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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 (Edinburgh).

Are you an expert Design Engineer looking for an amazing career opportunity as a Solution Architect? Or perhaps you’re already a Solution Architect, looking for your next exciting role?

In this role you’ll help shape the future of our Payments Architecture, using innovative technology, cloud hosting and modernising our payments platform.

About this opportunity

We’re looking for a Solution Architect who has a background in Design Engineering / Application Design to join our Domestic Lab in our Payment Services Platform. Our mission is to provide compliant and efficient payments capabilities for the Group and drive innovation to enable customers to move money confidently, quickly and securely.

In joining us you’ll focus on the following:

• Deliver business value by delivering reliable, scalable, and working software to production.
• Ensure platforms and services are built consistently with industry best practice and standards.
• Be responsible for the domain application stack, understanding application integration and E2E flow, and be comfortable communicating this at all levels, from the business design down to root-cause analysis with engineers/ developers
• Evaluate and recommend technology stack and tools.
• Work with collaborators and application teams to drive technology upgrade projects.
• Designing or modifying technical solutions to tackle technology pain points
• Take ownership for completing the IT change governance processes and deliver comprehensive IT documentation.

What we’re looking for:

• Strong Design Engineering and/ or Software Architecture background and knowledge of agile development practices with a history of technical leadership
• Experience across the entire SDLC from inception, through build to production
• You appreciate and acknowledge the impact of system design decisions on scalability, resilience, and supportability
• Ability to identify key project technology risks, and complete FMEA analysis.
• Preferred hands-on developer experience building distributed event-driven applications using Java, Spring boot etc
• Experience of API design and architecture patterns, messaging technologies (Kafka, MQ)
• Ability to discuss low-level technical requirements and issues with the development teams
• Knowledge of delivery of microservices to production
• Exposure to Systems Thinking
• Exposure to Docker and container orchestration tools e.g., Kubernetes
• Knowledge in one or more of the following: API Economy; Big Data; Cloud/ Open Source; Automation/ Robotics; Blockchain

We’d welcome the following desirable skills and experience:

• An understanding of any UK Domestic Payments (Cheques, Faster Payments, BACS).
• Legal, Regulatory & Mandatory projects in Payments areas

Why Lloyds Banking Group?

We’re on an exciting journey and there couldn’t be a better time to join us. The investments we’re making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities, and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive.

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:

• Any 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.