Senior Solution Architect

End Date Wednesday 05 November 2025 Salary Range £70,929 - £78,810 Flexible Working Options Hybrid Working Job Description Summary . Job Description Job Title: Senior Solution Architect Salary: £70,929 - £78,810 Location: Manchester Hours: Full time Working Pattern: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week currently, or 40% of our time, at our Manchester office.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! About this opportunity You'll be part of Core Banking in Consumer Relationships Platform working in the Next Generation Core lab. The lab is focusing on building new core banking platform that will support servicing our customers through multiple channels and will enable the bank to create new innovative products for our customers using groundbreaking cloud-based technology platform. You'll be comfortable driving the detailed design and implementation of enterprise-grade software that enable seamless integration between our wider banking ecosystem and our next generation ledger. The core ledger technology we're using is provided by Thought Machine, that we install and manage on our own public cloud environments.This will be a critical role within the lab engineering team, developing cloud-native and event-based integration layers, orchestration services, and platform capabilities that allow product and channel teams across the bank to integrate with our greenfield platform. What you'll do Collaborating with Product Owners, Platform Leads, Enterprise Architects & Engineers to create the Architectural runway for our Platform teams. Once baselined, our Solution Architects continuously invest in maintaining the Architecture runway underpinning our Platform teams. Partner with Enterprise Architecture & service providers to elaborate on solutions, their interfaces and validating technology assumptions, evaluating implementation alternatives and software lifecycle risks, assumptions, issues & dependencies. Providing analysis of options and deliver end-to-end solution designs using relevant architectural building blocks as well as producing designs for features that enable frequent incremental customer value delivery. Owning the technical design risks or issues and driving resolution through architectural or agile practises. Leveraging industry best practise, frameworks, standards & policies in creating opportunities & value for our customers. Contributing to the financial investment process to obtain funding for key solution opportunities. Setting guiding principles and solution success criteria for platform capability or feature development across our Platforms. Providing oversight & foster built in quality, decoupled & modernised architectures. Supporting Product Owners & Platform Leads in identifying, articulating and impact assessing software & infrastructure currency risks or issues, offering options & recommendations on action planning & continuously evergreening solutions/systems within the Platform. As a Senior Solution Architect, you'll also hold overall responsibility for leading and directing a diverse workforce to achieve the business strategy, Inspiring people, achieving their full commitment to do the extraordinary. What you'll need Good understanding of design patterns and build activities across the SDLC including unit testing, system testing, integration, security and performance testing. Experience integrating with distributed event-based systems (e.g., Kafka), API gateways, and service meshes. Have experiences in systems engineering or solution architecture with appreciation of software development processes such as Behaviour Driven Development & Test Driven Development. Demonstrate strong understanding of solution & software architecture patterns. Experience in partnering & collaborating with Enterprise, Security, Data & Infrastructure architects to create customer value or tackle business problems. Proficient & demonstrable experience in leading activities associated to Architectural Governance, Risk Management or Compliance processes. Familiarity of Architectural Frameworks such as TOGAF, Archimate, Cloud Architectures or similar. 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 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. With 320 years under our belt, we're used to change, and today is no different. Join us and help drive this change, shaping the future of finance whilst working at pace to deliver for our customers.Here, you'll do the best work of your career. Your impact will be amplified by our scale as you learn and develop, gaining skills for the future.