For over 300 years, the Exchange has produced detailed market information for companies and investors. Technological innovations have transformed this service from a twice-weekly paper publication for the London business community to a continuous flow of electronic information to all the financial markets across the globe. This is the Regulatory News Service (RNS).
This team is responsible for providing the RNS suite of products.
Success Metrics
- Development will match or exceed expectations on pace and quality of delivery into production with minimal post deployment support issues or bugs
- Production support priorities will be maintained
- A proactive and balanced contribution to the overall improvement of the development processes, tools and solutions
- Feedback from a cross-section of stakeholders (PO’s, others in the Development team)
Objectives
- Delivery of front-end and back-end solutions in accordance with PO and Tech Lead priorities
- Designing and delivering solutions in accordance with team and organisational standards
- Collaborating with peers for code reviews, QA and progression through the SDLC
- Supporting diagnosis and resolution of production issues as needed
- Identifying and overcoming/working around obstacles, challenges and impediments to progress
- Contributing to the development of team standards and service improvements
Scope
- Participation in Sprint events – estimations, scrums, retrospectives, etc. in accordance with team standards
- Full lifecycle development (Agile)– from requirements analysis, estimation, design, coding, unit testing, documenting, peer reviews, and QA validation
- Full lifecycle workflow – using Jira, Gitlab/Bitbucket, Jenkins, etc in accordance with team standards
- Code management – branching, commits, merges in accordance with team standards
- Set up and management of personal development environment (AWS Workspace)
- Managing service improvement activities alongside development and support activities
- Coordination with a cross section of technology and business stakeholders as needed
- Other ad hoc duties that may be required to support the team mission and goals from time to time
- Note: release and change management events will often be scheduled outside of normal UK/RO working hours. The FS Devs operate to support these events from time to time.
Key Personal Traits
- Responsibility & accountability – taking ownership
- Taking initiative – working autonomously
- Big-picture perspective – being able to design complete and coherent solutions for large features/modules
- Creativity – problem solving and overcoming obstacles
- Quality & integrity – ensuring accuracy and completeness
- Tenacity – resilience in the face of challenges
- Data driven – applying quantification and qualification in decision making
- Compassion and collaboration – working with a broad range of stakeholders
Required Knowledge & Skills
Mandatory
- Business level proficiency in the English language – written and verbal
- Detailed knowledge of and experience with software development principles
- Experience with c#, .Net / .Net Core.
- Extensive experience and understanding of OO, MVC, REST and Web API.
- Extensive experience and understanding of HTML, JS, Typescript, Angular v8+.
- Good knowledge of SQL Server or other equivalent SQL skills (PostgreSQL knowledge is advantageous)
- Expert practitioner of agile methodologies, and clean code programming.
- A good working knowledge of git (via Gitlab and/or Bitbucket), source code control and branching/merging practices
Optional, but preferred
- Knowledge and experience designing and coding with AWS Lambda
- Knowledge and experience designing and coding with AWS API Gateway
- Knowledge of CI/CD practices
- Experience working with Jira, Jenkins & Nexus.
- Prior experience of working in large corporate enterprises
- Experience with IIS
- Experience and understanding of Unit testing framework.
- Experience and understanding of JS libraries, AWS.
- A good working knowledge of other AWS cloud services (DynamoDB, Redis, CloudFront, etc.
- Practitioner of test-driven development.
- Experience with Docker and, or other Container tooling (Kubernetes, Anthos, AWS ECTS)
Key responsibilities for this role are:
- Act as a lead contributor for technical solutions within an agile team
- Employ a range of techniques to analyze requirements and issues and evaluate multiple solutions against engineering, business & strategic criteria
- Identify and resolve barriers to business deliveries implementing solutions which iteratively add value
- Design solutions using common design patterns with a range of design tools & techniques
- Conduct peer reviews to ensure designs are fit for purpose, extensible and re-usable
- Design and build solutions which are secure and controlled
- Complete the design of applications and performing code analysis and overall improvement of style and usability
- Identify and execute improvements to code
- Develop a deep understanding of our users, their needs, behaviors, nice-to-haves, and bring that insight into the heart of all aspects of project work
- Communicate effectively with project stakeholder to report on progress against agreed deliverables and escalate any critical issues/blockers
- Currently the whole team works partly remotely. As a result, the role holder must currently have access to a suitable location with good internet access to perform this role when not in an office environment.
- The team will be present in the office for a minimum of 1 day per week, and all candidates must therefore be within a reasonable commuting distance.
- During the ramp-up period, presence in the office may be required with slightly greater frequency
Benefits:
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 maximise each employee’s potential through personal development through a wide range of learning tools both formal and informal. We believe in remunerating our people with competitive salaries and a range of attractive benefits such as:
- 25 days’ holiday per year
- 1 additional day off for your Birthday
- Annual wellness allowance
- Share Purchase Plan
- Medical Health Insurance
- Medical Subscription (preventive medical services)
- Dental Coverage
- Life insurance
- Pillar 3 Private Pension
- Meal Vouchers
- Flexible Benefits
- Bookster
- Volunteering Events
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.
