Senior Architect

Overview

ABOUT US: 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.

It’s how we’ve contributed to supporting the financial stability and growth of communities and economies globally for more than 300 years. Through a comprehensive suite of trusted financial market infrastructure services – and our open-access model – we provide the flexibility, stability and trust that enable our customers to pursue their ambitions with confidence and clarity. LSEG is headquartered in the United Kingdom, with significant operations in 70 countries across EMEA, North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific.

We employ 25,000 people globally, more than half located in Asia Pacific. LSEG’s ticker symbol is LSEG.

OUR PEOPLE: People are at the heart of what we do and drive the success of our business. 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.

Our workplace generates an enriching and rewarding experience for our people and customers alike. Our vision is to build an inclusive culture in which everyone feels encouraged to fulfil their potential.

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.

• 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.

• 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…