Director of Engineering, Digital Market Infrastructure

at  LSEG London Stock Exchange Group

ABOUT US:

LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is more than a diversified global financial markets infrastructure and data business. We are dedicated, open-access partners with a dedication to excellence in delivering the services our customers expect from us. With extensive experience, deep knowledge and worldwide presence across financial markets, we enable businesses and economies around the world to fund innovation, manage risk and create jobs. It’s how we’ve contributed to supporting the financial stability and growth of communities and economies globally for more than 300 years. Through a comprehensive suite of trusted financial market infrastructure services – and our open-access model – we provide the flexibility, stability and trust that enable our customers to pursue their ambitions with confidence and clarity.
LSEG is headquartered in the United Kingdom, with significant operations in 70 countries across EMEA, North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific. We employ 25,000 people globally, more than half located in Asia Pacific. LSEG’s ticker symbol is LSEG.

ROLE PROFILE:

Digital Market Infrastructure (DMI) requires an experienced Director of Engineering to steer the scaling, formation 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, 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).

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING:

• 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
• Responsible for steering developer enablement, to continuously provide more effective tools, pipelines and infrastructure to ensure teams can maximise their productivity and output
• Ensuring discipline and alignment is fostered across the teams through 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
• Work closely with the Infrastructure (DevSecOps) Lead to ensure the DMI SDLC, infrastructure deployments & integrations are shaped, optimised, expanded and matured
• 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