Solutions Architect - London Stock Exchange Group

ZipRecruiter; City Of London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global financial markets provider is seeking a Senior Solutions Architect to design solutions for transformational initiatives. The role involves technical leadership, working with stakeholders, and mentoring junior staff. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in AWS and web application design, particularly in Agile environments. This position offers an opportunity to influence technical direction within a dynamic and inclusive organization.

Benefits

Healthcare

Retirement planning

Paid volunteering days

Wellbeing initiatives

Qualifications

• Proven technical architecture experience.
• Experience with Agile/SAFe methodologies.
• Understanding of information security concerns.

Responsibilities

• Design solutions for transformational and operational risk initiatives.
• Mentor technical leads and external consultants.
• Work closely with stakeholders on transformation programs.

Skills

Designing web applications

AWS expertise

BPM Implementation

Technical leadership

Interpersonal skills

Education

Relevant technical degree

Tools

Angular

.NET

Python

SQL

NoSQL

Job description

Overview

LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is more than a diversified global financial markets infrastructure and data business. We are dedicated, open-access partners with a commitment to excellence in delivering the services our customers expect from us. With extensive experience, deep knowledge and worldwide presence across financial markets, we enable businesses and economies around the world to fund innovation, manage risk and create jobs. It's how we've contributed to supporting the financial stability and growth of communities and economies globally for more than 300 years. Through a comprehensive suite of trusted financial market infrastructure services - and our open-access model - we provide the flexibility, stability and trust that enable our customers to pursue their ambitions with confidence and clarity.

LSEG is headquartered in the United Kingdom, with significant operations in 70 countries across EMEA, North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific. We employ 25,000 people globally, more than half located in Asia Pacific. LSEG's ticker symbol is LSEG.

Key responsibilities

• As a Senior Solutions Architect in Engineering Division, the individual will be responsible for designing solutions for varied transformational and operational risk initiatives across all the Index Platform estate. The candidate will hold specialization in designing web applications, middleware/API layer and AWS. The selected candidate is required to provide technical expertise, perform PoCs, take ownership, and responsibilities in end-to-end IT project delivery.
• Produce and promote high quality solution designs and application architectures that are aligned with the Group's architecture principles and strategy
• Work with business and technology stakeholders to produce current state / target state, drive transition plans and roadmap creation
• One needs to have Specialization on designing enterprise level web applications on multiple technology stacks - Angular, Java/C#.net, Python
• Solid experience on AWS Stack, SQL/No-SQL implementations
• Champion policies, procedures, and best practice design principles
• Analysis of business requirements to identify flexible and pragmatic design changes to development and production architecture
• Participate in vendor selection exercises and gap analysis activities, and where required work with them to understand influence their roadmaps to support strategic objectives
• Understand the balance between business drivers and purity of design
• Where required facilitate and develop Pocks to demonstrate new concepts or technology choices
• Work closely with group functions such as infrastructure, information security building relationships and becoming a trusted point of contact
• Prior experience of BPM Implementation is hugely advantageous

Leadership responsibilities

• Lead the detailed architecture design of the new business objective for the Index platform with specialization in designing web applications and process automation initiatives (BPM)
• Mentoring technical leads, and external consultants sharing their in-depth domain business knowledge and IT expertise to ensure an SME level knowledge base is maintained within Investment Solution IT.
• Support prioritizing technical backlog based on the business priorities for both BAU platforms as well as transformation initiatives

The role will focus on building capabilities to allow the launch of new B&I products and streamline the maintenance of existing products.

Technical / job functional knowledge

• Proven technical architecture experience covering common design patterns and platforms such as UIs, micro-services, data lakes, APIs, RDBMS, and NoSQL databases
• Strong familiarity of formal design and SDLC methodologies, in particular Agile/SAFe
• Significant experience of designing solutions in distributed highly resilient environments
• Significant experience of integrating enterprise application solutions
• Significant understanding of information security concerns and best practices
• Cloud solution design and architecture - both and IaaS ideally on AWS
• Experience in handling design dependencies on a highly complicated matrix structured organization

Business and sector expertise

• Deep understanding in Asset Management including Fixed Income, Equities and Multi-Asset Portfolio Analytics ideally with a background in indexes and benchmarks

Leadership and management experience

The role requires working with senior stakeholders on transformation programs. Dealing with third party delivery teams. Requires experience in technical thought leadership.

Personal skills and capabilities

• Articulate, energetic person able to work alone or as part of a team
• Passion to learn both new technologies and business concepts
• Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines
• Creative, results driven, self-motivated, and solutions oriented
• Excellent organizational and time management skills
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and ability to adapt to business, senior stakeholders, analysts, and developers
• Experience of managing or influencing key decision makers
• Able to establish credibility quickly!

Values and workplace

People are at the heart of what we do and drive the success of our business. Our colleagues thrive personally and professionally through our shared values of Integrity, Partnership, Innovation and Excellence. We embrace and actively seek to attract people with unique backgrounds and perspectives. We are always looking at ways to become more agile, so we meet the needs of our teams and customers. We believe that an inclusive collaborative workplace is pivotal to our success and supports the potential and growth of all colleagues at LSEG.

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 values of Integrity, Partnership, Excellence and Change underpin our purpose 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. We are an equal opportunities employer and strive to attract talent from diverse backgrounds. We encourage new ideas and are committed to sustainability across our global business, including our role in re-engineering the financial ecosystem to support sustainable economic growth, accelerating the just transition to net zero, and creating inclusive economic opportunity.

LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. This means that we do not discriminate on the basis of anyone's race, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We can reasonably accommodate applicants' and employees' practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical needs. Please read this privacy notice carefully, describing what personal information LSEG may hold about you, what it's used for, and how you can exercise your rights. If you are submitting as a Recruitment Agency Partner, ensure candidates are aware of this privacy notice.