Solution Architect

End Date Monday 24 June 2024 Salary Range £78,849 - £87,610 We support flexible working click here for more information on flexible working options Flexible Working Options Hybrid Working, Job Share Job Description Summary . Job Description Job Title: Solution Architect Location: London or Chester Hours: Full-time Salary: £68,202 - £87,610 (depending on location) Working Pattern: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites. About this opportunity A great opportunity has arisen to work within the Financial Wellbeing Platform as a solutions architect, where you can play a pivotal role in the next stage of our transformation journey. Our Platform s purpose is to create a leading experience to help our customers before, during and after financial difficulty. You can ensure we help them become more financially resilient and improve their overall financial wellbeing. We aim to achieve this purpose through improving colleague and customer tools that enable our customers to better handle their day-to-day finances, and by simplifying the Customer Financial Assistance (CFA) systems through an increased focus on Automation, DevOps, Cloud technologies and Rationalisation. Our aim is to generate a forward-thinking agile culture that supports CFA in delivering high quality, efficient and positive impact outcomes for our customers. The Solution Architect is vital in ensuring the products we deliver are fit for purpose and meet the quality and standards that our customers expect. You will realise business value by delivering reliable, scalable and working software to production. Ensuring platforms and services are built consistent with industry standard methodology and standards and be responsible for the design and solutions for the domain application stack. Understanding application integration and E2E flow, and are comfortable communicating this at all levels, from senior partners down to root-cause analysis with developers. What you ll do An ideal Solution Architect will have a can-do attitude, interest in exploring technologies beyond your core skills, willing to learn, highly motivated and with a passion for working with people, working in a strong collaborative way to drive efforts to create, build, support and improve our applications. You'll be a core contributor to ensure good quality and engineering practices are followed in accordance with engineering transformation strategy. Architect customer and colleague facing applications, APIs, integrations with other systems using modern application and cloud native patterns. Solution architects design and document the overall architecture of technology solutions, ensuring alignment with business objectives and requirements. You ll explore and evaluate technology assumptions, implementation benefits, drawbacks and software lifecycle risks, issues and dependencies. Responsible for our application architecture and the delivery of our engineering design deliverables and managing architecture decisions through formal governance processes. SAs serve as a bridge between technical and business aspects, ensuring that the proposed solutions meet product goals and organizational technology strategy. What you ll need We believe that people don't fit neatly into roles, and we value everyone's individual skills, experience, and knowledge it's what makes you amazing! As a minimum to be considered, we would like to see demonstrated experience of: Hands-on experience in system design/architecture. Exposure in building solutions with API, microservices, event-driven architecture, software architecture patterns. Expertise in modern technologies and application integration (RESTful Services, HTTP, OAuth), messaging, integration and data streaming technologies (Kafka, MQ etc..), caching (Couchbase) & database (RDBMS and NoSQL) tools. Excellent knowledge on Cloud native architecture with GCP preferred. Previous hands-on experience on modern programming languages and application frameworks like Java 8+, SpringBoot, JavaScript, Golang, etc. Ability to create solutions at conceptual, logical, and physical levels. Interpret the application/feature/component design to develop the same in accordance with specifications. It would be great if you had Professional Cloud Architect certification Experience from a Collections, Retail Banking domain. Exposure to modern Full stack (UI/Mobile and Backend) application architecture, Software development, build, deployment practices. Have played an active part in architecture and design governance. 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 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! 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. #J-18808-Ljbffr