Solution Architect reference: 132928

End Date Monday 02 June 2025 Salary Range £90,440 - £106,400 We support flexible working – click here for more information on flexible working options Flexible Working Options Hybrid Working, Job Share Job Description Summary The purpose of the Senior Solution Architect is to orchestrate complex solution architectures with a broad architectural significance for key outcomes or epics by defining the architectures and designs that deliver our key outcomes aligning with our technology strategy. They play a substantive role in enabling teams to deliver at pace by shaping the solution architecture forward look for a lab or platform, and partner with Product Owners engineering teams and Enterprise architects. Job Description JOB TITLE: Solution Architect SALARY: £90,440 - £106,400 LOCATION(S): Leeds HOURS:  Full time WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in the above location. About this opportunity The Group is at a pivotal stage in delivering against its strategy; becoming increasingly proactive, nimble, and efficient is key to ensuring we make good decisions to maintain what differentiates us in the market. The Risk strategy, enabled by the Prudential & Analytics Platform, is key to creating this shift for the Group. We're passionate about building a collaborative, empowered, inclusive and successful team who can connect with this purpose and deliver for our customers. Prudential & Analytics (P&A) is on an exciting journey and there is no better a time to join us. The investments we are making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects; fresh possibilities have provided new ways for our people to work, learn and thrive. Currently embarking on a journey to simplify and redefine the data and technology landscape. And we need to deliver a Data & Analytics platform which allows us to deploy data products and advanced analytical (including Machine Learning) capabilities to the benefit of all our customers. You can help shape this future. You will work directly with our Engineering Lead/Product owner and the Enterprise and Solution architecture communities to shape and define the Target Solution Architecture for the Analytics Lab within the Prudential and Analytics Platform. Once agreed, our Solution Architects continuously invest in maintaining the Architecture runway underpinning our Platform teams You will act as technology enthusiast, bringing to bear your experience and your enthusiasm to help build the modern data-led organisation. About us 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 you'll need Story-telling skills to describe our Data Architecture and get agreement to achieve it. Relationship and stakeholders skills to energise our product and engineering communities. Practical experience required to define the data patterns, standards and practices we will use to guide our organisation. Knowledge to be able to talk to and understand our customers, reaching solutions that meet their needs. And any experience of these would be really useful Practical experience of designing and building cloud-based data platforms at scale. You will know and understand the benefits and trade-offs of the various approaches to building data platforms. Understanding of data engineering landscape and with this, a working knowledge of data pipelines and data mesh principles. You may have come from an engineering background in this space; although this is not essential . Working in Financial Services on Regulatory Risk deliveries. 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 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 Want to do amazing work, that 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.