Senior Infrastructure Architect in Bristol

Salary Range: £72,702 - £80,780

Flexible Working Options: Flexibility in when hours are worked, Hybrid Working, Job Share. We support flexible working.

Location: Bristol, Edinburgh, Manchester, Leeds

Hours: Full time

Working Pattern: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week currently at one of the above offices.

What you’ll do:

• Align to a business platform responsible for a banking product or service, where we influence their strategy and direction.
• Own the hybrid cloud design and governance, driving resolution through iteration focusing on resilience, simplicity and sustainability.
• Turn requirements and specifications into hybrid cloud designs; shape key design decisions and iterate ideas as you go.
• Provide consultancy and cost estimates, ensuring your business platform can budget accordingly and make informed strategic decisions.
• Use your experience of leading Suppliers, SMEs and Supply Lines to write clear work packages that are understood and delivered on time.
• Support the wide function to enable the automation of key infrastructure blueprints and patterns.
• Take a lead in all aspects of infrastructure throughout the delivery lifecycle, including:
• Working with Lead Solution Architects and Senior Solution Architects to design and deliver hybrid cloud designs.
• Working with labs to formulate plans and understand costs for any technical delivery.
• Engaging suppliers and internal delivery teams to deliver in an agile manner.
• Coordinating build activities with internal or 3rd party service providers.
• Collaborating with service owners to ensure systems are properly tested and supported following go-live.

What you’ll need:

• Experience in the design/architecture of Hybrid Cloud solutions in an enterprise environment, e.g. IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, Middleware, Storage, Network and Databases.
• Experience of Public & Private Cloud Platforms, concepts and technologies including Azure, GCP and AWS.
• Integration Architecture across private and public cloud platforms.
• Skilled at producing quality concise design documentation.
• Hands-on experience of end-to-end project delivery, working with Agile delivery models including modern software development and deployment practices.
• Understanding of building applications through containerised microservices-based architectures.
• Ability to provide technical leadership in a complex multi-vendor environment.
• Ability to communicate and collaborate complex technical concepts clearly to peers and leadership level colleagues.

Benefits:

• 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

Additional Information:

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.

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