Cloud-Native Risk Platform 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

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,