Senior Application Architect (Java with AWS) in Nottingham

LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is more than a diversified global financial markets infrastructure and data business. We are dedicated, open-access partners with a dedication to excellence in delivering the services our customers expect from us. With extensive experience, deep knowledge and worldwide presence across financial markets, we enable businesses and economies around the world to fund innovation, manage risk and create jobs.

Our culture of connecting, creating opportunity and delivering excellence shape how we think, how we do things and how we help our people fulfil their potential. We embrace diversity and actively seek to attract individuals with unique backgrounds and perspectives. We break down barriers and encourage teamwork, enabling innovation and rapid development of solutions that make a difference.

As the Application Architect you will work with the Solution Architect of World-Check One - Risk Engineering and be responsible for the development of critical financial services such as World-Check One, Screening and Due Diligence. You will be a member of the software engineering team who designs software solutions from the ground up, making high-level decisions about each stage of the process and directing a team of engineers to build the final product.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING:

• Build Logical, Physical, Implementation and Process Solution Architecture designs where required.
• Be responsible for cloud infrastructure design and develop detailed architecture design for the application.
• Optimise cost of cloud solutions by identifying waste and automating cloud cost management and autoscaling.
• Support DevOps team with CICD automation.
• Support application development teams in negotiating governance, privacy gates, compliance and risk analysis.
• Ability to lead production issue RCA and resolution.
• Work with Product Owners and Business Analysts providing them with conceptual ideas of how solutions can be designed, at what cost and high-level timescales.
• Own, champion and lead all aspects of key quality of service requirements implementation for availability, recovery, reusability, performance, maintainability, security, capacity, and compatibility.
• Partner with Solution Architects to produce where required: Domain/business logic model design, Interoperability design such as API and Messaging, Data model design.
• Partner with the Infrastructure team to produce physical architecture designs.
• Produce proof of concepts that could be handed over to the Technical Leads / Dev teams for full-scale development.
• Contribute to architecture communities of practice and architecture councils, leads the development of architectural standards by leading and influencing architecture teams.
• Recognised internally and externally as an authority on sophisticated technical matters.
• Interprets technical issues for non-technical audiences and vice versa.
• Develops and delivers formal and informal technical training, presentations, and white papers to both internal and external audiences.

WHAT YOU'LL BRING:

• Experience in architecting highly scalable and efficient distributed systems, using different open source tools.
• A consistent track record of delivering Application and Cloud Solution Architectures.
• Extensive experience selecting and implementing Cloud services, primarily AWS.
• Detailed understanding of Messaging Services for modern application architecture.
• In-depth experience using cloud patterns, multi-tenancy, sharding, priority queue, throttling, sidecar and CAP theorem.
• Understanding of polyglot persistence and hands-on experience with SQL and NoSQL solutions.
• Experience with MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, Elasticsearch and other relational databases.
• In-depth understanding of HTTP and REST API design, management, and consumption.
• Very strong Java skills and experienced with Python, Spring Boot, Node js and JavaScript.
• Understanding of use of AI as a tool and within applications.
• Experience implementing Enterprise Integration Patterns.
• Experience with authentication methods such as SAML, OIDC or Auth2.
• Extensive experience designing and implementing solutions for large systems that are scalable, extensible, performant, secure and highly available.
• Experienced in presenting with senior leadership and proven communication skills to work across technical and business teams.
• Experienced in working with externally sourced engineers and architects.
• Aware of GDPR and ISO standards.

DESIRED SKILLS/EXPERIENCE:

• Understanding of the business domain, including: risk management; customer and third-party risk; the regulatory marketplace.
• Understanding of the financial markets, banking and news.

THE PERSON:

• Possesses robust analytical skills with the ability to synthesise business requirements with technology capabilities to produce a coherent solution architecture that fits with the rest of the ecosystem.
• Has the ability, under pressure, to rapidly solve underlying issues and to lead teams to arrive at and craft viable solutions.
• Ability to manage numerous projects with conflicting priorities in a constantly evolving environment.
• Ability to operate across organisational boundaries, to influence vendors and technology staff and to have an impact on the technology community.
• Strong interpersonal skills supported by expressive oral and written communication.
• Strong negotiating and influencing skills.

Join us and be part of a team that values innovation, quality, and continuous improvement. If you're ready to take your career to the next level and make a significant impact, we'd love to hear from you.