# Application Architect

**Company**: London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG)
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

As the Application Architect you will work with the Solution Architect of World-Check One - Risk Engineering. Risk Engineering and be responsible for the development of critical financial services such as World-Check One, Screening and Due Diligence

You will be a member of software engineering team who designs software solutions from the ground up, making high-level decisions about each stage of the process and directing a team of engineers to build the final product.

Responsibilities:

- Build Logical, Physical, Implementation and Process Solution Architecture designs where required.

- Be responsible for cloud infrastructure design and develop detailed architecture design for the application.

- Optimise cost of cloud solutions by identifying waste and automating cloud cost management and autoscaling.

- Support DevOps team with CICD automation.

- Support application development teams in negotiating governance, privacy gates, compliance and risk analysis.

- Ability to lead production issue RCA and resolution.

- Work with Product Owners and Business Analysts providing them with conceptual ideas of how solutions can be designed, at what cost and high-level timescales.

- Own, champion and lead all aspects of key quality of service requirements implementation for availability, recovery, reusability, performance, maintainability, security, capacity, and compatibility.

Requirements:

- Experience in architecting highly scalable and efficient distributed systems, using different open source tools.

- A consistent track record of delivering Application and Cloud Solution Architectures.

- Extensive experience selecting and implementing Cloud services, primarily AWS.

- Detailed understanding of Messaging Services for modern application architecture.

- In-depth experience using cloud patterns, multi-tenancy, sharding, priority queue, throttling, sidecar and CAP theorem.

- Understanding of polyglot persistence and hands-on experience with SQL and NoSQL solutions.

- Experience with MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, Elasticsearch and other relational databases.

- In-depth understanding of HTTP and REST API design, management, and consumption.

- Very strong Java skills and experienced with Python, Spring Boot, Node js and JavaScript.

- Understanding of use of AI as a tool and within applications.

- Experience implementing Enterprise Integration Patterns.

- Experience with authentication methods such as SAML, OIDC or Auth2.

- Extensive experience designing and implementing solutions for large systems that are scalable, extensible, performant, secure and highly available.

## Skills

### Required
- Cloud Solution Architecture
- Distributed Systems
- Cloud services
- Messaging Services
- Cloud patterns
- Polyglot persistence
- SQL and NoSQL solutions
- HTTP and REST API design
- Java
- Python
- Spring Boot
- Node js
- JavaScript
- Enterprise Integration Patterns
- Authentication methods

### Nice to have
- Understanding of the business domain
- Financial markets
- Banking and news

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