Application Architect (ADL Workbench)

About the Company

Join LSEG’s World-Check Risk Intelligence Team Empowering screening platform with trusted data and cutting-edge technology. World-Check Risk Intelligence provides accurate, reliable information and powerful tools to support compliance with due diligence obligations, including Know Your Customer (KYC) screening and anti-money laundering (AML) requirements. We are seeking an experienced Application Architect with deep expertise in AWS cloud technologies, proof-of-concept (POC) development, and data modeling. This role is responsible for designing end-to-end platform architectures, user interaction models, application integrations, data flows, and platform dependencies, ensuring alignment with business objectives, enterprise standards, cyber security compliance, and long-term scalability requirements with close collaboration with business stakeholders, product teams, engineering teams, and data specialists to deliver high-quality, future-ready solutions that support organizational growth and digital transformation. At LSEG, we prioritize equal opportunity and are committed to building diverse teams that foster collaboration and innovation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design end-to-end application architectures for AWS cloud-native platform solutions.
• Create high-level and low-level solution designs covering application, integration, data, cyber security, and infrastructure components.
• Lead architecture reviews and provide technical governance throughout the project lifecycle.
• Lead rapid prototyping and proof-of-concept initiatives to validate business and technical feasibility.
• Ensure solutions are scalable, reliable, secure, and aligned with enterprise architecture principles.
• Enforce best practices for cloud-native, microservices, and domain-driven and event-driven architectures.
• Present architecture recommendations, findings, and implementation roadmaps to stakeholders.
• Support technology selection and platform assessment activities.
• Collaborate with product, solution architect, and security teams to align solutions with business goals.
• Collaborate with data engineers and analytics teams to ensure alignment between application and data architecture.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 8+ years of software engineering and application architecture experience.
• 3+ years of hands-on AWS solution architecture experience.
• Proven experience designing enterprise-scale applications and domain-driven design (DDD) with solid understanding of AWS architecture, micro-services, APIs, and event-driven systems.
• Experience with DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code.
• Experience with AI-assisted development tools (e.g. GitHub Copilot, Claude Code)
• Excellent problem-solving, collaboration, communication, and leadership skills across product and engineering teams.
• Proven a positive and high-energy personal commitment with a collaborative mindset.
• Experience with AI/ML services on AWS (Bedrock, SageMaker) is considered an advantage.
• Familiarity with data engineering, machine learning, or AI technologies is considered an advantage.