Senior Engineer

Senior Engineer

Company Profile

LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is a world-leading financial markets infrastructure and data business.  We are dedicated, open-access partners with a commitment to excellence in delivering services across Data & Analytics, Capital Markets, and Post Trade. 

Backed by three hundred years of experience, innovative technologies, and a team of over 23,000 people in 70 countries, our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies, and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.

Role Profile

Are you passionate about making developers' lives easier, faster, and more fulfilling? Do you dream of streamlining workflows, squashing bugs, and fuelling innovation? We're on a mission to supercharge our engineering culture by building a world-class Developer community that's the envy of the industry.

We are looking for a Senior Engineer to join our team within the wider Engineering Excellence & Productivity (EXP) group. One of the principal aims of our team is to bring new software or new features to production as quickly as possible.

We are responsible for enhancing the productivity, efficiency, and satisfaction of our development teams by designing and improving tooling, workflows, and processes. You will work closely with engineers across multiple teams to identify problems and bottlenecks, streamline development environments, and enable faster delivery of high-quality software.

As a Senior Engineer, you are expected to have a deep understanding of software development processes, a passion for automation, and a focus on enabling developers to work better and faster.

Tech Profile

• DevOps Principles including CI/CD
• Developer Tools (ex: GitLab, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes)
• General understanding of Databases
• Awareness of governance and regulatory considerations
• Previous experience in a Project delivery, Coordination or Support role
• Previous experience of Software Development, Business and Technical Analysis, Quality Assurance, and / or Emerging Technology and Governance
• PPM Tools (ex: Clarity, JIRA, Asana)

 Preferred Skills and Experience

• Hands on Experience with professional software engineering, with a focus on improving developer workflows and productivity.
• Previous hand-on experience:  Software Development, Business and Technical Analysis, Quality Assurance, Support Role and / or Emerging Technology and Governance.
• Languages & Frameworks: Strong programming skills in languages such as JavaScript, C, C++, Python, Java, Terraform, Ruby or others. Experience with version control (e.g., Git), CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, CircleCI), and build systems.
• Cloud & Infrastructure: Experience with cloud providers (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure) and infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform, Ansible).
• Automation: Expertise in automating software development processes and optimizing development environments.
• Tooling: Familiarity with modern development tools and practices, such as containers (Docker), Padman, Kubernetes, Microservices, Dev IDE's (Visual Studio Code, JetBrains, etc), Node.js.
• General understanding: Databases, DevOps Principles, PPM Tools (ex: Clarity, JIRA, Asana), Agile Principles including any hand on experience, minimum knowledge and understanding of financial markets are desirable.
• Problem-Solving: Strong analytical skills and ability to investigate and solve complex issues.
• Collaboration & Communication: Excellent communication skills and ability to work cross-functionally with teams in a fast-paced, collaborative environment, excellent English reading/writing capability required.
• Ownership: Be driven and committed to the goals and objectives of the team and organization, ability to manage own work and multitask to meet tight deadlines without losing sight of priorities under minimum supervision. 
• Adaptability: Ability to quickly adapt to new tools and technologies as the company grows and evolves.

KEY COMPETENCIES

• Deploys agile best practices as appropriate throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Analyses infrastructure requirements and designs the architecture for central or distributed processing to meet user requirements.
• Creates, applies and implements technologies to deliver and produce services with minimal human intervention, to improve the efficiency, reliability and speed tasks.
• Develops, tests and maintains software applications and related programs and procedures; demonstrates creativity and innovation using available software development tools and following design requirements.
• Creates and maintains documentation to describe the system and its parts, including requirements documents, design decisions, architecture descriptions, program source code and support documentation.
• Possesses depth of technical expertise, knowledge of technologies and design, development and implementation of technologies.
• Possesses knowledge of features and facilities for integration, and communication among applications, databases and technology platforms to bring together different components and form a fully functional solution to a business problem.
• Shows ability to come up with new ideas and novel approaches to problems and establish solutions through different methods.
• Partners with clients and resolves issues by diagnosing problems, determining possible resolutions and implementing effective solutions​​
• Defines a problem, generates solutions, and evaluates and identifies the best solution to overcome the problem.
• Interacts well with others, quickly establishing rapport building positive relationships and networks.
• Ensures a product/service meets or exceeds specified standards and objectives to achieve desired level of quality
• Customer-Centric Development:Ability to align technical solutions with business objectives by delivering code, tools, and workflows that cater to the needs of both developers and end-users.

Education and Professional Skills

• Curious about new technologies and tools, creative thinking and initiative taking.
• Solid English reading/writing capability required.
• Strong communication & collaboration skills.
• Commitment to DevOps culture
• Familiarity with real world applications of Agile principles

Detailed Responsibilities

• Developer Productivity Optimization: Identify and resolve developer problems related to code, build, test, and deployment workflows.
• Incident Response and Debugging / L2 Support: Assist teams in quickly diagnosing and resolving issues related to development environment, tools or pipelines, operating as proxy owner for tools to help triage the issues.
• Developer Desktop Tools and Services: Own software development tools approval by testing, evaluating, investigating behaviours, raise and follow-up with vendors
• Tooling & Automation: Develop and maintain internal tools and services that help automate repetitive tasks and improve development workflows (e.g., CI/CD pipelines, development environments, etc.).
• Collaboration: Work closely with product teams, DevOps, and platform engineers to deliver the best tools and practices for development workflows.
• Documentation & Education: Create documents, guidelines, and best practices for internal tools, processes, and workflows. Conduct training sessions for developers to improve their productivity and adoption of new tools.
• Developer Onboarding: Streamline the developer onboarding process by building easy-to-use, self-service development environments.
• Performance and Scalability: Ensure developer tools and systems scale efficiently with team growth and increased codebase complexity.
• Ensure quality deliverables to ensure software meets or exceeds specified standards and objectives.
• Apply software engineering principles and practices to design, build, and run solutions which are scalable and reliable.
• Demonstrates significant knowledge of a single or multiple technologies and advises on design, development and implementation
• Advances tools and applications by producing clean and efficient code and reviews others' code when required
• Handles own workload and promotes an inclusive and open culture
• Understands the tech strategy and culture, and how they impact own work as well as adjacent teams
• Oversees the design work and planning for user journeys ensuring the achieve the desired objectives
• Develops understanding of LSEG's commercial direction and how technology is forming a part of this
• Completes the delivery of given tasks with some guidance and oversight
• Builds strong relationships with senior internal stakeholders, growing network and collaborating with own team and colleagues in other domains. Communicates complex information clearly to relevant audiences
• Must interact with global teams in time zones spanning EMEA, AMERS, APAC
• Participate in Project related activities to meet operational needs.