Director of Engineering

1 Month ago • All levels • Software Development & Engineering

Job Summary

Job Description

The Director of Engineering will lead the scaling and maturity of the DMI engineering organization, overseeing agile build and delivery. The ideal candidate should have experience in shaping effective, large, complex, and self-empowered team structures within emerging technology domains like DLT and web3. This role requires a people-centric leadership style to foster customer-obsessed values and strong client-product alignment. Responsibilities include guiding engineering team topologies, developing talent strategies, ensuring consensus-driven decision-making, standardizing processes, and providing development reporting transparency to the business. The role also involves shaping technology operations and evolving the engineering organization's culture to align with customer focus.
Must have:
  • Lead and evolve effective engineering organizations
  • Expertise in shaping software development lifecycles
  • Strong knowledge of programming (Java, C++, C#, Python, etc.)
  • Knowledge of cloud infrastructure and cloud-native solutions
  • Appreciation of blockchain and DLT technology (EVM/web3)
Good to have:
  • Experience navigating emerging technology domains
  • Commercial awareness of financial services and markets
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder interaction skills
  • Ability to foresee roadblocks and contribute innovative ideas
  • Interest in new technology and early-stage ideas
Perks:
  • Tailored benefits and support, including healthcare
  • Retirement planning
  • Paid volunteering days
  • Wellbeing initiatives

Job Details

Digital Market Infrastructure (DMI) requires an experienced Director of Engineering to steer the scaling and maturity building of the DMI engineering organisation.

Taking responsibility for all aspects DMI agile build and delivery, the ideal candidate should have strong experience shaping effective large & complex, self-empowered, multi-layered team topologies, with a strong appreciation for operating within a forward-thinking, emerging technology-centric domain (e.g. DLT, web3).

A thoughtful, people leadership approach is very important, with experience building customer-obsessed values, strong client-product alignment, with a solid foundational understand of modern agile approaches (e.g. flow metrics, value streams etc).

Role Responsibilities

• Shaping & guiding optimal & proven topologies of multi-disciplinary engineering teams within DMI
• Evolving and maintaining a strong talent strategy to recruit the best to shape DMI products and services
• Steering and evolving strongly egalitarian, consensus-driven decision-making across team, discipline and functional leads across DMI engineering to ensure a focus on continuous improvement preserves collective ownership, purpose and accountability
• Ensuring discipline and alignment is fostered across the teams through guiding standardisation, governance and the right balance of controls
• Shape and evolve the right proven processes, metrics and measures to ensure development reporting transparency can be provided to the business
• Guide the Infrastructure (DevSecOps) areas to ensure the DMI SDLC, infrastructure deployments & integrations are shaped, optimised, expanded and matured

• Steering and shaping the evolution of technology operations
• Shaping & evolve the cultural values and mindset of the engineering organisation, aligned to customer-obsession
• Staying abreast of best of breed thinking on proven modern approaches, methodologies and practises around agile & effective engineering delivery

Candidate Profile

• Computer science, software engineering or relevant technical background required
• Extensive professional experience in leading, shaping and evolving effective engineering organisations
• Good knowledge and experience navigating emerging technology domains (e.g. DLT, web3)
• Commercial awareness and knowledge of financial services, financial markets and market structure, as well as the unique challenges faced by regulated players in the financial sector
• Excellent communicator, with the ability to interact with stakeholders across business & technology at all levels, both internally and externally
• Strong empathy and a dedication to trust & purpose-building, in-pursuit of developing self-empowered teams
• Vision and creativity: Ability to foresee roadblocks, conceive intelligent solutions and contribute innovative ideas, as well as manage change and ambiguity effectively and confidently
• Innovation: An interest in new technology and the ability to conceptualise and work with early-stage ideas
• Leadership: Ability to lead ownership of deliverables and work with stakeholders across the business to progress and achieve the relevant goals to ensure development, deployment & delivery is successful


Technical Skills

• Strong experience leading engineering organisations
• Strong expertise shaping proven software development lifecycle approaches, practises and methodologies
• Strong knowledge of programming (e.g. Java, C++, C#, Python or similar)
• Strong knowledge of cloud infrastructure and cloud-native solution design
• Appreciation of blockchain and DLT technology (preferably EVM / web3)
• Solid understanding of information security in the cloud as well as modern DevSecOps practices
• Knowledge of modern agile approaches such as flow metrics and value streams

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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