Senior Solution Architect - Modern Workplace

JOB TITLE: Senior Solution Architect

LOCATIONS: Leeds, Edinburgh

HOURS: Full-time

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

In the role of Lead Technical Architect, you will coordinate the architecture, compose, and MVP delivery of coordinated technical solutions within the LBG organisation! Your main focus will be on implementing new solutions, improving existing solutions, integrating platforms, and providing tailored technology solutions to improve colleague experience and efficiency!

Day to day, you'll be:

• Collaborate with Enterprise Architects to align technology landscape with strategic vision.

• Influence technology roadmaps to support planning, strategy, and resource estimation.

• Engage with strategic partners and vendors to shape product capabilities.

• Lead hands-on evaluations of emerging technologies to identify customer value.

• Provide high-level cost and resource estimates to support prioritisation and budgeting.

• Design large-scale technology changes not aligned with existing feature teams.

• Guide new technology designs through governance processes.

• Review engineering designs for quality and alignment.

• Maintain logical high-level designs for products.

• Develop and uphold engineering standards, guardrails, and best practices.

• Continuously improve Modern Workplace tools and processes through optimisation and automation.

• Promote best practices by participating in guilds and knowledge-sharing forums.

We're on an exciting journey and there couldn't be a better time to join us. The investments we're making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities, and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive.

We understand no-one can be an expert in everything, so if you have a strong technology design background, we'd like to hear from you.

Specifically we're looking for:

• Broad expertise across modern workplace technologies, including infrastructure, collaboration tools, devices, security, data protection, identity, automation, and APIs.

• Strong research and problem-solving skills, able to transform intricate challenges into innovative solutions.

• Credibility and influence, building trusted relationships and inspiring others with a clear vision of what's possible through technology.

• Critical thinking and collaboration, working effectively across teams and driving outcomes through motivation and thoughtful engagement.

• Clear and confident communication, able to articulate design decisions and direction in both written and verbal formats.

• A growth mindset, continuously learning, applying new knowledge, and sharing insights to elevate team capability.

• Designing and testing enterprise solutions using Microsoft Intune, Entra ID, Defender for Endpoint, Office 365, Power Platform, and other modern workplace technologies.

• Scripting and automation using languages like PowerShell, Python or Bash, and tools such as GitHub Actions, Harness, and YAML pipelines.

• Working with APIs and DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines and standardised tooling for integration and delivery.

• Knowledge of current security and cloud infrastructure, including zero trust principles, security focused on identity, UEM technologies, and virtualization on Azure, AWS, or GCP.

About working for us

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.

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

• 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

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