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About the Role

As the Application Architect, you will 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, making high-level decisions and directing engineers to build the final product. You will need to demonstrate significant experience as a software engineer, with the technical expertise and leadership to influence technology strategy and partner with the business to bring value through innovation.

Responsibilities

Build Logical, Physical, Implementation and Process Solution Architecture designs.
Be responsible for cloud infrastructure design and develop detailed architecture design for the application.
Optimize 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.
Lead production issue RCA and resolution.
Work with Product Owners and Business Analysts providing conceptual ideas for solutions, costs, and 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 domain/business logic model design, interoperability design (API and Messaging), and data model design.
Partner with the Infrastructure team to produce physical architecture designs.
Pair design with other Application Architects and Technical leads, developing their design skills.
Produce proof of concepts for handover to Technical Leads / Dev teams.
Contribute to architecture communities of practice and architecture councils, leading the development of architectural standards.
Identify where technology and partnerships can cause a ground-breaking shift in business and work with key business partners to bring it to realization.
Act as an authority on sophisticated technical matters.
Interpret technical issues for non-technical audiences and vice versa.
Establish and articulate the vision, strategy and direction of solution architecture based upon business and technical requirements.
Develop and deliver technical training, presentations, and white papers.

Requirements

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.
Awareness of GDPR and ISO standards.
Possesses robust analytical skills with the ability to synthesize business requirements with technology capabilities to produce a coherent solution architecture.
Ability, under pressure, to rapidly solve underlying issues and 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.

Skills

Cloud Native Architecture
DevOps
CICD Automation
API Design
Messaging
Java
Python
Spring Boot
Node.js
JavaScript
AI
Enterprise Integration Patterns
SAML
OIDC
OAuth2
GDPR
ISO Standards
Risk Management
Financial Markets
Banking
News Analysis

Location

United Kingdom

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Manager

Benefits

Healthcare
Retirement planning
Paid volunteering days
Wellbeing initiatives

About the Company

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.
We enable businesses and economies around the world to fund innovation, manage risk and create jobs.
We have contributed to supporting the financial stability and growth of communities and economies globally for more than 300 years.
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.
We are a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 65 countries.
We are committed to sustainability across our global business.
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.

Equal Opportunity

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer.
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.