge of AI.
** 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…