Product Architect - Cloud Products

What the job involves
Product Architect - Cloud Products is a key role within the Cloud Products team, having responsibilities to define the product definition & lifecycle for Cloud Products.
Main focus of this role is to lead feature discovery, define functional and non-functional requirements for cloud-native products within LSEG, ensuring that products are aligned to business requirements, enabling development teams to optimally adopt services via CI / CD pipelines and facilitating migration of applications to public cloud based on Azure
Maintain and socialise a product roadmap for Cloud Products
Contribute to the Cloud Product Framework (CPF) and drive adoption of Cloud Products.
Contribute to the definition of standards and policies and ensure compliance for Cloud Products within CPF portfolio
Lead delivery of Azure services and support migration of applications to Azure tenants
Provide technical expertise in resolving engineering, coding and security and architecture issues,

• Define, Maintain, Drive, Implement and Socialise the Cloud Product Roadmap
• Drive adoption / consumption of Cloud Products for a variety of development teams
• Contribute to the definition of Policies and Controls and ensure compliance for all Cloud Products
• Lead discovery of new Azure services
• Lead delivery of existing Azure services & support migration of application to Azure tenants
• Provide technical expertise in resolving engineering, coding, security and architecture issues. Participate in tools, POC's and provide final analysis and recommendations
• Contribute to crafting educational materials and conducting training and mentoring sessions on Cloud Products and Services

Role is responsible for delivery of the following

• Product Ownership and Feature Discovery for a number of Cloud Products
• Designs, standards and best practices for the consumption of Azure products within LSEG
• Design, socialisation, maintenance and reporting on the Azure Cloud Product Roadmap
• Definition, implementation and maintenance of Cloud products of all phases of PDLC + (Product Development Life Cycle) on Azure Platform
• Define Service Catalogue Consumption and provision Cloud Products within a Service Catalogue framework
• Definition and delivery of standardised templates and scripts to facilitate IAC (Infrastructure as Code) and CI / CD Orchestration
• Definition of both high-level and detailed standards as to what optimum products looks like and demos / prototypes that can facilitate developer adoption
• Contribute and maintain a template library which includes standard solutions for common requirements, ensuring application teams become self-sufficient and that solutions for specific problems are only required to be solved once
• Work in an Enterprise organisation and connect with senior members of dev, architecture and infrastructure teams as needed

Requirements - hand on experience in the following

• Azure platform architecture and configuration including infrastructure, networking, storage, virtual machines and variety of Azure services as well as Azure Dev Ops
• Azure Architect certification highly desirable
• Analytical and problem solving skills including data analysis, trending, data-driven decisions
• Practice of agile methodologies, scrum, kanban, etc.
• Understanding and usage of Terraform Cloud Capabilities (or similar IAC toolset), including multi-cloud deployments

LSEG 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. Our values of Integrity, Partnership , Excellence and Change underpin our purpose and set the standard for everything we do, every day. They go to the heart of who we are and guide our decision making and everyday actions.
Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 65 countries. 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.
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