Senior Architect, ADC/Quant
London Stock Exchange Group2 hours ago
London, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end target-state architecture across diverse systems, data platforms, and cloud integrations.
- Publish and maintain architectural blueprints, design patterns, and engineering excellence standards.
- Lead the Architecture Review Board process and enforce non-functional requirements for scalability, maintainability, performance, latency, and security.
- Define the architecture roadmap and secure governance controls for AI, machine learning, Generative AI, LLMs, data privacy, and ethical compliance.
- Architect scalable data pipelines and MLOps/LLMOps capabilities for model training, fine-tuning, and low-latency inference.
- Champion AI-driven engineering tooling, including coding assistants and automated testing generation.
- Mentor Principal Engineers and Tech Leads and maintain architectural coherence across multiple engineering domains.
- Lead investigations into performance bottlenecks, systemic incidents, technical debt, and architectural pivots.
- Write prototype code, execute proofs of concept, and validate new AI tools and cloud services hands-on.
- Translate business and commercial objectives into technical roadmaps and communicate trade-offs and risks to senior 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.
- Strong experience with data integration and relational platforms.
- Proven experience designing highly available hybrid and multi-cloud architectures using Azure and AWS.
- Experience designing architectures that support AI/ML workloads, including LLMs, predictive analytics, and vector search.
- Deep understanding of security architecture, secure SDLC practices, data privacy, and compliance requirements in regulated financial services.
- Advanced knowledge of fault-tolerant architectures, SRE principles, observability, and cloud-native resilience patterns.
- Track record of influencing cross-functional engineering teams, product managers, and C-level executives without direct reporting authority.
- Exceptional stakeholder, client communication, mentoring, technical leadership, and architectural abstraction 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.
- Collaborative and creative culture with support for new ideas.
- Equal-opportunity employer with reasonable accommodation for religious practices and mental or physical disabilities.
- Opportunity to work in a global organization of approximately 25,000 people across 65 countries.