Principal Cloud Architect

About Us:

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 dedication 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.

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Role Description:

Reporting into the Cloud and Productivity Engineering Organisation, this role that will own and deliver the London Stock Exchange Group’s public cloud & developer architecture.  Innovation is at the heart of this program and the role/key focus areas will continuously evolve to meet the business change, security, and our digital strategy.

The Head of Cloud Architecture will provide the leadership, drive and focus on the strategy, design and evolution London Stock Exchange Groups strategic public and private cloud platform.

This role will own, lead, and develop a global dispersed team which will own the strategy & design across the cloud platform and development toolchain. A successful leader in this role will have examples of defining and curating the Cloud and Developer strategy, standards, processes, methodologies, and architecture to enable business innovation, simplify technology landscape and improve overall operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities:

• Drive the acceleration, adoption and migration of applications to the public cloud targeting moving the majority of the overall combined LSEG / Refinitiv estate to the cloud
• Own the technical / architectural integrity and strategic roadmap of the Cloud and be accountable for successful delivery of the business / technical outcome.
• Retire and or decommission a number of the data centres across the globe to a cloud hosted environment
• Work with the Group CISO and the broader IT security teams to improve security controls
• Leverages emerging & innovative technologies in Cloud and development to enable simplification of technology landscape and service consumption to improve customer experience and drive cost reduction
• Work with chapters to define cloud and developer service strategy including standards, blueprints, processes, and patterns.
• Act as a Cloud evangelist, helping leaders understand the benefits, challenges and implications of adopting cloud and helping their teams move to cloud
• Build relationships & collaborate across the Engineering community to establish and implement consistent architecture across all Digital platforms which delivers LSEG’s future technology needs and approved by relevant governing bodies
• Build relationships and collaborate with the cloud platform 'customers' and communicate with senior stakeholders up to C Level
• In part perform the task of Agile 'Product Owner' for the cloud platform. 
• Ensure feedback and learning is obtained and utilised as early and often as possible

Candidate Profile / Key Skills:

• Proven deep technical background working with related infrastructure technologies
• Experience with the following technology areas
  • SDLC – Continuous Integration & Delivery, Application Security, Quality Assurance
  • Platforms – Istio, Serverless, Kubernetes
  • Processes - Agile, Lean, Product Development
  • Culture - DevSecOps, Continuous Change
  • Software engineering with exposure to event high performance computing, event driven, big data analytics, machine learning
  • Program language polyglot (C, C++, C#, Java, Rust, Go, Python)
  • Enterprise and Solution Architecture
• Proven experience working in a senior technology role (e.g. technical / infrastructure / enterprise architect) within a public cloud environment (ideally with AWS or Azure) in a large enterprise environment
• Ability to effect technological and cultural change towards rapid technology adoption and absorption (for example, “automation first” implementations, making base infrastructure and platforms a fabric with which to build upon)
• Team player with a proven track record in delivering successful business outcomes
• Excellent planning and communication skills and able to lead conversations with development and product teams
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment
• Strong influencing skills and significant negotiation experience
• Strong team building and coaching approach; develops, equips and releases leaders
• Experience of guiding and motivating a distributed team to deliver to their maximum potential
• Ability to foster a high trust environment, in which considered risks taking can occur and innovation thrives
• Exposure and awareness of modern-day programming languages
• Demonstrable understanding of PaaS/ SaaS/ IaaS and use cases and standard methodologies in public cloud
• Proven awareness of the latest developments in today's public cloud industry (AWS / Azure etc) and related industry benchmark / best practice projects
• Proven track record working in agile environments under a DevOps culture
• Deep understanding of operating systems, network infrastructures, RDBMS etc
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code software Exposure to automated testing tools
• Knowledge of continuous integration - continuous deployment pipelines
• Recognised deep proficiency with Azure, AWS & GCP services

Benefits:

We are looking for intellectually curious people, passionate about the bigger picture of how technology industry is evolving, ready to ask difficult questions and deal with complicated scenarios! If you are creative and a problem solver, this is the place to be as will be supporting you to fast-forward your career!

We maximise each employee’s potential through personal development through a wide range of learning tools both formal and informal. We believe in remunerating our people with competitive salaries and a range of attractive benefits such as:

• 25 days’ holiday per year
• 1 additional day off for your Birthday
• Annual wellness allowance
• Share Purchase Plan
• Medical Health Insurance
• Medical Subscription (preventive medical services)
• Dental Coverage
• Life insurance
• Pillar 3 Private Pension
• Meal Vouchers
• Flexible Benefits
• Bookster
• Volunteering Events
• All LSEG colleagues with at least one year’s continuous service, who become parents, are now entitled to at least 26 weeks’ paid leave, and the option to return to work on a phased basis, in relation with specific company’s policy and guidelines

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 purpose is the foundation on which our culture is built. Our values of Integrity, Partnership, Excellence and Change underpin our purpose and set the standard for everything we do, every day. They go to the heart of who we are 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. However, we will value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce. You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas and are committed to sustainability across our global business. You will experience the critical role we have in helping to re-engineer the financial ecosystem to support and drive sustainable economic growth. Together, we are aiming to achieve this growth by accelerating the just transition to net zero, enabling growth of the green economy 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, 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.

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