Solution Architect - London Stock Exchange Group

Risk Intelligence is responsible for developing critical services that support anti-money laundering efforts in the financial markets. We are seeking an Enterprise Solution Architect with technical expertise, attention to detail, and strong leadership skills to influence Risk Intelligence and LSEG technology strategy, ensuring compliance and data accuracy throughout the SDLC.

Key responsibilities:

• Support application development teams and solution architects in navigating governance, privacy, compliance, and risk analysis.
• Review LSEG standards, provide feedback to the standards committee, and ensure alignment.
• Collaborate with the Director of Architecture and the Risk Intelligence leadership team to maintain and develop an architecture roadmap that aligns with business objectives.
• Maintain the technology risk register for the service portfolio.
• Collaborate with Cyber, Risk, and Compliance teams to ensure alignment with cyber security and regulations such as DORA.
• Support Directors of Engineering with annual business planning.
• Work proactively with Senior Architects to co-create designs for shared services within Risk Intelligence.
• Support M&A activities.
• Own service total cost of ownership models and projections.
• Collaborate with the LSEG strategy department to provide Risk Intelligence data on tool usage, cloud adoption, business capability taxonomy, etc.
• Ensure that service data is up-to-date and compliant in various tools such as LeanIX.
• Lead and assist in the evaluation and selection of new technologies, tools, and platforms.
• Conduct regular architecture reviews and provide recommendations for improvements.
• Stay ahead of new technologies and industry trends.
• Translate technical issues for non-technical audiences and vice versa.

Essential Skills/Experience:

• A track record of delivering Application and Cloud Solution Architectures.
• Experienced in communicating with senior leadership and proven communication skills to work across technical and business teams.
• Extensive experience selecting and implementing Cloud services using AWS, Azure or GCP.
• Good experience using cloud patterns such as multi-tenancy, sharding priority queue, throttling, sidecar and CAP theorem.
• Understanding of polyglot persistence and hands-on experience with SQL and NoSQL solutions such as Document, Column Family and Key-Value.
• Experience implementing Enterprise Integration Patterns.
• Experience with authentication methods such as SAML, OIDC or OAuth2.
• Extensive experience designing and implementing solutions for large systems that are scalable, extensible, performant, secure and highly available.
• Awareness of GDPR, DORA and ISO standards.

About you:

• Possesses robust analytical skills with the ability to synthesize business requirements with technology capabilities to produce a coherent solution architecture that fits within the ecosystem.
• Ability to handle multiple projects with conflicting priorities.
• Strong negotiating and influencing skills.

LSEG is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider. Our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth. Our values of Integrity, Partnership, Excellence and Change underpin our purpose and set the standard for everything we do, every day. Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 65 countries. However, we will value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce. You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas and are committed to sustainability across our global business. You will experience the critical role we have in helping to re-engineer the financial ecosystem to support and drive sustainable economic growth. Together, we are aiming to achieve this growth by accelerating the just transition to net zero, enabling growth of the green economy and creating inclusive economic opportunity.

LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives. We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. This means that we do not discriminate on the basis of anyone's race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law.