Principal Architect – Finance

Role Summary

We have an exciting opportunity for an Architect to support Finance programmes through delivery of a comprehensive data and technology strategy supporting Transformation targets.

Career Stage: Manager

What You’ll Be Doing

• Review and assess business functional and control requirements, and help define and steer operational and non-functional requirements
• Design technical architecture solutions (products and services) for Finance to align with the organisational technical strategy and standards
• Provide a consistent set of solution views that communicate and describe the construction of the solution to all stakeholders
• Align solutions and options against business requirements, including benefits and risks
• Support vendor selection and assessment against potential internal and external solutions (On‑Prem/PaaS/SaaS)
• Impact assessment against current and emerging engineering landscape for Finance and wider LSEG technology landscape
• Support delivery teams, blending technical (development and architecture) and behaviour (stakeholder and communication) skills
• Review detailed design, support code reviews and other artefacts from development, testing and release management teams, to provide recommendations and best practices
• Ensure technical quality and adherence of solution designs to the organisation’s Digital Blueprint, Enterprise Architecture, and Product Roadmaps
• Use architecture design and modelling techniques, patterns, tools, and standards for design delivery
• Communicate and present to governance forums for review, ratification and sign‑offs against new design patterns
• Work closely with business, operations and technology stakeholders and end‑users to build a holistic view of the problem statements, and mitigating options towards resolution
• Analyse business needs and evaluate and design complex ecosystems involving CRM, Billing, ERP, sales & marketing, and other customer‑footprint systems, building comprehensive technical designs including data models, integrations, user interfaces and security configurations

What You’ll Bring

• Experience in architecture patterns and flows for Finance
• Oracle experience (DB, Fusion SaaS, ORMB or EPM) will be a plus
• Experience in Architecture, design and delivery for Cloud (AWS, Azure, Oracle) and on‑prem platforms including integrations to key services
• Excellent understanding of data and data concepts for capturing and reporting data
• Professional experience to carry out all the activities independently to support streams within the Finance functions
• Previous experience delivering strategic data solutions against Customer, Finance, compliance or Risk requirements (e.g., orders, billing, accounting, procurement) in banking and financial services, regulated organisations or B2B sales organisations
• Experience handling products on different solution models (SaaS, PaaS, managed service, etc.)
• Proven track record of using industry standard processes and frameworks
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with ability to convey technical information to non‑technical partners and adapt accordingly

Equal Opportunities

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of anyone’s race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. Conforming with applicable law, we can reasonably accommodate applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.

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