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LSEG’s News Engineering group is looking for a Lead News Data Architect to define and evolve the data architecture that powers our real‑time News platform, delivering richly structured and searchable news to customers worldwide in sub‑second time
You’ll work at the intersection of data modeling, metadata standards, and search technologies, with the opportunity to influence platform‑wide decisions and long‑term strateg
As a news architect in the News team at LSEG, you will lead end‑to‑end data architecture decisions for real‑time news ingestion, enrichment, storage, indexing, and distribution
Develop data standards, schemas, and contracts for news content, metadata, and derived signals to ensure consistency and quality across the platform. Partner closely with engineering teams improving signal discoverability through normalizing metadata and implementing industry standards
Ensure data architectures support observability and lineage while providing customers with a simple, straight-forward experience for working with News from LSEG. We encourage pragmatic experimentation with new tools, libraries, and approaches when they improve reliability, performance, or developer experience

This role is ideal for hands‑on architects who want to be individual contributors and technical leaders
Experience with streaming and event‑driven architectures
Experience designing architectures for low‑latency, high‑throughput systems
Ability to work independently, lead through influence, and communicate ideas clearly
Deep expertise in data modeling and contract definition
Familiarity with cloud‑native data platforms and distributed systems
Strong experience as a Data Architect or Technical Architect working with large‑scale, real‑time data systems
Knowledge of news data standards such as NewsML‑G2 or similar structured content formats
Experience defining or implementing canonical data models
Familiarity with data governance, lineage, or data quality frameworks
Understanding search technologies (e.g., Elasticsearch or similar) and how data modeling impacts query performance
Experience working closely with senior product and engineering leaders

Lead Data Architect (News Engineering)

Compensation

Not disclosed

Location

London, United Kingdom

Work setup

Not specified

Seniority

Lead

Employment

Contract

Experience

Not specified

LSEG’s News Engineering group is looking for a Lead News Data Architect to define and evolve the data architecture that powers our real‑time News platform, delivering richly structured and searchable news to customers worldwide in sub‑second time
You’ll work at the intersection of data modeling, metadata standards, and search technologies, with the opportunity to influence platform‑wide decisions and long‑term strateg
As a news architect in the News team at LSEG, you will lead end‑to‑end data architecture decisions for real‑time news ingestion, enrichment, storage, indexing, and distribution
Develop data standards, schemas, and contracts for news content, metadata, and derived signals to ensure consistency and quality across the platform. Partner closely with engineering teams improving signal discoverability through normalizing metadata and implementing industry standards
Ensure data architectures support observability and lineage while providing customers with a simple, straight-forward experience for working with News from LSEG. We encourage pragmatic experimentation with new tools, libraries, and approaches when they improve reliability, performance, or developer experience

This role is ideal for hands‑on architects who want to be individual contributors and technical leaders
Experience with streaming and event‑driven architectures
Experience designing architectures for low‑latency, high‑throughput systems
Ability to work independently, lead through influence, and communicate ideas clearly
Deep expertise in data modeling and contract definition
Familiarity with cloud‑native data platforms and distributed systems
Strong experience as a Data Architect or Technical Architect working with large‑scale, real‑time data systems
Knowledge of news data standards such as NewsML‑G2 or similar structured content formats
Experience defining or implementing canonical data models
Familiarity with data governance, lineage, or data quality frameworks
Understanding search technologies (e.g., Elasticsearch or similar) and how data modeling impacts query performance
Experience working closely with senior product and engineering leaders