Job Description

A senior member of the solution architecture team focussing on the delivery of Index management capabilities for the FTSE Russell Index teams to achieve their strategic objectives.

Duties

Produce and promote high quality solution designs and application architectures that are aligned with the architecture principles and strategies

Work with business and technology stakeholders to produce current state / target state, drive transition plans

Champion policies, procedures, and best practice design principles

Analysis of business requirements to identify flexible and pragmatic design changes to development and production architecture

Act as a technical consultant providing technical knowledge, coaching/mentoring, leveraging knowledge of industry trends and best practices

Participate in vendor selection exercises and gap analysis activities, and where required work with them to understand influence their roadmaps to support strategic objectives

Understand the balance between business drivers and purity of design

Where required facilitate and develop Pocks to demonstrate new concepts or technology choices

Work closely with group functions such as infrastructure, information security building relationships and becoming a trusted point of contact

Take ownership of platform roadmaps, acting as a point of contact for senior stakeholders when exploring new opportunities

Relationships
- Head of Equity Index Product Management
- Head of Fixed Income Index Product Management
- Product Delivery and Integration Director
- Head of Product Research
- Business Manager, Index Business
- Head of Index Management
- Head of Index Delivery
- Head of Equity Index Management
- Director, Index Management Strategy
- Head of Index Change
- Head of Index Business Management
- Lead Business Governance Officer
- Index Business Manager
- Lead Business Manager
- Compliance Rep for FTSE Russell
- Compliance Rep for RBSL
- Global Head of ETFs
- Head of Global Accounts
- Head of Marketing Index
- Director, Product Delivery
- Busines Transformation / Portfolio Manager

Committees
- Index Technology TLT
- Index Management Board
- Cloud Board
- FTSE Russell Operations Committee

Technical / job functional knowledge

• Degree qualified in a science or IT based discipline
• Proven technical architecture experience covering common design patterns and platforms such as micro-services, data lakes, APIs, RDBMS, and NoSQL databases
• Strong familiarity of formal design and SDLC methodologies, in particular Agile/SAFe
• Significant experience of designing solutions in distributed highly resilient environments
• Significant experience of integrating enterprise application solutions
• Significant understanding of information security concerns and best practices
• Cloud solution design and architecture \xe2\x80\x93 both native and IaaS ideally on AWS

Experience in handling design dependencies on a highly complicated matrix structured organization

Business and sector expertise

Understanding in Asset Management including Fixed Income, Equities and Multi-Asset Portfolio Analytics ideally with a background in indexes and benchmarks

Personal skills and capabilities

• Articulate, energetic person able to work alone or as part of a team
• Excellent attention to detail but an ability to think laterally to solve business problems
• Passion to learn both new technologies and business concepts
• Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines
• Creative, results driven, self-motivated, and solutions oriented
• Excellent organizational and time management skills
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and ability to adapt to business, senior stakeholders, analysts, and developers
• Experience of managing or influencing key decision makers

Able to establish credibility quickly

Diversity & Inclusion

People are at the heart of what we do and drive the success of our business. Our colleagues thrive personally and professionally through our shared values of Integrity, Partnership, Innovation and Excellence are at the core of our culture. We embrace diversity and actively seek to attract people with unique backgrounds and perspectives. We are always looking at ways to become more agile, so we meet the needs of our teams and customers. We believe that an inclusive collaborative workplace is pivotal to our success and supports the potential and growth of all colleagues at LSEG.

At LSEG, we believe that creating a diverse and inclusive organisation is fundamental to the way we deliver on our promise of creating essential partnerships and open opportunities. Our open culture is central to how we deliver our purpose \xe2\x80\x93 driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth \xe2\x80\x93 in everything we do.

Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 70 countries. However, we will value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce. You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas and are committed to sustainability across our global business. You will experience the critical role we have in helping to re-engineer the financial ecosystem to support and drive sustainable economic growth. Together, we are aiming to achieve this growth by accelerating the just transition to net zero, enabling growth of the green economy and creating inclusive economic opportunity.

LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.

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