Job Description

LSEG's ambition is to be one of the world's greatest companies and best places to work. To achieve this, we are on a journey of building a product-led world class engineering function supporting our Corporate Websites and Digital Platforms. Our mission is to deliver customer-centric, scalable, and resilient solutions that power the LSEG's most critical and visible services.
As a Director of Engineering - Digital you will drive innovation across development, devops and automation and lead a 60+ team of multi-disciplined engineers across Tech Leads, Developers, Technical Product Managers, and QA specialists.
In this role, you will own the technical vision and design of our websites and digital platforms, balancing scalability, speed, and maintainability. A key part of your role will be championing continuous improvement across processes, tooling, security, accessibility, and performance.
You will partner closely with your peers in Product and UX and maintain strong relationships across the business, acting as a trusted advisor on platform capabilities, technical enablement, and developer experience.
The ideal candidate should have deep technical expertise across Content Management Platforms (CMS) and websites, a broad range of AWS services, with a strong focus on data integration, enterprise search, and secure web hosting.
What you'll be doing

• You will lead three teams: Developer Engineering (building API's, front and backend components for our websites, developer tooling), DevOps, and QA Engineering (QA strategy and execution).
• Drive the development and hosting of web applications on AWS, ensuring high availability, performance, and cost-efficiency.
• Evaluate technical architecture, trade-offs between delivery size and complexity, cost, risk, and stakeholder value, prioritising effectively.
• Champion a focus on software qualities security, stability, scalability, testability, operability etc.
• Implement security architectures, including WAF (Web Application Firewall) policies and CDN caching strategies (e.g., CloudFront).
• Introduce holistic testing strategies, automation and release management rigor and establish advanced performance engineering.
• As an engineering lead, the team will look to you to set a direction and drive through service improvements, features and change. You will work closely with your team mentoring and building their careers and will influence and work closely with wider principal engineers and architects in the organisation on our longer-term Engineering goals.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure our solutions meet security, compliance, and operational requirements.
• Develop knowledge and understanding of technologies in LSEG and utilise these in your own scope of work, and with colleagues as well as to create linkages
• Manage relationships with key partners, setting performance standards and managing the resolution of escalated service issues
• Our culture is part of what makes us a great place to work, and we encourage all our engineers to share new ideas, challenge existing practices and always be looking for opportunities to improve their teams and our wider community.

Experience

• You are a senior engineering leader directly responsible for teams larger than 50+ individuals.
• An ability to build and maintain highly effective relationships with senior product and engineering stakeholders.
• Extensive experience of developing and executing strategy and governance, including accountability, engagement, KPI metrics and planning and controlling budgets
• Extensive experience of leveraging deep and broad knowledge of emerging technology to promote innovation across the organisation to deliver services and solve business problems
• Modern engineering practices, agile practices, automation and deployment pipelines
• Experience in managing high performing teams and empowering them to deliver against the agreed strategy and roadmap
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with particular ability to communicate technical information to non-technical stakeholders and to listen to identified concerns and adapt accordingly
• Well-developed strategic thinking skills with strong business acumen

Technical Skills

• Content Management Systems such as AEM or other enterprise frameworks
• AWS Glue, Lambda, API Gateway, and Kafka for both real-time and batch data processing
• React.js with client-side rendering
• Backend API's written in Java, Python
• Infrastructure as a Code with experience in dev ops technologies (Terraform, Python, DataDog or equivalent).
• Software engineering with exposure to event high performance computing, event driven, big data analytics, machine learning
• SDLC - Continuous Integration & Delivery, Application Security, Quality Assurance

We might not be right for you if:

• You only want to focus on your to-do list; we're a high-performing team, we help each other to succeed.
• You value perfection over fast iteration and progress; at LSEG we learn and iterate as we go.
• You're looking to create but not build; this is an end-to-end role, you need to be comfortable owning your space, from ideation through to delivery and review.

Career Stage: Director
London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) Information:
Join us and be part of a team that values innovation, quality, and continuous improvement. If you're ready to take your career to the next level and make a significant impact, we'd love to hear from you.
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.
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.
You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas. We are committed to sustainability across our global business and we are proud to partner with our customers to help them meet their sustainability objectives. Our charity, the LSEG Foundation provides charitable grants to community groups that help people access economic opportunities and build a secure future with financial independence. Colleagues can get involved through fundraising and volunteering.
LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.
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