Principle, Ct Solution Architect

This is an excellent opportunity to be one of the key people involved in defining and governing marketing technology/Internal digital platforms and developing roadmaps across the organisation.

Following the acquisition of Refinitiv, LSEG now has multiple technologies and platforms for digital properties. As part of the Corporate Technology Architecture team, your role is to guide, advise, and recommend how our digital world evolves over the coming years and migrates toward strategic platforms.

Key Responsibilities:

- Work with Business Stakeholders, Product Owners, and Business Analysts to understand functional and non-functional requirements and interact with other cross-functional teams.
- Provide strategic mentorship and direction to internal teams for maximising their digital marketing effectiveness
- Contribute to Employees' & Customers' digital strategies based on industry best practices
- Ensure all architects working in the domain understand the architecture principles, policies, and standards to produce function-specific reference architectures and solutions, and ensure all architects working in the domain adhere to these
- Manage relationships with members of Corporate Technology leadership to influence the adoption of Enterprise Architecture frameworks, standards and policies
- Maximise relationships with vendors, regulators and industry bodies to seek and adopt industry standard methodologies in enterprise architecture and technology strategy
- Act as a trusted advisor and leader across the wider LSEG Technology.
- To be the lead architect for Employee Experience (EX) and MarTech Solutions.
- To work with other architects to define the end-to-end solution & design covering all involved systems, data, integration, security and non-functional requirements. This will be captured in a Solution Architect document.
- To take the Solution design through relevant governance forums so that they can be implemented in line with LSEG processes
- Ensure all solutions follow Corporate Technology and enterprise solution standards, align with the overall roadmap, have good quality documentation, and follow all relevant governance steps
- Drive and establish a Centre of Excellence (CoE) for key strategic platforms in the domain, e.g. Microsoft SharePoint and Viva, CDP, and Eloqua.

Key relationships and committees:

- Strong relationships with broader Corporate Technology team, other Technology teams covering Enterprise Architecture team, security, networking, End User Compute and Cloud and business stakeholders in corporate business functions, e.g., Marketing, Internal Comms, Security, User Experience, SEO, Analytics, Personalisation, Risk & Compliance

Critical Deliverables:

- Deliver an effective architecture covering Employee Experience and MarTech that complements the overall Corporate Technology Architecture and the central architecture strategy
- All Solution Architecture deliverables for the domain are delivered in a timely manner, to a high standard and follow appropriate governance with a 100% audit trail
- Implement Corporate Technology aligned domain-based Governance Functions that feed into the Corporate Technology Architecture Review Board framework whilst enabling agile and rapid delivery of technology in line with business goals, risk and control appetite
- Support the implementation of an architectural strategy for Corporate Technology that enables transparent and action-orientated collaboration across all of CT, in order to provide clear and quick decisions to downstream teams
- A fully articulated Solution Architecture Document that includes details on end-to-solution from a conceptual, logical and physical level
- Gathering approvals for the solution architecture through the LSEG Governance processes

N.B. The role holder will be Accountable for the delivery of this document but is expected to work with Subject Matter Experts to complete sections outside the role holder's expertise.

Technical Knowledge:

- Detailed knowledge of Enterprise Architecture, Technology Strategy, Cloud and Security
- Detailed knowledge of operational, delivery management (including experience in a variety of delivery methodologies), business development and strategy and organisational transformation programmes
- Experienced in architecting, delivering and supporting of following:

- Microsoft SharePoint and Teams
- Microsoft Viva
- Microsoft Azure Active Directory
- Adobe Experience Platform (CDP)
- Adobe Experience Cloud
- Adobe Audience Manager
- Digital and Marketing Technologies
- Cloud platforms like AWS and Azure
- Expertise and understanding in the following languages and technologies: HTML, HTML5, JavaScript, XML, Java, WCM, ReactJS, AngularJS, headless CMS, services-based architecture, REST, Web analytics, content targeting
- Expertise and understanding of end-to-end DevOps tools and processes
- Knowledge of current digital marketing trends and best practices on topics such as personalisation, cross-ch