Architect, ADC/Quant
London Stock Exchange Group16 hours ago
London, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Define and own end-to-end target-state architecture across systems, data platforms, and cloud integrations.
- Publish and maintain architectural blueprints, design patterns, and engineering standards.
- Lead the Architecture Review Board process and ensure designs meet scalability, maintainability, performance, latency, and security requirements.
- Develop the roadmap for integrating AI, machine learning, and Generative AI into enterprise products.
- Establish AI governance, security guardrails, data privacy controls, and ethical compliance standards.
- Architect scalable data pipelines and MLOps or LLMOps capabilities for model training, fine-tuning, and low-latency inference.
- Champion AI-driven engineering tooling to improve developer productivity and code quality.
- Mentor Principal Engineers and Tech Leads and maintain architectural coherence across engineering domains.
- Lead investigations into performance bottlenecks, systemic incidents, and architectural pivots.
- Write prototype code, execute proof-of-concepts, and validate new AI tools and cloud services before broader adoption.
- Translate commercial objectives into technical roadmaps and communicate technical trade-offs and risks to business and executive stakeholders.
Requirements
- 8+ years of hands-on software engineering experience.
- At least 3+ years acting as a Principal or Senior Architect designing large-scale, high-throughput, mission-critical distributed systems.
- Advanced data architecture experience with Databricks, Microsoft Fabric, and large-scale data processing patterns such as Data Mesh and Lakehouse.
- Strong experience with data integration and relational platforms.
- Experience designing highly available hybrid and multi-cloud architectures using Azure and AWS.
- Experience designing architectures for AI/ML workloads, including LLM integration, predictive analytics, and vector search.
- Deep understanding of security architecture, secure SDLC practices, data privacy, and regulated financial-services compliance.
- Advanced knowledge of fault-tolerant architectures, SRE principles, observability, and cloud-native resilience patterns.
- Ability to influence engineering pods, product managers, and C-level executives without direct reporting authority.
- Strong stakeholder, client communication, mentoring, technical leadership, and commercial-awareness skills.
- Ability to work across varied technology stacks and rapidly build context in unfamiliar technologies.
Benefits
- Healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days, and wellbeing initiatives are offered.
- The role is based in London within LSEG's global financial-markets organization.
- Employees can participate in fundraising and volunteering through the LSEG Foundation.
- LSEG supports an equal-opportunity, collaborative, creative, and sustainability-focused workplace.
About London Stock Exchange Group
London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) provides market infrastructure, financial data, and analytics to banks, asset managers, and corporations. Its businesses span capital markets (London Stock Exchange), post-trade clearing (LCH), and information services including FTSE Russell indices and the Refinitiv data platform, funded by transaction fees, subscriptions, and licensing. Headquartered in London and publicly listed on the LSE, the group serves global customers seeking trading, clearing, benchmarks, and enterprise data solutions.