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Fastmarkets is a global business with a history dating back to 1865 and is built on trust and deep market knowledge. It has more than 700 employees spread across global locations in the UK, US, China, India, Singapore, Brazil, Belgium, Bulgaria, Finland and beyond.\n The Role\nThis 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.\nYou 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.\nThis 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.\nPrincipal Accountabilities\nSolution Architecture & Technical Strategy\nOwn solution architecture and technical strategy for Product Engineering across its squads\nProvide technical direction on major projects, ensuring solutions are scalable, flexible, resilient, and secure\nProvide 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\nWork alongside programme managers and product owners to keep architectural decisions, delivery sequencing, and technical dependencies aligned\nAct as the technical escalation point for cross-squad architectural decisions\nCross-Organisation Standardisation & Governance\nDrive standardisation, governance, and specialisation practice across Product Engineering, Data & AI, and Cloud Engineering - working directly with the relevant groups in each organisation\nPartner with Cloud Engineering's architecture capability and Data & AI's platform architecture on cross-org technical decisions\nProvide 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\nAI-Enabled PDLC\nCo-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\nEnsure Product Engineering's domain-specific AI use cases are identified, prioritised, and addressed as part of the shared PDLC model\nChampion the use of AI-assisted development tools and practice across Product Engineering\nSpecialist Career Pathway\nOwn and define the specialist career pathway this role is designed to anchor\nEstablish the levels and capabilities that distinguish deep technical specialists, giving engineers a credible alternative to the people-management track\nKEY INTERFACES\nDirector of Engineering, Product Engineering\nHead of AI Enablement\nHead of Data Platform\nCloud Architect / Cloud Engineering\nProduct Engineering squads and leads\nProduct counterparts within Product Engineering\nProduct owners and programme / delivery managers\nThird-party delivery partners, vendors, and systems integrators\nEnterprise Architect\n 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.\nIf you are open-minded, curious, resilient, solutions-oriented and committed to promoting equality, then read on.\nKNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS\nWe'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.\nKey Experience / Qualifications\n12+ years in software engineering, including 5+ years operating at architecture or senior technical leadership level\nProven experience as a solution architect or technical architect, setting technical direction and design standards across multiple teams or squads\nStrong software architecture fundamentals: distributed systems, microservices, API design, service-oriented architecture, and cloud-native patterns (Fastmarkets runs primarily on Microsoft Azure)\nExperience 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\nExperience 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\nTrack record of taking AI/GenAI capabilities from prototype through to reliable, monitored production systems\nSolid understanding of agentic or multi-agent AI system design (orchestration patterns, tool use, agent coordination) and the operational realities of running them in production\nWorking knowledge of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) - ingestion, chunking, embeddings, vector search, and production retrieval pipelines\nTrack 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\nComfortable 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\nStrong communicator, able to bring multiple engineering teams and disciplines (Product Engineering, Data & AI, Cloud Engineering) toward shared technical direction\nPersonal Attributes\nDeeply technical, with genuine hands-on credibility - leads through technical judgement, not just process\nStrategic thinker who can translate broad technical direction into concrete, achievable standards and practice\nHighly collaborative; able to drive alignment across teams without formal authority over them\nComfortable operating with ambiguity - this is a newly created role and part of the job is helping to shape it\nResults-driven, with a focus on long-term technical health and career pathway impact, not just individual delivery\nWHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE (First 6 Months)\nBuilt 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\nPartnered 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\nStarted to shape - even if not yet finalised - the standards and governance approach for solution architecture across the three organisations\nIf you're excited about the role but your experience, skills or qualifications don't perfectly align, we encourage you to apply anyway.\n Our Values\nFastmarkets people come from all different walks of life. It’s this mix of brilliant personalities, experiences and insights that gives us that warm, open, and friendly culture you can feel as soon as you meet us. But however wonderfully different we all are, there are six things we all have in common - and they form our Fastmarkets values.\nCreated by our own employees to reflect some of the personal traits that Fastmarkets people have, our values are key to what makes our culture unique. They reflect who each of us are and they're embedded in everything we do. Our values are:\nMETRICS DRIVEN. We use insights to improve our customers’ experience and our business performance\nACCOUNTABLE. We are accountable to ourselves and those we work with: we keep our promises and get things done\nGROWTH MINDSET. This value enables us to be nimble to the changing realities and operate with a sense of urgency\nINCLUSIVE. We are inclusive and respectful, celebrating each of us and giving everyone a deep sense of belonging with the desire to bring their best self to work every day.\nCUSTOMER CENTRIC. We are customer-centric in all that we do\nCOLLABORATIVE. We are collaborative, able to work across teams and capitalise on the diversity of intellect, perspectives, and experiences.\nWe are committed to ensuring all candidates feel welcomed and supported. Should your application advance and you require accommodations for the interview process, please inform us so we can make the necessary arrangements.\nReward and benefits at Fastmarkets\nWe believe in fair pay and benefits that support you both inside and outside of work. Through Fastmarkets Rewards, you'll have access to a range of core benefits and a flexible allowance, giving you the freedom to tailor your package to suit your lifestyle, wellbeing and financial priorities. 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