Job Description

End Date Wednesday 23 July 2025
Salary Range 90,440 - 106,400
Flexible Working Options Hybrid Working
Summary .

JOB TITLE: Lead Solutions Architect
SALARY: 90,440 - 106,440
LOCATION: Edinburgh / Leeds
HOURS: Full time
WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in the Edinburgh or Leeds office
About this opportunity:
We are building contemporary, services-driven architecture which creates opportunities to digitise & deliver excellent customer journeys, business outcomes and meets group strategic goals. We need to simplify and redefine our technology and data landscape. And we need to deliver a set of flexible, future-focused core platform capabilities to the benefit of all our customers. You can help shape this future.
As Lead Solutions Architect, you will be responsible for solutions design and architecture across our multi-brand, multi-tenanted direct to consumer and intermediary wealth digital technology estate and its eco-system. The digital sites underpin external facing journeys for multiple user profiles, multiple LBG and white label propositions with complex internal and external integration points.
About us
Like the modern Britain we serve, we're evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We're growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too...
What you'll need:

• Experience leading complex architectural change involving multiple systems evolving together
• Extensive knowledge of web and API architecture patterns including microservices, CQRS and publish-subscribe
• Experience designing solutions for security, reliability and scale
• Security patterns such as authentication/single-sign-on (e.g. OAuth) as well as encryption both in-transit and at-rest

And any experience of these would be really useful

• Practical experience of designing and building cloud-based platforms at scale (GCP, Azure or AWS)
• Understanding of domain driven design architectures and building event-driven systems
• Experience owning the architectural strategy for a domain or system
• Leading & managing other architects
• Ability to prototype innovations and novel solutions using any tech stack
• Content management frameworks and tools

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.

• 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's 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.