About LSEG
LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is a diversified global financial markets infrastructure and data business. 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. LSEG is headquartered in the United Kingdom, with significant operations in 70 countries across EMEA, North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific.
Role Summary
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 a software engineering team that 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.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- Through understanding of cloud native architecture and principles.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- Interpret technical issues for non-technical audiences and provide leadership to establish and articulate the vision, strategy and direction of solution architecture.
- Develop and deliver formal and informal technical training, presentations, and white papers.
LSEG offers a culture of connecting, creating opportunity and delivering excellence. We encourage and enable a wealth of avenues and interesting opportunities for everyone to broaden and deepen their skills and expertise. LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.
Core Skills and Experience
- 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 (MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, Elasticsearch).
- 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.
- Awareness of GDPR and ISO standards.
Desired Skills
- Understanding of the business domain, including: risk management; customer and third-party risk; the regulatory marketplace.
- Understanding of the financial markets, banking and news.
Personal Attributes
- Robust analytical skills with the ability to synthesise business requirements with technology capabilities.
- Ability to manage numerous projects with conflicting priorities in a constantly evolving environment.
- Ability to operate across organisational boundaries and influence stakeholders.
- Strong interpersonal, negotiating and influencing skills.
