End Date: Wednesday 29 July 2026. Salary Range: £92,701 – £109,060. We support flexible working – click here for more information on flexible working options.
Flexible Working Options: Hybrid Working, Job Share.
Job Description Summary
The Senior Solution Architect orchestrates complex solution architectures with broad significance for key outcomes or epics, defining architectures and designs that deliver our key outcomes in line with our technology strategy. They enable teams to deliver at pace by shaping solution architecture for the API Lab or platform and partner with Product Owners, engineering teams, and Enterprise architects.
Job Title / Salary / Location / Hours / Working Pattern
JOB TITLE: Senior Solution Architect (API Lab)SALARY: £92,701 – £109,060LOCATION(S): EdinburghHOURS: Full‑time – 35 hours per weekWORKING PATTERN: Hybrid – at least two days per week, or 40% of time at our Edinburgh office site. Colleagues with disabilities can be supported with workplace adjustments and hybrid working expectations in line with our Flexibility Works policy.
About this opportunity
The API & Digital Services Platform is a strategic engineering capability within Lloyds Banking Group, enabling the creation, management, discovery, governance, and consumption of APIs at enterprise scale. Within the platform, the API Lab delivers the strategic API ecosystem that supports thousands of engineers across the Group, enabling consistent and safe design, build, publish, secure, discover, consume, and operate of APIs while accelerating innovation and reducing duplication.
The API Lab is responsible for 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.
These capabilities support the API Lab’s long‑term vision of 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.
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, and SRE.
Benefits
- Generous pension contribution of up to 15%.
- Annual performance‑related bonus.
- Share schemes including free shares.
- Benefits that adapt to lifestyle, such as discounted shopping.
- 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays.
- Wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies.
Our commitment to diversity and inclusion
We recognize that great talent comes from many backgrounds. If you have relevant, transferable experience, we encourage you to apply. Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion, creating an environment where everyone can thrive, learn and develop.
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