Architect

We have an exciting opportunity for an Architect to support Finance programmes through delivery of a comprehensive data and technology strategy supporting Transformation targets.

You will be joining a dedicated and collaborative team as we strive to deliver excellence to our customers. The ideal candidate needs to have a strong delivery record in delivering data frameworks, architecture and operating models.

Responsibilities:

• Reviewing and assessing business functional and control requirements, and help define and steer operational and non-functional requirements
• Designing technical architecture solutions (products and services) for Finance to align with the organisational technical strategy and standards
• Providing a consistent set of solution views, that communicate and describe the construction of the solution to all stakeholders
• Aligning solutions and options against business requirements, including benefits and risks
• Supporting vendor selection and assessment against potential internal and external solutions (On-Prem/PaaS/SaaS)
• Impacting assessment against current and emerging engineering landscape for Finance, and wider LSEG technology landscape
• Supporting delivery teams, blending technical (development and architecture) and behaviour (stakeholder and communication) skills
• Reviewing detailed design, support code reviews and other artefacts from development, testing and release management teams, to provide recommendations and best practices
• Ensuring technical quality and adherence of solution designs to the organisation’s Digital Blueprint, Enterprise Architecture, and Product Roadmaps
• Using architecture design and modelling techniques, patterns, tools, and standards for design delivery
• Communicating and presenting to governance forums for review, ratification and signoffs against new design patterns
• Working closely with business, operations and technology stakeholders and end-users to build a holistic view of the problem statements, and mitigating options towards resolution
• Analysing business needs and working closely with the stakeholders, for evaluation and design of complex ecosystems which revolves around CRM, Billing , ERP, sales & marketing and any other systems where customer footprint occurs across the organization. This involves building a comprehensive technical design including data models, integrations, user interfaces, and security configurations.

Requirements:

• Experience in architecture patterns and flows for Finance. Oracle experience (DB, Fusion SaaS, ORMB or EPM) will be a plus
• Experience in Architecture, design and delivery for Cloud (AWS, Azure, Oracle) and on-prem platforms including integrations to key services
• Excellent understanding of data and data concepts for capturing and reporting data
• Professional experience to carry out all the activities independently to support streams within the Finance functions
• Previous experience of delivering strategic data solutions against Customer, Finance, compliance or Risk requirements (e.g. orders, billing, accounting, procurement) in banking and financial services, similar regulated organisations or a business-to-business sales organisation
• Experience handling products on different solution models (SaaS, PaaS, managed service etc.)
• Proven track record of using industry standard processes and frameworks
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with ability to communicate technical information to non-technical partners and to listen to identified concerns and adapt accordingly