Senior Solution Architect (API Lab)
Salary: £92,701 – £109,060
Location: Edinburgh
Hours: Full-time – 35 hours per week
Working pattern: Hybrid – spend at least two days per week (40%) at the Edinburgh office; flexibility for disabled colleagues.
About this opportunity
At Lloyds Banking Group, we’re helping Britain prosper by transforming the way technology enables our customers, colleagues, and businesses. Through strategic investment in cloud platforms, modern engineering, automation, and digital services, we’re creating scalable, secure, and resilient technology platforms that power some of the UK’s most critical financial journeys.
The API & Digital Services Platform is a strategic engineering capability that enables the creation, management, discovery, governance, and consumption of APIs at enterprise scale.
Within this platform the API Lab delivers the strategic API ecosystem supporting thousands of engineers across the Group. It provides consistent, safe, and secure API design, build, publish, secure, discover, consume, and operate capabilities, accelerating innovation and reducing duplication.
The API Lab focuses on four strategic product domains:
- API Gateway – Enterprise API runtime and management capabilities across on‑premises and cloud environments.
- API Marketplace – The Group’s strategic platform for API discovery, onboarding, subscription, and reuse.
- API Conformance Suite – Automated API governance, standards validation, compliance, quality engineering, and policy enforcement capabilities.
- API Enablement Platform – Developer self‑service, engineering automation, Internal Developer Platform (IDP), and API lifecycle acceleration capabilities.
Together these capabilities support the API Lab’s long‑term vision of delivering a scalable, secure, resilient, highly automated, and developer‑centric API ecosystem that accelerates innovation while maintaining strong governance, security, and operational excellence.
What you’ll be doing
- Define and own solution architecture across the API Lab portfolio.
- Develop strategic architecture roadmaps aligned with business priorities and enterprise technology strategy.
- Drive architectural consistency across multiple products, teams, and engineering domains.
- Influence platform‑wide decisions that impact thousands of developers across the Group.
- Shape long‑term investment priorities and technology direction.
- Promote modern engineering practices and cloud‑native design principles.
- Partner with Product Owners and Engineering Leads to align strategy, architecture, and delivery.
- Act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders across the organisation.
- Champion innovation while ensuring solutions remain secure, resilient, supportable, and compliant.
Why join us?
We’re transforming at pace, investing billions in our people, data and tech to meet the needs of 28 million customers. We’re growing, and we’d love you to be part of the journey.
What we’re looking for
- Significant experience in Solution Architecture within large‑scale enterprise environments.
- Proven track record delivering complex platform and digital transformation initiatives.
- Experience defining architecture strategy across multiple products and technology domains.
- Deep expertise in enterprise API ecosystems.
- Strong understanding of API operating models, governance, and lifecycle management.
- Experience influencing senior business and technology stakeholders.
- Strong knowledge of Architecture & Design (e.g. TOGAF, Domain‑Driven Design).
- Strong knowledge and practical experience of:
- GCP
- Harness
- Apigee
- KONG
- Developer Portal
- API Ecosystem
- Security
- SRE
Benefits
- 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
Diversity and inclusion
Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities. We’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.
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