Senior Solution Architect

JOB TITLE: Senior Solution Architect  

SALARY: £70,929 - £80,000 

LOCATION(S): Edinburgh  

HOURS:  Full time  

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in the above office location  

About this opportunity  

As part of the Retirement Lab, you’ll help develop flexible, future-focused core capabilities and work directly with the Technology and Business Teams to define our Target Solution Architecture!

As a Solution Architect, the position includes acting as a technology evangelist, blending customer needs with modern, robust technologies to ensure our services are scalable and impactful. If you’re passionate about making a meaningful difference, this is your chance to help transform retirement for millions. You will join a collaborative, purposeful environment and set new standards for customer experience while leaving a lasting legacy.  

Key responsibilities:

• Deliver a prescribed budget for own area of the organisation and/or conducts complex analyses on budget progress in other areas while working within established systems.

• Identify shortcomings in compliance processes, systems, and procedures within the assigned unit or field. Recommend and implement improvements to business practices. Develop and deliver projects or workstreams within the organisation’s transition initiatives, under the mentorship of senior colleagues.  

• Develop capabilities by pursuing and investing in personal development opportunities and develops the capabilities of direct reports by working within existing development framework; provides specialised training or coaching in area of expertise to others throughout the organisation. 

• Analyses and evaluates the feasibility/relevance of proposals for complex products/services, then develops and amends as necessary with guidance from senior colleagues and/or supervises activities performed by a product development/specialist team. 

• Develops and/or delivers elements of a planning system with mentorship from senior colleagues.  

About us 

If you think all banks are the same, you’d be wrong. We’re an innovative, fast-changing business that’s shaping finance as a force for good. A bank that’s empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose. 

What you’ll need 

• Story-telling skills to describe our Target Architecture and get real agreement to achieve it.  

• The practical experience required to define the technology patterns, standards and practices we will use to guide our organisation. 

• Proven experience in decomposing legacy monolithic systems into modern, scalable microservices architectures. 

• The personality and relationship-building skills to energise our product and engineering communities. 

• The knowledge to be able to talk to and understand our customers, reaching solutions that meet their needs. 

• Experience gaining approval for designs and solutions via formal governance. 

And any experience of these would be really useful 

• Practical experience of designing and building cloud-based platforms at scale. You will know and understand the benefits and trade-offs of the various approaches to building out contemporary cloud-ready and cloud-native platforms. 

• Understand the importance and ability to design and promote reusable architecture patterns and components to drive consistency, scalability, and efficiency across solutions. 

• Strong understanding of API integration patterns and security patterns. 

• Understanding of domain driven design architectures – understanding where these are applicable and supporting implementation.

• Exposure to Retirement/Pension products.

• A working knowledge of contemporary engineering practices as well as Agile delivery methodologies. 

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: 

• A 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 

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