# Lead Data Architect - News Engineering

**Company**: London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG)
**Location**: London, GB
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We are seeking a Lead Data Architect to join our News Engineering group at LSEG. As a hands-on architect, you will define and evolve the data architecture that powers our real-time News platform, delivering richly structured and searchable news to customers worldwide in sub-second time.

You will lead end-to-end data architecture decisions for real-time news ingestion, enrichment, storage, indexing, and distribution. Develop data standards, schemas, and contracts for news content, metadata, and derived signals to ensure consistency and quality across the platform.

**Responsibilities**

- Strong experience as a Data Architect or Technical Architect working with large-scale, real-time data systems.

- Deep expertise in data modeling and contract definition.

- Experience designing architectures for low-latency, high-throughput systems.

- Experience with streaming and event-driven architectures.

- Familiarity with cloud-native data platforms and distributed systems.

- Ability to work independently, lead through influence, and communicate ideas clearly.

**Nice to Have**

- Knowledge of news data standards such as NewsML-G2 or similar structured content formats.

- Experience defining or implementing canonical data models.

- Familiarity with data governance, lineage, or data quality frameworks.

- Understanding search technologies (e.g., Elasticsearch or similar) and how data modeling impacts query performance.

- Experience working closely with senior product and engineering leaders.

**Benefits**

- Impact: Your work defines how critical news data is structured, discovered, and delivered to customers.

- Growth: Expand your influence across data architecture, platform strategy, and real-time analytics.

- Culture: We value clarity over complexity, ownership over hand-offs, and pragmatic architecture that delivers real results.

- Flexibility: Hybrid work options and a balanced work-life environment.

## Skills

### Required
- Data Architecture
- Data Modeling
- Cloud-Native Data Platforms
- Streaming Architectures
- Event-Driven Architectures

### Nice to have
- NewsML-G2
- Canonical Data Models
- Data Governance
- Search Technologies
- Elasticsearch

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