
Director, Cloud Architecture – Network
LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group)
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Office
Location: London • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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Lead
Tech Stack
AWSAzureCloudGoGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaKubernetesPythonRDBMSRustSDLC
About the role
- Drive the acceleration, adoption and migration of applications to the public cloud targeting moving the majority of the overall combined LSEG / Refinitiv estate to the cloud
- Own the technical / architectural integrity and strategic roadmap of the Cloud Networking and be accountable for successful delivery of the business / technical outcome
- Retire and or decommission a number of the data centres across the globe to a cloud hosted environment
- Work with the Group CISO and the broader IT security teams to improve security controls
- Leverages emerging & innovative technologies in Cloud and development to enable simplification of technology landscape and service consumption to improve customer experience and drive cost reduction
- Work with chapters to define cloud and developer service strategy including standards, blueprints, processes, and patterns
- Act as a Cloud evangelist, helping leaders understand the benefits, challenges and implications of adopting cloud and helping their teams move to cloud
- Build relationships & collaborate across the Engineering community to establish and implement consistent architecture across all Digital platforms which delivers LSEG’s future technology needs and approved by relevant governing bodies
- Build relationships and collaborate with the cloud platform 'customers' and communicate with senior stakeholders up to C Level
- In part perform the task of Agile 'Product Owner' for the cloud platform
- Ensure feedback and learning is obtained and utilised as early and often as possible
Requirements
- Proven deep technical background working with related infrastructure technologies
- Experience with SDLC – Continuous Integration & Delivery, Application Security, Quality Assurance
- Platforms – Istio, Serverless, Kubernetes
- Processes - Agile, Lean, Product Development
- Culture - DevSecOps, Continuous Change
- Software engineering with exposure to event high performance computing, event driven, big data analytics, machine learning
- Program language polyglot (C, C++, C#, Java, Rust, Go, Python)
- Enterprise and Solution Architecture
- Cloud and On-Premise Networking
- Ability to effect technological and cultural change towards rapid technology adoption and absorption
- Team player with a proven track record in delivering successful business outcomes
- Excellent planning and communication skills and able to lead conversations with development and product teams
- Strong influencing skills and significant negotiation experience
- Strong team building and coaching approach; develops, equips and releases leaders
- Experience of guiding and motivating a global team to deliver to their maximum potential
- Ability to foster a high trust environment, in which considered risks taking can occur and innovation thrives
- Exposure and awareness of modern-day programming languages
- Demonstrable understanding of PaaS/ SaaS/ IaaS and use cases and best practices in public cloud
- Proven awareness of the latest developments in today's public cloud industry (AWS / Azure etc) and related industry benchmark / best practice projects
- Proven track record working in agile environments under a DevOps culture
- Deep understanding of operating systems, network infrastructures, RDBMS
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code software
- Exposure to automated testing tools
- Knowledge of continuous integration - continuous deployment pipelines
- Recognised deep proficiency with Azure, AWS & GCP services
Benefits
- Healthcare
- Retirement planning
- Paid volunteering days
- Wellbeing initiatives
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
Cloud NetworkingSDLCContinuous IntegrationContinuous DeliveryApplication SecurityQuality AssuranceKubernetesEvent Driven ComputingMachine LearningInfrastructure-as-Code
Soft skills
Team playerExcellent planningCommunication skillsStrong influencing skillsNegotiation experienceTeam buildingCoachingFostering trustCultural changeLeadership