Director, Cloud Architecture (Network) | London, UK

London Stock Exchange Group; London; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global financial markets infrastructure provider is seeking a Head of Cloud Architecture to lead their public cloud and developer architecture initiatives. This role involves overseeing a global team, driving cloud adoption, and ensuring strategic alignment with business needs. The ideal candidate will possess deep technical expertise and experience in large enterprise cloud environments, fostering innovation and operational excellence.

Benefits

Healthcare

Retirement planning

Paid volunteering days

Wellbeing initiatives

Qualifications

• Deep technical expertise in infrastructure technologies.
• Proven experience in senior technology roles within public cloud environments.
• Strong leadership and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Drive adoption and migration of applications to the public cloud.
• Own the technical integrity and strategic roadmap of Cloud Networking.
• Act as a cloud evangelist and engage with stakeholders.

Skills

Technical expertise in infrastructure technologies

SDLC

CI/CD

Application security

Agile

DevSecOps

Cloud best practices

Leadership

Negotiation

Team-building

Tools

Kubernetes

Istio

Serverless

Job description

Role Summary

Reporting into the Cloud and Productivity Engineering Organisation, this role will own and deliver the London Stock Exchange Group's public cloud and developer architecture. Innovation is central to this program, and the focus areas will evolve to meet business needs, security requirements, and digital strategies.

The Head of Cloud Architecture will provide leadership and focus on strategy, design, and evolution of LSEG's strategic public and private cloud platform.

This role will own, lead, and develop a global dispersed team responsible for strategy and design across the cloud platform and development toolchain. A successful candidate will have experience in defining and curating cloud and developer strategies, standards, processes, methodologies, and architectures to enable business innovation, simplify technology landscapes, and enhance operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive the adoption and migration of applications to the public cloud, aiming to transition the majority of the LSEG/Refinitiv estate to cloud.
• Own the technical and architectural integrity and strategic roadmap of Cloud Networking, ensuring successful delivery of business and technical outcomes.
• Retire or decommission data centers worldwide in favor of cloud-hosted environments.
• Collaborate with the Group CISO and IT security teams to enhance security controls.
• Leverage emerging technologies in cloud and development to simplify the technology landscape, improve customer experience, and reduce costs.
• Work with chapters to define cloud and developer service strategies, including standards, blueprints, processes, and patterns.
• Act as a cloud evangelist, helping leaders understand the benefits and challenges of cloud adoption and assisting teams in migration.
• Build relationships across the engineering community to establish consistent architecture across digital platforms aligned with future technology needs.
• Engage with cloud platform stakeholders and communicate with senior leadership, including C-level executives.
• Partially perform the role of Agile 'Product Owner' for the cloud platform.
• Gather and utilize feedback and learning early and often.

Candidate Profile / Key Skills

• Deep technical expertise in infrastructure technologies.
• Experience with SDLC, CI/CD, application security, QA, platforms like Istio, Serverless, Kubernetes, and processes like Agile, Lean, Product Development.
• Knowledge of DevSecOps, high-performance computing, event-driven architectures, big data, machine learning, and multiple programming languages (C, C++, C#, Java, Rust, Go, Python).
• Experience in enterprise and solution architecture, cloud and on-premise networking.
• Proven experience in senior technology roles within large enterprise public cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Ability to drive technological and cultural change, promoting automation and platform as a foundation for innovation.
• Strong leadership, communication, negotiation, and team-building skills, with experience managing global teams.
• Understanding of PaaS, SaaS, IaaS, and public cloud best practices.
• Awareness of latest public cloud developments and industry benchmarks.
• Experience working in agile and DevOps cultures, with knowledge of operating systems, networks, RDBMS, infrastructure-as-code, and CI/CD pipelines.

LSEG is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider committed to driving financial stability, empowering economies, and enabling sustainable growth.

Our values of Integrity, Partnership, Excellence, and Change underpin our culture and guide our decisions and actions.

Joining us means being part of a diverse, collaborative, and innovative organization of 25,000 people across 65 countries, committed to sustainability and supporting the green economy and inclusive growth.

We offer tailored benefits including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days, and wellbeing initiatives.

We are an equal opportunities employer, committed to non-discrimination and reasonable accommodations for all applicants and employees.

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