Solution Architect

JOB TITLE: Solutions Architect - Mass Affluent Platform

SALARY: £78,849 - £87,610

LOCATION(S): London

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 London Office

About this opportunity

A great opportunity has arisen for a Solutions Architect to work within the Mass Affluent Platform to join product engineering cross functional teams. As a Solutions Architect your responsibilities will be delivering the highest quality solution design, drawing upon your engineering expertise, whilst being open minded to the opportunities the cloud provides.

What you'll be doing

• Lead and manage the design of cloud native solutions considering functional and non-functional aspects including the deployment & build approach, automation, route to live and support model.
• Optimise cloud native solutions for cost, performance, security, compliance and regulatory requirements.
• Design and implement event driven microservice architecture supporting LBG's competitive position.
• Mentoring other engineers to deliver high quality and cloud led solutions for our Bank's customers.
• Lead, direct and shape approaches to solving technical challenges and translating business requirements into technical solutions.
• Established experiences partnering with other collaborators such as Enterprise, Security, Data & Infrastructure architects to create customer value or address business problems.
• Support Product Owners & Platform Leads in identifying, articulating and impact assessing software & infrastructure currency risks or issues, offering options & recommendations on action planning & continuously ever-greening solutions/systems within the Platform.

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

Specifically, we're looking for people who have

• Strong Solution Architecture experience, using a range of modern technologies (Single Page Applications technologies such as ReactJS), Mobile Native and Cross Platform Apps (Apple iOS, Android or React Native), Microservices, APIs and cloud technologies.
• Experience in Event Driven Architectures & Streaming Platforms (Kafka).
• Strong experience working with API standards, security and gateway patterns.
• Working experience with data technologies - SQL/NoSQL, Big Data.
• Implementation experience in one of the cloud platforms, specifically GCP.
• API Gateways and Management Platforms (such as IBM API Connect, IBM DataPower, Apigee or Microsoft Azure API Manager).
• Good understanding of cloud storage, security, networking and resource provisioning.

It would be great if you had

• Certification in GCP "Professional Cloud Architect".
• Strong experience in data analysis.
• Experience in agile / iterative design working practices.
• Knowledge of AI.

Our focus is to ensure we are 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 is why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We are disability confident. So, if you would 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 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.

Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow, and thrive? Apply today and find out more.

Join our journey.