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Senior Solution Architect

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Posting date: 25 November 2025
Salary: £104,686 to £123,160 per year
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 09 December 2025
Location: London, London, EC2Y5AU
Company: Lloyds Banking Group
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 135913_1764076880

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Summary

JOB TITLE: Senior Solution Architect

SALARY:  £104,686 - £123,160
LOCATION: London
HOURS: Full time - 35 hours per week
WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in an office site Our Mission We're on a mission to build the bank of the future, and we need your help to do it. We're redefining what a bank is from the inside out. Our technology and our culture are changing to craft a true engineering-led organisation. Become part of our diverse team, and you'll experience a rare opportunity to make a difference to the lives of millions through our brands like Halifax, Bank of Scotland, Lloyds, and Scottish Widows (among others). Our flat teams will encourage and empower you to make decisions, build positive relationships, and deliver a meaningful difference to our customers, colleagues, and communities. Our mentors will nurture your talent and encourage you to further develop yourself and your career. About the Personal Lab Our mission is to securely manage customer data for Lloyds Banking Group, ensuring it is accessible for authorized purposes while maintaining performance, resilience, and data integrity. We also strive to uphold top-tier engineering standards. About you As a Senior Solution Architect, you thrive talking with stakeholders and designing innovative solutions that meet their requirements. Your designs are clean, easy to comprehend and remain cost effective to change over time. You enjoy designing for a cloud environment and know how to benefit from elasticity and resilience whilst remaining secure. More specifically we'd like you to have much of the following, but it's ok if you don't check every box:

  • Proficient in interpreting diverse stakeholder requirements and transforming them into coherent, innovative designs that align with the strategic objectives of the organisation

  • Skilled at communicating designs to engineering teams and helping them break work down into deliverables

  • Excellent diagramming techniques for both data and system modelling

  • Experienced at designing performant and scalable systems that are cost effective to maintain and operate

  • Experienced with event-driven, restful, micro-service architectures as well as the SOLID design principles

  • Experienced at data modelling and domain segregation

  • Experienced at designing data pipelines for cloud platforms (ideally GCP)

  • Good at articulating architecture trade-offs and selecting architectures according to best fit

  • Follow a security first architecture approach

  • Knowledge of Java, OOP, data structures and algorithms

  • Have a working knowledge of Agile and be familiar with its values and principles

  • Enjoy mentoring and motivating the teams around you

  • Have a growth mindset

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 performance-related bonus

* 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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