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Solution Architect - Intelligent Automation

Lloyds Banking Group, Edinburgh

Solution Architect - Intelligent Automation

£87610

Lloyds Banking Group, Edinburgh

  • Full time
  • Permanent
  • Onsite working

Posted today, 10 Jan | Get your application in now to be one of the first to apply.

Closing date: Closing date not specified

job Ref: 85d1b0a579ec4010b8668fa66de38e1c

Full Job Description

  • 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.
  • Promoting adaptive design practises to drive collaboration across Platform teams centring on a common vision with continuous feedback.
  • Owning the technical design risks or issues and driving resolution through architectural or agile practises.
  • Participating in Agile ceremonies, elicit requirements, shape & validate designs or prototypes that deliver customer outcomes that align to our target architecture.
  • 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.
  • Supporting Product Owners & Platform Leads on the technical aspect of activities linked with Platform financial estimation, spend or risk management processes in line with the platform roadmap., This exciting opportunity is within our Intelligent Process Automation lab for a Solution Architect. As a Solution Architect you have responsibility for the following
  • You'll lead, direct and shape approaches to solving technical challenges and translating business requirements into technical solutions.
  • You'll work in a highly collaborative way to drive efforts to create, build, support and improve our software working closely with the product and engineering teams with lots of exciting new challenges.
  • You'll be a core contributor to ensure good quality and engineering practices are followed in accordance with engineering transformation strategy.
    • An ideal solution architect will need to be able to display broad and deep technical experience with a passion for engineering excellence. We are looking for dynamic and adaptable individual able to use and learn new skills. You'll be curious about technology and understanding how things work and influence positively - demonstrating the right values and behaviours and encouraging this in team members. What you'll do
  • Collaborate with Product Owners, Platform Leads, Enterprise Architects & Engineers to create the Architectural runway for your lab
  • Be responsible for our application architecture and the delivery of our engineering design deliverables and managing architecture decisions through formal governance processes
  • Manage the IT Roadmap, driving best practice initiatives
  • Ensure IT compliance and governance policies are met
  • Partner with fellow solution architects & service providers to elaborate on solutions, their interfaces and validating technology assumptions, evaluating implementation alternatives and software lifecycle risks, assumptions, issues & dependencies.
  • Provide 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.
  • Promote adaptive design practises to drive collaboration across Platform teams centring on a common vision with continuous feedback.
  • Capture technical design risks or issues and drive resolution through architectural or agile practices.

    Prior experience in a solution architecture position, strong experience of solution design, security and resilience patterns
  • Strong knowledge of microservices, containerisation, cloud native and event-driven design concepts.
  • Good knowledge of infrastructure and security architecture practices and concerns
  • Have played an active part in architecture and design governance
  • Experience of API Gateways & Management Platforms such as IBM API Connect, IBM DataPower, Apigee, Microsoft Azure API Manager, or similar
  • Cloud Platform as a Service or similar offerings - preferably GCP.
  • Appreciates Architectural Frameworks such as TOGAF, Archimate, Software patterns or similar.
    • It would be great if you also had
  • Experience in the banking and finance industry.
  • Experience with Process Automation
  • Preferable experience with Python and Big Data technologies including ML
  • Exposure to open-source technologies and frameworks
  • Experience in agile / iterative design working practices
  • Knowledge of AI

    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. 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
    • If you're excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We'd love to hear from you. Our continued commitment to helping Britain prosper means that as a colleague you can make a difference to customers, businesses and communities. Together we have a key role to play in shaping the bank of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll continue to have opportunities to learn, grow and develop. We're focused on creating a values-led culture, and our approach to inclusion and diversity means that we all have the opportunity to make a real difference, together. As part of the Group's commitments as a result of ring-fencing legislation, colleagues based in the Islands are required to be exclusively dedicated to the non-ring-fenced bank and its subsidiaries. This means that colleagues who are based in the Islands would not be able to undertake roles for the Ring Fenced Bank from their existing location and would need to consider relocation when applying for roles. 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.

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