Lead Data Architect - News Engineering

LSEG; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Job summary

LSEG is seeking a Lead News Data Architect to define and evolve the data architecture for its real-time News platform, delivering richly structured and searchable data to customers worldwide in sub-second time.

You will be a hands-on architect, leading through influence and shaping platform-wide decisions around data modeling, metadata standards, and search technologies, with emphasis on reliability, performance, and developer experience.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience as a Data Architect or Technical Architect.
• Proven skills in data modeling and contract definition.
• Experience designing low-latency, high-throughput architectures.
• Familiarity with streaming, event-driven and cloud-native platforms.
• Ability to lead by influence and communicate ideas clearly.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end data architecture decisions for real-time news ingestion and distribution.
• Develop data standards, schemas, and contracts for content and metadata.
• Collaborate with engineering to improve signal discoverability and observability.

Skills

Data architecture

Contract definition

Low-latency systems

Streaming architectures

Cloud-native platforms

Communication skills

Tools

Elasticsearch

Job description

Lead News Architect — News Engineering @ LSEG

Help us shape the future of real‑time news data and join a team powering the heartbeat of global information. 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.

This role is ideal for hands‑on architects who want to be individual contributors and technical leaders. 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 strategy.

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. You will 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.

What We’re Looking For

• Strong experience as a Data Architect or Technical Architect working with large‑scale, real‑time data systems.
• Deep expertise in data modeling and contract definition.
• Experience designing architectures for low‑latency, high‑throughput systems.
• Experience with streaming and event‑driven architectures.
• Familiarity with cloud‑native data platforms and distributed systems.
• Ability to work independently, lead through influence, and communicate ideas clearly.

Bonus Points

• 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.

Why Join Us?

• Impact: Your work defines how critical news data is structured, discovered, and delivered to customers.
• Growth: Expand your influence across data architecture, platform strategy, and real‑time analytics.
• Culture: We value clarity over complexity, ownership over hand‑offs, and pragmatic architecture that delivers real results.
• Flexibility: Hybrid work options and a balanced work‑life environment.

Career Stage

Manager

Equal Opportunity

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. This means that we do not discriminate on the basis of anyone’s race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. Conforming with applicable law, we can reasonably accommodate applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.