Solution Architect
Lloyds Banking Group10 hours ago
Hyderābād, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end solution architecture for real-time decisioning across decisioning ecosystems, data access layers, and web, app, colleague, and outbound channels.
- Architect event-driven data flows across GCP, Kafka, streaming and batch systems, and digital signal sources for sub-second decision context and feedback loops.
- Define non-functional requirements and service-level objectives for latency, availability, resilience, change failure rate, and cost per decision.
- Publish and govern reference architectures, architecture decision records, integration patterns, and guardrails covering APIs, events, identity, consent, and measurement.
- Embed threat modeling, data minimization, consent, auditability, explainability, and fairness into architecture and model-usage decisions.
- Partner with engineering, data science and ML, platform engineering, InfoSec, product, vendors, and delivery teams to implement pragmatic solutions.
- Contribute to the PEC architecture roadmap and decisions about vendor capabilities versus in-house development.
Requirements
- 15+ years of experience in solution architecture or related technical architecture work.
- Deep experience with real-time decisioning, personalization, or marketing technology at scale in a regulated environment.
- Experience with event-driven architecture, Kafka, streaming and batch patterns, API design, identity resolution, and experimentation or measurement pipelines.
- Experience designing distributed systems, including fault tolerance, scaling and partitioning, consistency trade-offs, retries, idempotency, back-pressure, high availability, and multi-zone or multi-region patterns.
- Knowledge of public cloud providers including GCP, AWS, or Azure, with experience in networking, VPC, IAM, security controls, service connectivity, managed data and streaming services, observability, and FinOps.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code, observability, reliability engineering, performance engineering, cost governance, and software delivery foundations.
- Knowledge of C4 modeling, ADRs, threat modeling, zero-trust and data-security-by-design practices, and architecture governance communication.
- Hands-on Pega CDH or equivalent real-time decisioning platform experience is preferred.
- Experience with GCP services including BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Dataflow, Apache Beam, Cloud Run, GKE, Cloud Functions, IAM, VPC, Private Service Connect, Cloud Logging, Cloud Monitoring, Secret Manager, and Org Policies is preferred.
- Experience with Tealium, Celebrus, Adobe, AEP, AJO, AEM, or Phoenix and familiarity with ML/MLOps, model monitoring, explainability, bias and fairness controls, learning systems, and experimentation at scale is preferred.
- Experience working in large-scale, multi-brand environments involving contact policies, suppression, pressure rules, and governance is preferred.
Benefits
- Permanent, full-time role based in Hyderabad with hybrid working and collaboration across UK and global technology centers.
- Pension contribution of up to 15%.
- Annual bonus award subject to Group performance.
- Share schemes including free shares.
- Lifestyle benefits such as discounted shopping.
- 30 days of holiday plus bank holidays.
- Wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies.
- Culture emphasizing inclusion, psychological safety, continuous learning, and fortnightly demos.
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About Lloyds Banking Group
Lloyds Banking Group is a UK-focused retail, commercial, and insurance banking group that provides current accounts, savings, mortgages, loans, credit cards, business banking, wealth, and pensions (via Scottish Widows). It earns revenue from interest margins and fees across digital and branch channels. Formed in 2009 and headquartered in London, it operates well-known brands including Lloyds Bank, Halifax, Bank of Scotland, and Scottish Widows, and is listed on the London Stock Exchange.