Lead Data Architect (News Engineering)

London Stock Exchange; Greater London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

London Stock Exchange is seeking a Lead News Data Architect to define and evolve the data architecture powering our real-time News platform, delivering richly structured and searchable news to customers worldwide in sub-second time.

You will lead end-to-end data architecture decisions for real-time news ingestion, enrichment, storage, indexing, and distribution, while developing data standards and contracts to ensure quality and consistency across the platform.

Qualifications

• Strong background in data architecture for real-time news platforms.
• Experience designing schemas, contracts and canonical data models.
• Familiarity with data governance, lineage, and quality frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve data architecture for real-time news ingestion, enrichment, storage, indexing and distribution.
• Develop data standards, schemas, and contracts for news content, metadata and derived signals.
• Partner with engineering to improve signal discoverability through normalizing metadata and industry standards.
• Ensure observability and lineage while delivering a simple experience for working with News from LSEG.
• Lead through influence and communicate technical direction to senior product and engineering leaders.

Skills

Data modeling

Streaming architectures

Low-latency systems

Distributed systems

Cloud-native platforms

Elasticsearch

Tools

NewsML-G2

Job description

• LSEG’s News Engineering group is looking for a Lead News Data Architect to define and evolve the data architecture that powers our real-time News platform, delivering richly structured and searchable news to customers worldwide in sub-second time
• You’ll work at the intersection of data modeling, metadata standards, and search technologies, with the opportunity to influence platform-wide decisions and long-term strateg
• As a news architect in the News team at LSEG, you will lead end-to-end data architecture decisions for real-time news ingestion, enrichment, storage, indexing, and distribution
• Develop data standards, schemas, and contracts for news content, metadata, and derived signals to ensure consistency and quality across the platform. Partner closely with engineering teams improving signal discoverability through normalizing metadata and implementing industry standards
• Ensure data architectures support observability and lineage while providing customers with a simple, straight-forward experience for working with News from LSEG. We encourage pragmatic experimentation with new tools, libraries, and approaches when they improve reliability, performance, or developer experience

• This role is ideal for hands-on architects who want to be individual contributors and technical leaders
• Experience with streaming and event-driven architectures
• Experience designing architectures for low-latency, high-throughput systems
• Ability to work independently, lead through influence, and communicate ideas clearly
• Deep expertise in data modeling and contract definition
• Familiarity with cloud-native data platforms and distributed systems
• Strong experience as a Data Architect or Technical Architect working with large-scale, real-time data systems
• Knowledge of news data standards such as NewsML-G2 or similar structured content formats
• Experience defining or implementing canonical data models
• Familiarity with data governance, lineage, or data quality frameworks
• Understanding search technologies (e.g., Elasticsearch or similar) and how data modeling impacts query performance
• Experience working closely with senior product and engineering leaders