Application Architect

London Stock Exchange Group; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

London Stock Exchange Group is seeking an Application Architect for Risk Intelligence Content Curation & Distribution to shape the architecture of next‑generation risk content platforms. You will translate business needs into scalable designs, collaborating with product owners, solution architects, and engineering teams to deliver secure, observable, and cost-efficient cloud-native services.

This role focuses on API-first design, data modelling, and guiding teams through best practices in CI/CD,

Qualifications

• Experience as an application architect or senior engineering role within distributed systems.
• Strong understanding of application design, API design, and data modelling.
• Solid experience with Java and/or Python in production environments.
• Practical experience designing and operating AWS-based applications in a cloud-native environment.
• Working knowledge of containerised architectures, messaging patterns, and distributed data stores.
• Understanding of Infrastructure as Code concepts and modern CI/CD practices.
• Sound understanding of security, authentication, and authorisation concepts.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to influence technical decisions and collaborate effectively across teams and cultures.
• Experience in designing solutions with good observability practices embedded.
• Understanding of performance, scalability, and resilience engineering.
• Deeper exposure to event-driven architectures and asynchronous messaging at scale.
• Experience optimising performance, resilience, and cost in production cloud environments.
• Familiarity with modern front-end architectures and integration patterns.
• Experience working in financial services, risk, compliance, or other regulated environments is desirable but not essential.

Responsibilities

• Shaping application architectures aligned with enterprise and solution-level standards.
• Translating requirements into clear architectural designs promoting reuse and good design practices.
• Applying security standards and engineering best practices across components.
• Reviewing significant technical design decisions within the application scope with engineering teams.
• Ensuring solutions meet performance, resilience, and maintainability attributes.
• Acting as a technical point of reference for development teams.
• Collaborating with stakeholders to evaluate design options and trade-offs.
• Influencing technical decisions through expertise and clear communication.
• Guiding cloud-native AWS-hosted applications with resilience, security, and operability in mind.
• Ensuring observability, supportability, and deployment are addressed early in design.
• Contributing to architectural roadmaps and ongoing platform evolution.

Skills

Architecture design

API design

Data modelling

Java

Python

AWS

Cloud-native

CI/CD

Security concepts

Observability

Event-driven

Leadership

Communication

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Application Architect – Risk Intelligence Content Curation & Distribution

Come join the Risk Intelligence Content Curation and Distribution team as an Application Architect, and help drive application design, as we support our World-Check customers in protecting against sanctions evasion, money laundering, human trafficking, terrorisim and more!

Role Summary

The Application Architect plays a key technical role within the Risk Intelligence Engineering organisation. As we build the next set of applications and services this role contributes to their the architecture and technical direction on the Risk Content Curation and Distribution Platform This role focuses on application‑level architecture, design quality, and technical guidance, working closely with Solution Architects, Product Owners, and engineering teams. You will help translate business and non‑functional requirements into robust, scalable designs while ensuring alignment with architectural standards and long‑term platform strategy. The environment is cloud‑native and distributed, supporting varied workloads with strong security, reliability, and governance requirements.

What You’ll Be Doing

• You’ll contribute to and shape application architectures aligned with enterprise and solution‑level standards.
• Translating requirements into clear, pragmatic architectural designs - promoting consistency, reuse, and good design practices across application components.
• Applying and promoting architectural principles, security standards, and engineering best practices is a key part of the role.
• You will also review significant technical design decisions within the application scope, working collaboratively with engineering and solution architecture teams.
• Ensuring solutions meet required quality attributes including performance, resilience, scalability, and maintainability.
• You will act as a recognised technical point of reference for development teams.
• Collaborating with a range of stakeholders to evaluate design options and trade‑offs.
• You will influence technical decisions through expertise and clear communication rather than formal authority.
• Guide the design of cloud‑native, AWS‑hosted applications, considering resilience, security, operability, and cost.
• Ensure operational concerns such as observability, supportability, and deployment are considered early in design.
• You’ll promote continuous improvements, by contributing to architectural roadmaps and the ongoing evolution of the platform; Validating architectural approaches where appropriate through lightweight proofs of concept and
• Supporting continuous improvement in architectural practices, patterns, and technical standards.

What You’ll Bring

• Experience as an application architect or senior engineering role within distributed systems.
• Strong understanding of application design, API design, and data modelling.
• Solid experience with Java and/or Python in production environments.
• Practical experience designing and operating AWS‑based applications in a cloud‑native environment.
• Working knowledge of containerised architectures, messaging patterns, and distributed data stores.
• Understanding of Infrastructure as Code concepts and modern CI/CD practices.
• Sound understanding of security, authentication, and authorisation concepts.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts clearly to both technical and non‑technical audiences.
• Ability to influence technical decisions and collaborate effectively across teams and cultures.
• Experience in designing solutions with good observability practices embedded.
• Understanding of performance, scalability, and resilience engineering.
• Deeper exposure to event‑driven architectures and asynchronous messaging at scale.
• Experience optimising performance, resilience, and cost in production cloud environments.
• Familiarity with modern front‑end architectures and integration patterns.
• Experience working in financial services, risk, compliance, or other regulated environments is desirable but not essential.

The Person

A pragmatic and technically strong architectural thinker who collaborates effectively with both technical and business stakeholders. Comfortable navigating complex, fast‑moving environments, they influence through expertise rather than authority. You are curious, proactive, and focused on delivering high‑quality, sustainable systems.

Career Stage

Manager

LSEG Information

Join us and be part of a team that values innovation, quality, and continuous improvement. If you're ready to take your career to the next level and make a significant impact, we'd love to hear from you. 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 purpose is the foundation on which our culture is built. 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.

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