Lead Engineer - Software Engineering

Data Platforms is an exciting collective of teams spanning product and engineering teams. LSEG Data Platforms provides a range of tools and solutions for leading, accessing, and distributing financial data. They offer various platforms, including the LSEG Data Platform, LSEG DataScope Select, and LSEG DataScope Warehouse. These platforms enable users to access both LSEG's own data and third-party data, with options for real-time, delayed, and historical data delivery.

As a Lead Engineer, you will be responsible for leading the design and development of sophisticated software systems in multiple areas, collaborating with multi-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features, and ensuring teams performance through regular code reviews. We will offer you the opportunity to mentor and give technical guidance to team members and participate in the full software development process, including requirements gathering, design, development, testing, and deployment.

Key Responsibilities:

Provide partnership and support to SME’s and Tech Leads to ensure delivery on commitments

· Lead and Provide Technical leadership to highly skilled software Engineers

· Develop tools and applications by producing clean and efficient code.

· Set and maintain high standards of coding.

· Ensure the quality and performance of the team's work through code reviews and testing

· Translate end user needs to requirements using a lightweight agile design led methodology.

· Lead design work and planning for user story board.

· Sets and completes the delivery of given tasks, delegating to the team where applicable.

· Builds unquestioning relationships with team and colleagues, collaborating closely with team.

· Connect with visibility and precision in a concise format.

· Working both independently and in partnership with colleagues within a team in an agile fashion.

· Analysis, design and implementation of sophisticated software solutions using customer focused design driven methodologies, delivered via public cloud.

· Own the migration of assets from AWS to Azure

Skills and experience:

· Strong proficiency in Java

· Experience in AWS Lambda, ECS, EC2, S3, SQS, SNS, Fargate, Cloudwatch, DynamoDB, Glue

· Experience in Terraform, Datadog, Gitlab and Devops.

· Experience with REST Api.

· Strong notions of security standard methodologies in AWS (e.g., using Secrets manager, IAM, Security Groups).

· Proficient in integrating, redefining, and consolidating data from various structured and unstructured data systems into a structure that is suitable for building analytics solutions.

· Ability to think strategically and operate in day-to-day delivery mode requirement of the role.

· Demonstrates ability to understand business requirements and the implications of those requirements on current and future roadmaps.

· Agile development processes (SCRUM and Kanban)

· Strong communication, presentation, documentation, and interpersonal skills

· Able to self-manage and work independently in a fast-paced environment with multifaceted requirements and priorities.

We are looking for intellectually curious people, passionate about the bigger picture of how technology industry is evolving, ready to ask difficult questions and deal with complicated scenarios! If you are creative and a problem solver, this is the place to be as will be supporting you to fast-forward your career! We enhance each employee’s potential through personal development through a wide range of learning tools both formal and informal.

LSEG is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider. Its purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.

Its purpose is the foundation on which its culture is built. Its values of Integrity, Partnership, Excellence and Change underpin its purpose and set the standard for everything it does, every day. They go to the heart of who it is and guide its 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.

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