Director, Real-Time Architecture in Nottingham

We are looking for to lead the next evolution of LSEG’s real‑time market data platform (RTMDS) and associated low‑latency infrastructure. This role is central to driving the technical vision, architectural strategy, and engineering excellence required to operate one of the world’s largest real‑time market data distribution platforms. You will partner with engineering squads, product leaders, and infrastructure teams to deliver scalable, resilient, observability‑rich services that underpin mission‑critical market data distribution globally.

Key Responsibilities

• Leadership & Stakeholder Engagement: Serve as a senior technical leader representing Real‑Time Engineering across LSEG. Partner with key stakeholders, including Product, Engineering, Operations, and Security to align architectural decisions with enterprise strategy. Mentor architects and senior engineers, fostering a strong culture of design excellence, data‑driven decision‑making, and ownership.
• Infrastructure & Capacity Engineering: Drive infrastructure modernisation across compute and network layers, including hardware lifecycle optimisation and vertical/horizontal scaling architecture. Guide adoption of automation, observability, and SRE principles to improve resiliency, fault isolation, and recovery. Work with capacity management teams to ensure adequate platform headroom.
• Low‑Latency Network Architecture: Lead architectural direction for ultra‑low‑latency network connectivity supporting real‑time distribution. Oversee design validation in vendor labs, including NIC tuning, kernel bypass techniques, routing optimisation, telemetry instrumentation, and packet capture strategies. Partner with Network Engineering on deterministic networking, congestion mitigation, timing synchronisation, and microburst‑tolerant path design.
• Exchange Feed Connectivity & Market Access: Define architectural patterns for exchange feed capture, decoding, enrichment, and first‑hop distribution across global equities, derivatives, FX, fixed income, and crypto markets. Ensure ingestion resiliency through multi‑path routing, circuit diversity, co‑lo architectural best practices, and feed‑handler performance tuning. Lead evaluation and adoption of new exchange protocols, depth expansions, multicast upgrades, fast‑path designs, and emerging transport mechanisms.
• Platform Modernisation: Define and lead a significant section of the strategy and design for a major replatform of LSEG Real‑Time's application estate to private cloud. Introduce containerisation for low latency, high performance market data applications. Drive adoption of DevSecOps via platform automation, inclusive of use of industry‑standard automation tooling, as well as generative AI.
• Observability, Performance & Operational Excellence: Collaborate with the Real‑Time Unified Observability team to ensure all components expose actionable metrics, traces, logs, and health checks. Drive system‑wide performance optimisation initiatives including CPU reduction, memory efficiency, latency tuning, and network traffic reduction strategies. Strengthen DevSecOps practices by embedding build‑run accountability into engineering workflows.
• Real‑Time Managed Distribution System Architecture (RTMDS): Own the technology platform roadmap for RTMDS, covering application and infrastructure strategy. Define architecture for next‑generation real‑time APIs and distribution methods, aligned to customer performance and throughput requirements. Lead the evolution of internal and external connectivity models including RTDS migration patterns, LSEG Real‑Time API, integration, and cloud‑aligned delivery.

Required Experience & Skills

• Extensive experience designing and operating large‑scale, low‑latency, high‑throughput distributed systems.
• Deep knowledge of market data platforms (e.g., RTDS, exchange feed‑handlers, exchange protocols and connectivity).
• Strong background in network engineering, real‑time telemetry, and deterministic networking.
• Proven experience leading major transformation initiatives (replatform projects, cloud migrations and modernisation).
• Proficiency with observability platforms and SRE‑oriented engineering practices.
• Ability to influence and collaborate across senior business and technology stakeholders.
• Experience with RWF/RTSDK, compression strategies (e.g., delta, binary packing), and entitlement systems.
• Familiarity with container orchestration and infrastructure‑as‑code frameworks, especially Kubernetes.
• Strong knowledge of capital markets and real time market data.
• Understanding of generative AI.
• STEM degree, or equivalent industry experience.

What You’ll Gain

• Opportunity to shape the future of LSEG’s global real‑time data platform.
• Influence over architecture that supports billions of market data updates per day.
• An engineering leadership role at the centre of one of the industry’s leading global market data platforms.

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. They go to the heart of who we are and guide our decision making and everyday actions. 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. 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. Conforming with applicable law, we can reasonably accommodate applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas. We are committed to sustainability across our global business and we are proud to partner with our customers to help them meet their sustainability objectives. Our charity, the LSEG Foundation provides charitable grants to community groups that help people access economic opportunities and build a secure future with financial independence. Colleagues can get involved through fundraising and volunteering. LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.