Solution Architect

Job Title: Solution Architect (API Lab & Marketplace Focus)

Location: London / Edinburgh

Job Type: Full-time

About Us

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're helping Britain prosper by transforming the way technology enables our customers, colleagues, and businesses. Through strategic we’re creating scalable, secure, and resilient services that power some of the UK's most important financial journeys. Within Lloyds Banking Group, the API Lab sits at the heart of our API and Digital Services Platform. Our mission is to enable teams across the Group to discover, build, deploy, and reuse high-quality APIs safely and at scale. We provide the products, standards, and services that underpin our API ecosystem, helping engineering teams accelerate delivery whilst meeting enterprise standards for security, resilience, and governance. The API Lab is a key enabler of the Group's move towards a more federated operating model, empowering platforms to innovate independently while maintaining consistency and quality across the organisation. The API Marketplace Team is responsible for one of the API Lab's flagship products: the API Marketplace. Acting as the front door for API discovery and consumption across the Group, the Marketplace enables colleagues to discover, reuse, and subscribe to APIs exposed on Lloyds Banking Group's strategic gateways across both private and public cloud environments. Our vision is to create a world-class digital marketplace that drives API reuse, reduces duplication, accelerates time to market, and empowers teams through self-service capabilities and federated ownership. We are continually evolving the platform through innovations in discoverability, automation, cloud-native architecture, AI-enabled experiences, and improved developer journeys, making it easier than ever for teams to connect, collaborate, and deliver customer value. Joining our team means working at the forefront of API strategy, cloud architecture, platform engineering, and digital transformation—helping shape how thousands of colleagues build and consume services across one of the UK's largest financial institutions.

The Opportunity

We are seeking an accomplished and visionary Solution Architect to join our dynamic API Lab team. In this pivotal role, you will be accountable for all architectural decisions related to our Marketplace platform, guiding its

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