Director, Cloud Architecture (Network) - London Stock Exchange Group

Director, Cloud Architecture (Network) - London Stock Exchange GroupLSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is more than a diversified global financial markets infrastructure and data business. With extensive experience, deep knowledge and worldwide presence across financial markets, we enable businesses and economies around the world to fund innovation, manage risk and create jobs. It''s how we''ve contributed to supporting the financial stability and growth of communities and economies globally for more than 300 years. Through a comprehensive suite of trusted financial market infrastructure services - and our open-access model - we provide the flexibility, stability and trust that enable our customers to pursue their ambitions with confidence and clarity.LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is more than a diversified global financial markets infrastructure and data business. With extensive experience, deep knowledge and worldwide presence across financial markets, we enable businesses and economies around the world to fund innovation, manage risk and create jobs. It''s how we''ve contributed to supporting the financial stability and growth of communities and economies globally for more than 300 years. Through a comprehensive suite of trusted financial market infrastructure services - and our open-access model - we provide the flexibility, stability and trust that enable our customers to pursue their ambitions with confidence and clarity.LSEG is headquartered in the United Kingdom, with significant operations in 70 countries across EMEA, North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific. Our culture of connecting, creating opportunity and delivering excellence shape how we think, how we do things and how we help our people fulfil their potential. We embrace diversity and actively seek to attract individuals with unique backgrounds and perspectives. We break down barriers and encourage teamwork, enabling innovation and rapid development of solutions that make a difference. As a global organisation spanning 70 countries and one rooted in a culture of growth, opportunity, diversity and innovation, LSEG is a place where everyone can grow, develop and fulfil your potential with meaningful careers.Reporting into the Cloud and Productivity Engineering Organisation, this role that will own and deliver the London Stock Exchange Group''s public cloud and developer architecture.Innovation is at the heart of this program and the role/key focus areas will continuously evolve to meet the business change, security, and our digital strategy!The Director, Cloud Architecture (Network) will provide the leadership, drive and focus on the strategy, design and evolution London Stock Exchange Group''s strategic public and private cloud platform. A successful leader in this role will have examples of defining and curating the Cloud and Developer strategy, standards, processes, methodologies, and architecture to enable business innovation, simplify technology landscape and improve overall operational excellence.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 environmentAct as a Cloud evangelist, helping leaders understand the benefits, challenges and implications of adopting cloud and helping their teams move to cloudBuild relationships and 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 bodiesIn part perform the task of Agile ''Product Owner'' for the cloud platform.SDLC - Continuous Integration and Delivery, Application Security, Quality AssuranceProcesses - Agile, Lean, Product DevelopmentSoftware engineering with exposure to event high performance computing, event driven, big data analytics, machine learningProgram language polyglot (C, C++, C#, Java, Rust, Go, Python)Enterprise and Solution ArchitectureCloud and On-Premise NetworkingAbility to effect technological and cultural change towards rapid technology adoption and absorption (for example, automation first implementations, making base infrastructure and platforms a fabric with which to build upon)Excellent planning and communication skills and able to lead conversations with development and product teamsStrong team building and coaching approach; Ability to foster a high trust environment, in which considered risks taking can occur and innovation thrivesExposure and awareness of modern-day programming languagesProven awareness of the latest developments in today''s public cloud industry (AWS / Azure etc) and related industry benchmark / best practice projectsProven track record working in agile environments under a DevOps cultureDeep understanding of operating systems, network infrastructures, RDBMS etcExperience with infrastructure-as-code software Exposure to automated testing toolsKnowledge of continuous integration - continuous deployment pipelinesRecognised deep proficiency with Azure, AWS and GCP servicesLSEG is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider. Our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.Our purpose is the foundation on which our culture is built. 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.