Technical Architect

The Role
This is a newly created role, established to give Product Engineering dedicated architectural leadership and to build a genuine technical specialist career pathway alongside Fastmarkets' existing management track.
You will own solution architecture and technical strategy for Product Engineering - providing technical direction across its squads, setting design standards, and ensuring solutions are built to be scalable, resilient, and secure. This includes architectural ownership of Product Engineering's major programmes and projects, where you may be embedded in delivery on a part-time or full-time basis depending on the scale, complexity, and risk of the work. Alongside this, you will hold shared accountability - in partnership with the Head of AI Enablement, Head of Data Platform, and Cloud Architect - for driving AI-enabled product development lifecycle (PDLC) practice across Product Engineering, Data & AI, and Cloud Engineering, fostering a cross-organisation community of best practice while ensuring Product Engineering's own domain-specific AI use cases are addressed.
This is a highly cross-functional role. You will work closely with engineering, data, cloud, and product teams to standardise, govern, and mature how Fastmarkets designs and delivers software - and you will help define what a technical specialist career path looks like at Fastmarkets, acting as a role model for that path yourself.
Principal Accountabilities
Solution Architecture & Technical Strategy
Own solution architecture and technical strategy for Product Engineering across its squads
Provide technical direction on major projects, ensuring solutions are scalable, flexible, resilient, and secure
Provide hands-on architectural leadership to major product programmes - embedding into a delivery team on a part-time or full-time basis where the scale, complexity, or risk of the work requires it
Work alongside programme managers and product owners to keep architectural decisions, delivery sequencing, and technical dependencies aligned
Act as the technical escalation point for cross-squad architectural decisions
Cross-Organisation Standardisation & Governance
Drive standardisation, governance, and specialisation practice across Product Engineering, Data & AI, and Cloud Engineering - working directly with the relevant groups in each organisation
Partner with Cloud Engineering's architecture capability and Data & AI's platform architecture on cross-org technical decisions
Provide technical oversight of third-party delivery partners, vendors, and systems integrators - reviewing their designs and implementation against Fastmarkets' architecture standards and holding them to those standards
AI-Enabled PDLC
Co-own, with the Head of AI Enablement, Head of Data Platform, and Cloud Architect, the community of best practice for AI-enabled PDLC across the three organisations
Ensure Product Engineering's domain-specific AI use cases are identified, prioritised, and addressed as part of the shared PDLC model
Champion the use of AI-assisted development tools and practice across Product Engineering
Specialist Career Pathway
Own and define the specialist career pathway this role is designed to anchor
Establish the levels and capabilities that distinguish deep technical specialists, giving engineers a credible alternative to the people-management track
KEY INTERFACES
Director of Engineering, Product Engineering
Head of AI Enablement
Head of Data Platform
Cloud Architect / Cloud Engineering
Product Engineering squads and leads
Product counterparts within Product Engineering
Product owners and programme / delivery managers
Third-party delivery partners, vendors, and systems integrators
Enterprise Architect
We recruit talented, dynamic people with diverse backgrounds and experiences, all united by a belief in our mission to provide the world’s leading and most trusted price reporting, events, and intelligence service for the markets we serve. We’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a fully inclusive workplace, where everyone feels able to participate and contribute meaningfully.
If you are open-minded, curious, resilient, solutions-oriented and committed to promoting equality, then read on.
KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS
We're looking for a technical architect who combines strong direction-setting and cross-team leadership with genuine technical credibility, across both traditional solution architecture and AI-enabled delivery. This role is weighted toward architecture, standards, and driving alignment across teams rather than full-time hands-on building - but you should have enough hands-on experience to set credible standards, review architecture critically, and know the difference between what sounds good in a slide and what actually survives production.
Key Experience / Qualifications
12+ years in software engineering, including 5+ years operating at architecture or senior technical leadership level
Proven experience as a solution architect or technical architect, setting technical direction and design standards across multiple teams or squads
Strong software architecture fundamentals: distributed systems, microservices, API design, service-oriented architecture, and cloud-native patterns (Fastmarkets runs primarily on Microsoft Azure)
Experience defining or contributing to technical standards, governance, and engineering best practice across multiple teams - able to drive alignment without direct authority over every team involved
Experience acting as architect on large, multi-team product programmes - working with programme managers and product owners, and holding third-party suppliers or systems integrators to defined architecture standards
Track record of taking AI/GenAI capabilities from prototype through to reliable, monitored production systems
Solid understanding of agentic or multi-agent AI system design (orchestration patterns, tool use, agent coordination) and the operational realities of running them in production
Working knowledge of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) - ingestion, chunking, embeddings, vector search, and production retrieval pipelines
Track record of leading or significantly influencing an AI-enabled product development lifecycle (PDLC) - embedding AI into how software gets built, not just what gets built
Comfortable operating at both ends of the spectrum: credible in architecture conversations with senior technical and business stakeholders, and able to engage in technical detail when needed
Strong communicator, able to bring multiple engineering teams and disciplines (Product Engineering, Data & AI, Cloud Engineering) toward shared technical direction
Personal Attributes
Deeply technical, with genuine hands-on credibility - leads through technical judgement, not just process
Strategic thinker who can translate broad technical direction into concrete, achievable standards and practice
Highly collaborative; able to drive alignment across teams without formal authority over them
Comfortable operating with ambiguity - this is a newly created role and part of the job is helping to shape it
Results-driven, with a focus on long-term technical health and career pathway impact, not just individual delivery
WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE (First 6 Months)
Built genuine working relationships and credibility across Product Engineering, Data & AI, and Cloud Engineering, as well as with Product counterparts - recognised as a trusted technical voice by peers and teams across all of these groups, not just your own
Partnered with the Head of AI Enablement, Head of Data Platform, and Cloud Architect to establish the shared community of best practice for AI-enabled PDLC, with the model tested against real work in at least one domain-specific use case
Started to shape - even if not yet finalised - the standards and governance approach for solution architecture across the three organisations
If you're excited about the role but your experience, skills or qualifications don't perfectly align, we encourage you to apply anyway.

Employment type
Full-time

Work arrangement
Hybrid