Digital Technical Architect - Remote Working in London

Company DescriptionFastmarkets is an industry-leading price-reporting agency (PRA) and information provider for global commodities, providing price data, news, analytics and events for the agriculture, forest products, metals and mining and new-generation energy markets.Fastmarkets' data is critical for customers seeking to understand and predict dynamic, sometimes opaque markets, enabling trading and risk management. Job DescriptionThe RoleThis is a newly created role, established to give Product Engineering dedicated architectural leadership and to build a genuine technical specialist career pathway alongside Fastmarkets' existing management track.You will own solution architecture and technical strategy for Product Engineering - providing technical direction across its squads, setting design standards, and ensuring solutions are built to be scalable, resilient, and secure. This includes architectural ownership of Product Engineering's major programmes and projects, where you may be embedded in delivery on a part-time or full-time basis depending on the scale, complexity, and risk of the work. Alongside this, you will hold shared accountability - in partnership with the Head of AI Enablement, Head of Data Platform, and Cloud Architect - for driving AI-enabled product development lifecycle (PDLC) practice across Product Engineering, Data & AI, and Cloud Engineering, fostering a cross-organisation community of best practice while ensuring Product Engineering's own domain-specific AI use cases are addressed.You will work closely with engineering, data, cloud, and product teams to standardise, govern, and mature how Fastmarkets designs and delivers software - and you will help define what a technical specialist career path looks like at Fastmarkets, acting as a role model for that path yourself.Principal AccountabilitiesSolution Architecture & Technical StrategyOwn solution architecture and technical strategy for Product Engineering across its squadsProvide technical direction on major projects, ensuring solutions are scalable, flexible, resilient, and secureProvide hands-on architectural leadership to major product programmes - embedding into a delivery team on a part-time or full-time basis where the scale, complexity, or risk of the work requires itWork alongside programme managers and product owners to keep architectural decisions, delivery sequencing, and technical dependencies alignedAct as the technical escalation point for cross-squad architectural decisionsCross-Organisation Standardisation & GovernanceDrive standardisation, governance, and specialisation practice across Product Engineering, Data & AI, and Cloud Engineering - working directly with the relevant groups in each organisationPartner with Cloud Engineering's architecture capability and Data & AI's platform architecture on cross-org technical decisionsProvide technical oversight of third-party delivery partners, vendors, and systems integrators - reviewing their designs and implementation against Fastmarkets' architecture standards and holding them to those standardsAI-Enabled PDLCCo-own, with the Head of AI Enablement, Head of Data Platform, and Cloud Architect, the community of best practice for AI-enabled PDLC across the three organisationsEnsure Product Engineering's domain-specific AI use cases are identified, prioritised, and addressed as part of the shared PDLC modelChampion the use of AI-assisted development tools and practice across Product EngineeringSpecialist Career PathwayOwn and define the specialist career pathway this role is designed to anchorEstablish the levels and capabilities that distinguish deep technical specialists, giving engineers a credible alternative to the people-management trackKEY INTERFACESDirector of Engineering, Product EngineeringHead of AI EnablementHead of Data PlatformCloud Architect / Cloud EngineeringProduct Engineering squads and leadsProduct counterparts within Product EngineeringProduct owners and programme / delivery managersThird-party delivery partners, vendors, and systems integratorsEnterprise ArchitectQualificationsWe recruit talented, dynamic people with diverse backgrounds and experiences, all united by a belief in our mission to provide the world’s leading and most trusted price reporting, events, and intelligence service for the markets we serve. KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLSWe're looking for a technical architect who combines strong direction-setting and cross-team leadership with genuine technical credibility, across both traditional solution architecture and AI-enabled delivery. This role is weighted toward architecture, standards, and driving alignment across teams rather than full-time hands-on building - but you should have enough hands-on experience to set credible standards, review architecture critically, and know the difference between what sounds good in a slide and what actually survives production.Key Experience / Qualifications12+ years in software engineering, including 5+ years operating at architecture or senior technical leadership levelProven experience as a solution architect or technical architect, setting technical direction and design standards across multiple teams or squadsStrong software architecture fundamentals: distributed systems, microservices, API design, service-oriented architecture, and cloud-native patterns (Fastmarkets runs primarily on Microsoft Azure)Experience defining or contributing to technical standards, governance, and engineering best practice across multiple teams - able to drive alignment without direct authority over every team involvedExperience acting as architect on large, multi-team product programmes - working with programme managers and product owners, and holding third-party suppliers or systems integrators to defined architecture standardsTrack record of taking AI/GenAI capabilities from prototype through to reliable, monitored production systemsSolid understanding of agentic or multi-agent AI system design (orchestration patterns, tool use, agent coordination) and the operational realities of running them in productionWorking knowledge of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) - ingestion, chunking, embeddings, vector search, and production retrieval pipelinesTrack record of leading or significantly influencing an AI-enabled product development lifecycle (PDLC) - embedding AI into how software gets built, not just what gets builtComfortable operating at both ends of the spectrum: credible in architecture conversations with senior technical and business stakeholders, and able to engage in technical detail when neededStrong communicator, able to bring multiple engineering teams and disciplines (Product Engineering, Data & AI, Cloud Engineering) toward shared technical directionPersonal AttributesDeeply technical, with genuine hands-on credibility - leads through technical judgement, not just processStrategic thinker who can translate broad technical direction into concrete, achievable standards and practiceHighly collaborative; able to drive alignment across teams without formal authority over themComfortable operating with ambiguity - this is a newly created role and part of the job is helping to shape itResults-driven, with a focus on long-term technical health and career pathway impact, not just individual deliveryWHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE (First 6 Months)Built genuine working relationships and credibility across Product Engineering, Data & AI, and Cloud Engineering, as well as with Product counterparts - recognised as a trusted technical voice by peers and teams across all of these groups, not just your ownPartnered with the Head of AI Enablement, Head of Data Platform, and Cloud Architect to establish the shared community of best practice for AI-enabled PDLC, with the model tested against real work in at least one domain-specific use caseStarted to shape - even if not yet finalised - the standards and governance approach for solution architecture across the three organisationsIf you're excited about the role but your experience, skills or qualifications don't perfectly align, we encourage you to apply anyway.We are collaborative, able to work across teams and capitalise on the diversity of intellect, perspectives, and experiences.Should your application advance and you require accommodations for the interview process, please inform us so we can make the necessary arrangements.Through Fastmarkets Rewards, you'll have access to a range of core benefits and a flexible allowance, giving you the freedom to tailor your package to suit your lifestyle, wellbeing and financial priorities.