Senior Solutions Architect

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Job Description

JOB TITLE: Senior Solutions Architect (Finance Platform)

SALARY: £86,964 - £102,310

LOCATION(S): Bristol Harbourside

HOURS: Full Time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week currently, or 40% of our time, at our Bristol Office.

About this Opportunity

This role sits within our Finance Platform Engineering team and will focus on work in our Planning & Reporting Lab. This role will be instrumental in bridging the gap between senior finance stakeholders and technology, with a focus on defining future, current, and interim state business and technical processes. The ideal candidate will possess a deep understanding of finance business processes related to Planning, Management Reporting, and Financial Consolidation, and have the expertise to align appropriate tools and technologies to enhance these processes effectively. Additionally, the candidate will be responsible for translating strategic directives laid out by senior leadership into actionable plans for data, master data, and reporting initiatives. You will also help to maximise the functionality of our applications and tooling, alongside integration with other software components across a transformed Finance technology landscape. Our development and change lifecycle is focused on Oracle Cloud SaaS technologies and integration with other cloud and on-premise hosted technologies.

About us…

Like the modern Britain we serve, we’re evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We’re growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too…

What you’ll do…

• Collaborate with Product Owners, Platform Leads, Enterprise Architects & Engineers to create the Architectural runway for our Platform teams. Once baselined, our Solution Architects continuously invest in maintaining the Architecture runway underpinning our Platform teams.

• Partner with Enterprise Architecture & service providers to elaborate on solutions, their interfaces and validating technology assumptions, evaluating implementation alternatives and software lifecycle risks, assumptions, issues & dependencies.

• Provide analysis of options and deliver end-to-end solution designs using relevant architectural building blocks as well as producing designs for features that enable frequent incremental customer value delivery.

• Promote adaptive design practises to drive collaboration across Platform teams centring on a common vision with continuous feedback.

• Own the technical design risks or issues and drive resolution through architectural or agile practises.

• Participate in Agile ceremonies, elicit requirements, shape & validate designs or prototypes that deliver customer outcomes that align to our target architecture.

• Leverage industry best practise, frameworks, standards & policies in creating opportunities & value for our customers.

• Set guiding principles and solution success criteria for platform capability or feature development across our Platforms.

• Write and edit materials for a variety of target populations, tailoring the tone and content to match the needs and expectations of each audience.

• As a Senior Solution Architect, you will also hold overall responsibility for directing a diverse workforce to achieve the business strategy, Inspiring people, achieving their full commitment to do the extraordinary.

What you’ll need…

• Experience in exploiting functionality in Oracle Cloud products and integration with other software.

• Solid understanding of Cloud hosting and awareness of integration/ connectivity

• Good knowledge and development experience with Out-of-Box modules like financials, workforce and Strategic modules of Oracle cloud planning would be advantageous

• Deep understanding of finance business processes and their alignment with technology solutions, including Oracle ERPM, Oracle Hyperion, FDI, Oracle Analytics Cloud or similar platforms/products

• Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate complex business requirements into actionable technology solutions.

• Experience working in a regulated environment with a thorough understanding of compliance and risk management considerations.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to interface effectively with senior executives, business users, and technical teams.

• Experience in finance transformation, with a focus on Planning, Reporting, and Consolidation processes within the banking or financial services industry would be advantageous.

Oh, and if you have any prior experience working within a finance function or with Oracle OFSAA, Fusion systems that would be handy, but please apply if you don’t!

About working for us…

Our focus is to ensure we are 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 is why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We are disability confident. So, if you would like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes…

•            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

Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow, and thrive? Apply today and find out more.

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.

We 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. 

We'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. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.