Solution Architect

End date

Monday 29 April 2024

Salary range

86,964 - £102,310

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Agile Working Options

Job Share; Flexibility in when hours are worked; Hybrid Working

Job description

JOB TITLE : Solutions Architect

LOCATION : Leeds, Halifax or Manchester

HOURS : Full-time

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.

About this opportunity

Our Data-centres are the nerve centre of the organisation and where we host the banks most critical applications. LBG has taken the decision to build a pioneering datacentre to provide us with a right sized, modern and sustainable hosting location for the next 20 years and beyond.

To help us achieve this, LBG are looking to appoint a Senior Infrastructure Solution Architect with a passion for making a difference! Someone who can combine technical knowledge and analytical skills to visualise the bigger picture and help design our future hosting capabilities.

What will you be doing with us?

We believe that people don't fit succinctly into roles and above all, we value everyone's individual skills, experience, and knowledge.

Your role will include :

• Creating positive relationships with Enterprise Architecture, ensuring design decisions are aligned with overarching enterprise architectural standards and strategies
• Collaborating and leading with our platform teams to support the development and integration of roadmaps, defining migration methodologies to facilitate the movement of applications and infrastructure to the new datacentre
• Gaining a deep understanding of LBG environments and the systems integration challenges facing major transformation and migration initiatives
• Operating at an architectural level but also knowing how to design and deploy infrastructure change
• Working with technical delivery managers to support planning, costing, and brokering the interaction with SME’s
• Translating the complex and ambiguous requirements into clear and concise designs
• There will also be multiple elements of risk, compliance, and governance within the role, and you can share your knowledge to help deliver the best technical solutions for complex and significant business needs.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

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

Technical Skills and Knowledge

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 :

Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.

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