Cloud & Developer Architect, Director

London Stock Exchange Group
New York, NY

Key responsibilities

  • Support the evolution of Group CDA strategies

  • Work with the new ways of working operating model focusing on building a Communities of Practice (CoP) framework

  • Establish first tranche of CoP's, focusing on the continual operations and tuning of the agile practice and ensuring that the CoP's are running constructively

  • Work with Communities of Practice to define cloud and developer service strategies, standards, architecture, blueprints, processes, and patterns

  • Influence the wider technology community and leverages relationships with other technology functions, vendors, and industry to seek and adopt best practices in CDA

  • 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

  • Provides leadership in defining technical integration architecture strategy including IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, SDLC, Web3 and EAI

  • Advocate adoption of Agile new ways of working and a continuous improvement framework to drive efficiency and enable business agility

  • Fosters a culture of continuous improvement in both internal processes and practices, and external solutions and deliverables

  • Evaluate regulatory changes and plan and implement changes to always ensure compliance

  • Ensures the team workstreams and projects are well managed and appropriate tracking and reporting undertaken, implements a communications strategy and keeps business value focus

  • Provides leadership, coaching and development to the team to drive high performance

  • Establish a strong relationship with key stakeholders and support the selection of a strategic partner and establish deliverables

  • Support Cloud and Developer analysis

  • Analysis of elements that include workload scheduling

  • Defining a migration factory approach to Cloud

  • Observability assessments and progression

  • Special projects including a review of Group wide storage capacity & optimisation and accelerating cloud migration

Leadership responsibilities

  • Attract, retain, and engage diverse talent
  • Champion team development and grow capabilities for the future
  • Inspire team to own the vision
  • Deliver outstanding execution without compromising quality
  • Take ownership of outcomes
  • Connect across the organisation to bring the right expertise and diverse thinkers
  • Bring thought leadership, show curiosity about trends and customer needs
  • Communicate with credibility to inspire trust
  • Think strategically to create lasting opportunities

Critical deliverables

  • Support the definition and evangelise the group Cloud & developer strategies
  • Define and evangelise standards, patterns, blueprints, and processes in support of improving CDA in partnership with the architecture and engineering community
  • Work with legal, risk, audit, and compliance to stay abreast with policy, regulations and controls changes and adapt standards, patterns, blueprints, and processes when necessary
  • Define requirements and architecture for Group wide CDA products and services in support of the CDA strategy
  • Own the delivery of Communities of Practice, delivered in phases and with key performance indicators actively measured and managed.
  • Support cloud expansion with tranche planning and migration factory management.

Impact

CDA is the activity of studying, improving, and optimizing how business and technology can innovate and develop existing and new products and services utilising Cloud and developer technologies.

CDA will improve customer and developer experience which leads to high quality, highly productive, projects.

CDA will be an enabler of a culture of continuous change in support of a Group strategy to achieve excellence in developer experience.

Key areas of focus -

  • Culture & Strategy
  • Standards, Processes & Methodologies
  • Patterns & Blueprints
  • Product Management and Enabling Business
  • New Ways of Working
  • Cloud & Developer Platforms, Tools & Services
  • Attracting and Retaining Talent

Key KPIs

  • Delivery of CDA strategy
  • Delivery of a CDA operation model that includes Communities of Practice and integration with the technology organisation
  • Communities of Practice that produce more than 6 artifacts a year: service strategy, standards or patterns
  • Communities of Practice that produce service architectures

Technical / job functional knowledge

  • Experience with the following technology areas

  • SDLC - Continuous Integration & Delivery, Application Security, Quality Assurance

  • Platforms - Service Mesh, Serverless, Kubernetes

  • Processes - Agile, Lean, Product Development

  • Culture - DevSecOps, Continuos Change

  • Public cloud architecture (AWS/Azure/GCP) experience is preferrable

  • Software engineering with exposure to event high performance computing, event driven, big data analytics, machine learning

  • Program language polyglot (C#, Java, Go, Python, PHP, Terraform HCL, Bash, PowerShell)

  • Enterprise and Solution Architecture

Business and sector expertise

  • Financial trading, data analytics, data distribution, capital markets and post trade across equities, derivatives, and OTC
  • High frequency trading and matching, including ultra-low latency tuning techniques, monitoring and nano second level time sync.
  • Full System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) experience in any industry
  • Platform development and architecture
  • Good exposure to web, desktop, and server software development
  • Exposure to a wide range of software development, quality assurance and application security tools

Leadership and management experience

  • 20+ years of engineering experience
  • 10+ years of engineering team leadership experience
  • 10+ years of architecture (solution / enterprise) experience
  • 10+ years of experience leading technical working groups, forums, and committees

Personal skills and capabilities

  • Collegiate
  • Collaborative
  • Analytical
  • Structured
  • Organised
  • Self-motivated

Compensation/Benefits Information (New York City applicants only):

LSEG is committed to offering competitive Compensation and benefits. The anticipated base salary for this position is $175,600 - $326,000.

Please be aware base salary ranges may vary by geographic location, city and state. In addition to our offered base salary, this role is eligible for our annual incentive (AIP/"bonus plan"). Target AIP rates will be commensurate with role level and posted career stage. Individual salary will be reflective of job related knowledge, skills and commensurate experience. All roles are typically eligible for inclusion in our LSEG benefit program, more information & details will be provided at time of offer.

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