Lead Data Architect - News Engineering

About the role

LSEG's News Engineering group is looking for a Lead News Data Architect to define and evolve the data architecture behind its real-time News platform, delivering richly structured and searchable news to customers worldwide in sub-second time. The role suits hands-on architects who want to be individual contributors and technical leaders, working at the intersection of data modeling, metadata standards and search technologies.

Key responsibilities

• 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.
• Partner with engineering teams to improve signal discoverability by normalising metadata and implementing industry standards.
• Ensure data architectures support observability and lineage while giving customers a simple experience with the News platform.
• Experiment pragmatically with new tools, libraries and approaches that improve reliability, performance or developer experience.

Required profile

• Strong experience as a Data Architect or Technical Architect with large-scale, real-time data systems.
• Deep expertise in data modeling and contract definition.
• Experience designing architectures for low-latency, high-throughput systems.
• Ability to work independently, lead through influence and communicate ideas clearly.
• Bonus points: knowledge of news data standards such as NewsML-G2, experience with canonical data models, data governance or lineage frameworks, and experience working closely with senior product and engineering leaders.

Required skills

• Streaming and event-driven architectures.
• Familiarity with cloud-native data platforms and distributed systems.
• Bonus: understanding of search technologies such as Elasticsearch and how data modeling affects query performance.

What we offer

• Hybrid work options and a balanced work-life environment.
• A career stage of Manager.
• Tailored benefits including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.