ABOUT US:
LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is more than a diversified global financial markets infrastructure and data business. We are dedicated, open-access partners with a dedication to excellence in delivering the services our customers expect from us. With extensive experience, deep knowledge and worldwide presence across financial markets, we enable businesses and economies around the world to fund innovation, manage risk and create jobs. It’s how we’ve contributed to supporting the financial stability and growth of communities and economies globally for more than 300 years. Through a comprehensive suite of trusted financial market infrastructure services – and our open-access model – we provide the flexibility, stability and trust that enable our customers to pursue their ambitions with confidence and clarity.
LSEG is headquartered in the United Kingdom, with significant operations in 70 countries across EMEA, North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific. We employ 25,000 people globally, more than half located in Asia Pacific. LSEG’s ticker symbol is LSEG.
OUR PEOPLE:
People are at the heart of what we do and drive the success of our business. Our culture of connecting, creating opportunity and delivering excellence shape how we think, how we do things and how we help our people fulfil their potential. We embrace diversity and actively seek to attract individuals with unique backgrounds and perspectives. We break down barriers and encourage teamwork, enabling innovation and rapid development of solutions that make a difference. Our workplace generates an enriching and rewarding experience for our people and customers alike. Our vision is to build an inclusive culture in which everyone feels encouraged to fulfil their potential.
We know that real personal growth cannot be achieved by simply climbing a career ladder – which is why we encourage and enable a wealth of avenues and interesting opportunities for everyone to broaden and deepen their skills and expertise. As a global organisation spanning 70 countries and one rooted in a culture of growth, opportunity, diversity and innovation, LSEG is a place where everyone can grow, develop and fulfil your potential with meaningful careers.
ROLE SUMMARY:
We are seeking an Engineering Lead, Cloud Scaling to help lead our cloud scaling initiative, within our flagship product World-Check One. This is a great opportunity to join a business in an innovative and constantly evolving industry.
We need somebody able to understand system performance and scaling cloud applications, crafting for required performance, helping to diagnose performance problems in the architecture and in the code and understand how to craft systems for availability, performance, and scale.
We are looking for somebody that can help each individual team members to perform to their optimum ability, working closely with the Directors, Architects, Developers, and Product Managers to release high-quality software and deliver value to the business.
Our primary goal in World-Check One in the next two years will be to transform architecture into a truly Cloud-Native platform, this role requires a balance of keeping touch with new technologies and how they will solve our problems along with an awareness of what problems they may introduce to our ecosystem.
WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING:
- Lead the development of the World-Check One cloud-scaling initiatives and engineering teams.
- Ensure high levels of service, quality, security and performance are consistently met. As the need arises target debt in these areas and prioritise appropriately alongside feature delivery.
- Drive innovations to handle growing volumes that reduce cost and time to market.
- Drive innovation and differentiation to better address current and future needs.
- Drive service improvement for performance and availability and handle expectations around security, privacy, and data residency.
- Drive teams to deliver quality products on time, following Agile software development practices.
- Nurture a culture of quality, accountability, teamwork, continuous improvement, and data-driven decision making.
- Work with all business areas to target shared challenges and improve the efficiency of your engineering team.
WHAT YOU'LL BRING:
You are:
- A highly innovative individual with technical skills, excellent communication skills and global management experience
- An energetic team player who can be effective across a matrixed organization
- A leader by example who demonstrate consistent high standards and can empower your teams to do the same.
- Have a consistent track record of performance and be tenacious in your own development.
- Enjoy driving the creation of technical solutions that meet our customer needs and be at ease leading the delivery of making those solutions happen in collaboration with business unit technology teams and our own engineering teams.
- Take pride in delivering solutions and constantly looking for opportunities to innovate and improve.
- Understand the importance of building strong partnerships internally and externally and acting with integrity to uphold our cultural values.
You have:
- Degree level qualification, preferably in Computer Science or related field or equivalent.
- Proven experience leading large scale global systems and teams.
- Experience cloud technologies (predominately AWS but experience with Azure and GCP will be beneficial)
- Experience with the Java development stack.
- Experience building high performance scalable solutions.
- Experience leading geographically dispersed teams.
- Comfortable working in a multi-location multi time zone environment, with remote stakeholders and dependent teams.
- Strong communication and presentation skills including the ability to build relationships and optimally communicate across all management and organizational levels.
- Proven organizational skills, ability to multi-task, value and detail oriented with proven track record to deliver on commitments.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, sometimes stressful environment managing multiple projects with tight deadlines.
- Experience of working with ML/AI technologies would be beneficial.
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.
We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. This means that we do not discriminate on the basis of anyone’s race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. Conforming with applicable law, we can reasonably accommodate applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.
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