Job Description
Who is Lloyds Banking Group?
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Lloyds Banking Group is the UK's largest Digital, Retail and Commercial Bank with a focus on Helping Britain Prosper. We're on the mission to build the bank of the future, and we would love you to play your part in it.
Continuing our extensive transformation programme, we're redefining what a bank is from the inside out. Our technology, our culture, and our mind-set is changing to craft a true engineering-led organisation.
We're committed to employing a diverse and inclusive workforce, reflective of the customers and communities we serve - where all our colleagues can be themselves and succeed on merit.
This role is Edinburg based, so please only apply if able to work in this location at least 2 days per week.
Salary & Benefits: £61,911- £72,230
About the Team - Commercial Lending Platform - Asset & Invoice Finance
We're creating exciting opportunities within the Working Capital Lab to improve customer experiences for our Commercial Banking clients for years to come.
We're looking for someone who is passionate, inspiring and customer-obsessed, ensuring that the team are always focused on the priorities that will deliver the best outcomes for our customers and colleagues.
We're hugely proud of the relationships we hold with our clients and key partners as trusted delivery providers. This is key to our success.
Our culture brings together experienced, hardworking people, from a diverse group of backgrounds that enjoy a collaborative and innovative environment that supports flexible and agile working, always learning and improving ourselves and sharing knowledge.
What would you get involved with?
As a Solution Architect within the lab you'll be shaping the strategic roadmap for the lab and our application / infrastructure estate. Working alongside our Enterprise Architects, Lead Solution Architect and Engineers you'll also engage in hands on design activity for key initiatives and teams, ensuring the right solutions are put in place to modernise and future proof our estate.
As well as guiding and communicating our enterprise Vision through Solution Design, you'll play a significant part in keeping our customers safe, through smart, pragmatic design choices that can be built, modified, and operated in a fast-paced agile environment. Your contribution will be instrumental to our strategy of simplifying, modernising, and de-risking the Working Capital technology landscape, enabling the Bank of the Future and ultimately driving value for customers and shareholders. This is a key role at the financial heart of LBG, underpinning the long-term sustainability and integrity of the organisation.
Encouraging the right culture is key and you'll embrace a "Fail Fast, Learn Faster" approach. Experimenting new ways of engineering and adopting a test and learn approach, with a focus on learning and continuous improvement.
To be considered for this job we would like you to have the following:
We encourage people from a range of role and industry backgrounds but do need to see the following as a minimum for consideration
Must have:
- Experience designing innovative solutions in an increasingly digital world - understanding how modern software applications are built and delivered is key.
- Good knowledge of infrastructure and security architecture practices and concerns.
- Have played an active part in architecture and design governance.
- Proven track record of assessing business needs and translating them into relevant solutions.
- Experience in delivering change involving 3rd parties, collaborating and working together to achieve a shared goal.
- Strong interpersonal skills and an ability to connect with technical and non-technical people
- Understanding of design standards, architecture, and design governance
Nice to have:
- Financial Services background specifically Commercial Banking (Invoice Finance or Lending) experience would useful, but it is not mandatory
- Ideally you'll have previous career experience in Software Engineering however this is not essential.
- Sound understanding of Cloud methodologies and experience designing applications through containerised microservices-based architectures.
- TOGAF or equivalent qualification / experience.
Don't worry if you don't tick all these boxes; we're open minded and keen to invest in enthusiastic and positive people!
What can we offer you in return?
In line with our strategy to be the Best Bank for Colleagues, we encourage a culture of professional development. You'll have numerous opportunities to stretch and develop beyond core role responsibilities. In addition, recognition for colleague contribution and performance is a truly meaningful element of our colleague charter.
You'll be rewarded with excellent benefits, personal development and a career that's enriching and full of opportunity!
As well as a competitive salary, you'll receive:
- A Discretionary Performance Share Award
- Generous pension contribution
- 30 Days leave plus bank holidays
- A flexible cash pot (4% of base salary) to spend on benefits or take cash
- Private health cover
- Share Schemes
So why should you apply?
We're committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve, and to building an inclusive environment where all our colleagues can be themselves and succeed on merit. We support the principles of agile working and are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. We're an equal opportunity employer and deeply value diversity within our organisation.
We'll ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
We are passionate about diversity and equal opportunity with industry recognition across gender, ethnicity, disability, LGBTQ+ and families.
And we're proud to have received these industry recognitions: Stonewall Top Private Sector Employer, Top10 Employer for Working Families, The Times Top 50 Employer for Women and both Gold Standard and Best Workplace Adjustments Process from the Business Disability Forum.
Are you interested in joining us? Apply today, we'd love to hear from you
Together we'll make it possible