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They play a substantive role in enabling teams to deliver at pace by shaping the solution architecture forward look for a lab or platform, and partner with Product Owners engineering teams and Enterprise architects.Job Description\nJOB TITLE: Senior Solution Architect (API Lab)\nSALARY: £92,701 - £109,060\nLOCATION(S): Edinburgh\nHOURS: Full-time - 35 hours per week\nWORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our Edinburgh office site. Colleagues with disabilities can be supported with workplace adjustments including hybrid working expectations in line with our Flexibility Works policy.\nAbout this opportunity\nAt 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\nThe 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.\nWithin the platform, the API Lab is responsible for delivering the strategic API ecosystem that supports thousands of engineers across the Group. The Lab enables teams to design, build, publish, secure, discover, consume, and operate APIs consistently and safely, while accelerating innovation and reducing duplication.\nThe API Lab is responsible for four strategic product domains:\nAPI Gateway - Enterprise API runtime and management capabilities across on-premises and cloud environments.\n\nAPI Marketplace - The Group's strategic platform for API discovery, onboarding, subscription, and reuse.\n\nAPI Conformance Suite - Automated API governance, standards validation, compliance, quality engineering, and policy enforcement capabilities.\n\nAPI Enablement Platform - Developer self-service, engineering automation, Internal Developer Platform (IDP), and API lifecycle acceleration capabilities\n\nTogether, 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\nWhat you’ll be doing\nDefine and own solution architecture across the API Lab portfolio.\n\nDevelop strategic architecture roadmaps aligned with business priorities and enterprise technology strategy.\n\nDrive architectural consistency across multiple products, teams, and engineering domains.\n\nInfluence platform-wide decisions that impact thousands of developers across the Group.\n\nShape long-term investment priorities and technology direction.\n\nPromote modern engineering practices and cloud-native design principles.\n\nPartner with Product Owners and Engineering Leads to align strategy, architecture, and delivery.\n\nAct as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders across the organisation.\n\nChampion innovation while ensuring solutions remain secure, resilient, supportable, and compliant.\n\nWhy join us?\nWe’re transforming at pace. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to change the way we meet the needs of our 28 million customers. We’re growing, and we’d love you to be part of the journey.\nWhat we’re looking for?\nSignificant experience in Solution Architecture within large-scale enterprise environments.\n\nProven track record delivering complex platform and digital transformation initiatives.\n\nExperience defining architecture strategy across multiple products and technology domains.\n\nDeep expertise in enterprise API ecosystems.\n\nStrong understanding of API operating models, governance, and lifecycle management.\n\nExperience influencing senior business and technology stakeholders.\n\nStrong knowledge of Architecture & Design (e.g. TOGAF, Domain-Driven Design)\n\nStrong knowledge and practical experience of:\nGCP\n\nHarness\n\nApigee\n\nKONG\n\nDeveloper Portal\n\nAPI Ecosystem\n\nSecurity\n\nSRE\n\nWe know that great talent comes from many backgrounds. Whilst this job advert may reference specific years of experience, we recognise that skills are developed in many ways, so if you have relevant, transferable experience, we encourage you to apply.\nThis is a place for you\nOur ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.\nWe also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:\nA generous pension contribution of up to 15%\n\nAn annual performance-related bonus\n\nShare schemes including free shares\n\nBenefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping\n\n30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top\n\nA range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies\n\nReady for a career where you’ll learn and thrive? Apply today and find out more.\nAt Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.\nWe keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.\nWe're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. 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