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Job Description Summary

At Lloyds Banking Group, we’re inspired by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper.

We have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Solution Architect to be based from either London or Edinburgh. We offer a competitive base salary £61, 176 - £76, 470 (London only), or £52, 912 - £66, 140 (Edinburgh) plus the competitive benefits below.

Job Description

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The Group has approximately 40% of the nation’s domestic payment transactions passing through its systems, processing tens of billions of pounds in value daily. Our Payments, Fraud and Financial Crime (PFFC) IT team is at the heart of it all as we develop and maintain capability to become the best bank for customer. Would you like to help us deliver exciting customer driven solutions?

About the role

As the Bank moves to building out a strategic roadmap, both from an application infrastructure and tooling, PFFC are embracing this and building capability to do enable this transformation. The Payment microservices team is an agile based delivery team, building key strategic microservices for the Payments estate, supporting several category A services for the organisation.

You\'ll deliver business value by delivering reliable, scalable, and working software to production. You\'ll also ensure platforms and services are built consistently with industry best practice and standards. You\'ll 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.

So, what would you be doing for us?

• Understand the end-to-end payments application stack
• Help deliver reliable, scalable, and functionally working software to the customer.
• Work with feature teams’ technical direction and be the driver for all technical/solution decisions
• Drive and support agile ways of working.
• You\'re able to prioritize technical debt and value delivery keeping both tactical and strategic challenges in mind.
• You\'ll support and drive where necessary on key architecture decisions.
• You\'ll support strategic system and process improvements, interventions, and upgrades.
• Comfortable mentoring both technical and non-technical colleagues about engineering.
• Promote DevOps culture and practices.

What minimum skills and background experience we need from you:

• A Software Engineering background working across the entire software development life cycle from inception, through build to production
• A clear understanding of the impact of system design decisions on scalability, resilience, and supportability
• Experience of API design and architecture patterns, messaging technologies (Kafka, MQ)
• Exposure to modern application frameworks (Spring boot Java etc)
• Exposure to Open Banking architecture framework.

You have a record designing business value through sound and fully rounded engineering methods and principles, ensuring platforms and software are built consistently with relevant patterns and practices. You\'ll also have strong stakeholder engagement experience and a passion for mentoring other engineers, driving a strong team culture!

We’d also welcome the following desirable experience:

• Knowledge of agile development practices with a history of technical leadership.
• Technical and practical understanding of Urban Code, Jenkins, Spring boot, MQ, WebSphere, Unix, Java, WAS and Jira/Confluence.
• Knowledge of delivery of microservices to production.
• Exposure to Systems Thinking.
• Exposure to Docker and container orchestration tools e.g., Kubernetes.

Ideally, you\'ll be knowledgeable in any of the following payments areas: UK Domestic Payments (Cheques, Faster Payments, BACS), International Payments (SWIFT/SEPA), Trade, Legal, Regulatory & Mandatory projects in Payment’s areas, New Payments Architecture.

Together we make it possible.

Our culture

A role within our team will provide the chance to work flexibly from working full time, part time or compressed hours. Our learning culture is important, and we’ll continuously strive to improve your knowledge and skills in the role. We\'ll take your personal and professional development very seriously and enable you to make a positive difference to the overall teams\' mission.

We\'re an equal opportunity employer and deeply value diversity within our organisation.

Furthermore, we\'ll ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process and to perform essential job functions.

What we can offer you:

In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a great package that includes a 4% flexible benefit (take a cash-sum / paid with salary, a variable discretionary bonus reward, generous 15% pension contribution, 30 days holidays plus bank holidays, private medical as well as access to a range of share schemes and financial products!

Join us and be part of an inclusive, values-led culture that celebrates diversity, equal opportunity and provides opportunities for flexible working.

Together we\'ll make it possible. Are you interested in joining us? Apply today; we’d love to hear from you...

At Lloyds Banking Group, we\'re driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain recover. 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\'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.