Solutions Architect, Payment Services, Banking

LLoyds Banking Group

JOB TITLE: Solution Architect

SALARY: £66,860 – £81,719

LOCATION: Edinburgh, Birmingham or Halifax

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 (Edinburgh, Birmingham or Halifax).

Are you an experienced Solution Architect looking for an amazing career opportunity to help shape the future of our Payments Architecture, using cutting edge technology, cloud hosting and building our new payments platform, helping us navigate the regulatory landscape and define our products of the future?

About this Opportunity

We’re looking for Solution Architect to join our NextGen team working in IHV (International High Value) Lab. NextGen is a regulatory as well as a modernisation initiative that will be reducing the complexity of the existing payments landscape with a new, more efficient application and infrastructure that will benefit from enhanced security and resilience and flexibility.

In joining us you’ll focus on the following:

As an experienced Solution Architect in the Payments Services Platform, you’ll:

• Deliver business value by delivering reliable, scalable, and working software to production.
• Ensure platforms and services are built consistently with industry best practice and standards.
• 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

What You’ll need

• Strong Software Architecture background and knowledge of agile development practices with a history of technical leadership
• Experience across the entire software development life cycle from inception, through build to production
• You appreciate and acknowledge 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)
• Knowledge of International payments schemes including Swift CBPR+, T2, SEPA and domestic CHAPS .

And the following would be really useful

• Knowledge of delivery of microservices to production
• Exposure to Systems Thinking
• Exposure to Docker and container orchestration tools e.g., Kubernetes
• Legal, Regulatory & Mandatory projects in Payments areas
• Exposure to Finastra GPP
• Exposure to ISO 20022 payment messages

Why Lloyds Banking Group?

We’re on an exciting journey and there couldn’t be a better time to join us. The investments we’re making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities, and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive.

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:

• Any generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance
• 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.