Senior Architect

Overview

LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is 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. Our workplace generates an enriching and rewarding experience for our people and customers alike.

Role Summary

Senior Architect reports to the Director of Architecture within the Risk Intelligence team. Risk Intelligence is responsible for developing critical services that support anti-money laundering efforts in the financial markets. We are looking for a solution architect who has the technical expertise and leadership capability to influence technology strategy within the business.

Main Responsibilities

• Put together Logical, Physical, Implementation and Process architecture designs where required.
• Support application development teams with governance, privacy, compliance, and risk analysis process.
• Provide senior stakeholders with conceptual ideas of how solutions can be designed, at what cost and high-level timescales.
• Own, champion and oversee key quality of service requirements implementation for availability, recovery, reusability, performance, maintainability, security, capacity, and compatibility.
• Partner with Application and Cloud Architects to produce where required: Domain/business logic model design, Interoperability design such as API and Messaging, Data model design, Cloud and on-prem design.
• Pair design with Application Architects and technical leads. Develop their design skills so that they become self-reliant.
• Produce proofs of concepts that could be handed over to the Application Architects for full-scale development.
• Contribute to architecture communities of practice and architecture councils, lead the development of architectural standards by leading and influencing architecture teams.
• Identify where technology and partnerships can cause a ground-breaking shift in business and work with key business stakeholders to bring it to realization.
• Recognized internally and externally as an expert on sophisticated technical matters.
• Interpret technical issues for non-technical audiences and vice versa – provide leadership to establish and articulate the vision, strategy and direction of solution architecture based upon business and technical requirements.
• Develops and delivers formal and informal technical training, presentations, and white papers to both internal and external audiences.

Skills/Experience Required

• A proven track record of delivering Application and Cloud Solution Architectures.
• Extensive experience selecting and implementing Cloud services using AWS, Azure or GCP.
• In-depth experience using cloud patterns such as multitenancy, sharding, priority queue, throttling, sidecar and CAP.
• 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.
• Experienced in communicating with senior leadership and proven communication skills to work across technical and business teams.
• Experienced in working with vendors.
• Aware of GDPR, DORA and ISO standards.

The Person

• Possesses robust analytical skills with the ability to synthesize 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 troubleshoot underlying issues and to lead teams to arrive at viable solutions.
• Ability to manage multiple projects with conflicting priorities in a constantly changing environment.
• Ability to operate across organizational boundaries, to influence vendors and technology staff and to have an impact on the internal and external technology community.
• Strong interpersonal skills supported by expressive oral and written communication.
• Strong negotiating and influencing skills.

Career Stage: Manager

LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.