Director of Engineering, Risk Screening

at  LSEG London Stock Exchange Group

Job Description

OVERVIEW

We are seeking a Director to lead Risk Entity Screening, our flagship product that is aimed at protecting our customers from crime, corruption and other business risks. This is a very exciting opportunity to join a business in an innovative and constantly evolving industry. This role will partner with product and proposition management, and architecture to ensure alignment with the technical and business strategy and will provide thought leadership in the area of cloud, databases, AI/ML and analytics in order to evolve our Risk portfolio through technical advancement and innovation. The role will also partner with internal technology partners to ensure alignment with the platform vision and with the PMO and Finance teams to ensure alignment with corporate strategy and with communications and capability management to evangelize the Risk assets.
Job description

The goals of this role are:

• Lead development of the Risk Screening Products and services. Lead all propositions for Risk Screening in order to meet ongoing business needs.
• Ensure high levels of service, quality, security and performance are consistently met. Where necessary, target debt in these areas and prioritise appropriately alongside feature delivery.
• Drive innovations to manage growing volumes that reduce cost and TTM .
• Support business teams for client presentations and strategy updates
• Drive innovation and differentiation to better address current and future needs within the Risk domain.
• Drive organisational efficiencies in alignment with corporate strategies around headcount, location and leveraging of corporate assets.
• Take responsibility for vendor management engagement and governance, including cost controls, service excellence and long-term relationships.
• Drive continued program of service improvement for the performance and availability of Risk Screening products and manage changing expectations around security, privacy, and data residency.
• Drive teams to deliver quality products on time, following Agile software development practices.
• Proactively seek partnerships and collaborate with cross-functional product development teams to define software strategy and shared roadmaps.
• Foster a high-performance management team through coaching, engagement, and performance management.
• Nurture a culture of quality, accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and data-driven decision making.
• Constantly inspect and adapt processes and standards to meet customer demands.
• Work with all business areas to target shared pain points and maximise the efficiency of your engineering team.

QUALIFICATIONS

Knowledge, Skills, Experience and Attitude:

You are:

• A highly innovative individual with technical skills, excellent communication skills and global management experience
• An energetic team player who can be effective across a matrixed organization
• A leader by example who demonstrate consistent high standards and can empower your managers and teams to do the same.
• Enjoy working with many stakeholders and is great at juggling priorities to make the maximum impact for our customers.
• Have a strong track record of performance and be tenacious in your own development.
• Enjoy participating in both business and technical conversations that will help move our Risk products forward.
• Enjoy driving the creation of technical solutions that meet our customer needs and be at ease owning the delivery of making those solutions happen in collaboration with business unit technology teams and our own engineering teams.
• Take pride in delivering solutions and constantly looking for opportunities to innovate and improve.
• Understand the importance of building strong partnerships internally and externally and acting with integrity to uphold our cultural values.

You have:

• Degree level qualification, preferably in Computer Science or related field
• 15+ years of experience managing large scale global systems and teams.
• Experience with Java, and Cloud technologies
• Experience managing geographically dispersed teams, in a matrixed organization.
• Comfortable working in a multi-location multi time zone environment, with remote stake holders and dependent teams
• Experience working across multiple functional disciplines, including security, compliance, legal, and other engineering functional teams.
• Strong communication and presentation skills including the ability to build relationships and effectively communicate across all management and organizational levels.
• Proven organizational skills; Ability to multi-task; Value and detail oriented with demonstrated ability to deliver on commitments.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Accomplished at relationship building across business, technology, finance, and other key stakeholder domains.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, sometimes stressful environment managing multiple projects with strict deadlines.
• Demonstrated program management skills including planning and budgeting; working knowledge of project management methodology and software preferred but not required.
• Experience of working with ML/AI technologies would be beneficial.

Impressive benefits? Of course.
We support our colleagues’ health and wellbeing with inclusive benefits. So that’s support for physical, financial, mental and environmental health, paid time off to volunteer, consumer discounts & savings and so much more. All of which are tailored to your needs and may vary by location. For more details talk to your recruiter.
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• Lead development of the Risk Screening Products and services. Lead all propositions for Risk Screening in order to meet ongoing business needs.
• Ensure high levels of service, quality, security and performance are consistently met. Where necessary, target debt in these areas and prioritise appropriately alongside feature delivery.
• Drive innovations to manage growing volumes that reduce cost and TTM .
• Support business teams for client presentations and strategy updates
• Drive innovation and differentiation to better address current and future needs within the Risk domain.
• Drive organisational efficiencies in alignment with corporate strategies around headcount, location and leveraging of corporate assets.
• Take responsibility for vendor management engagement and governance, including cost controls, service excellence and long-term relationships.
• Drive continued program of service improvement for the performance and availability of Risk Screening products and manage changing expectations around security, privacy, and data residency.
• Drive teams to deliver quality products on time, following Agile software development practices.
• Proactively seek partnerships and collaborate with cross-functional product development teams to define software strategy and shared roadmaps.
• Foster a high-performance management team through coaching, engagement, and performance management.
• Nurture a culture of quality, accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and data-driven decision making.
• Constantly inspect and adapt processes and standards to meet customer demands.
• Work with all business areas to target shared pain points and maximise the efficiency of your engineering team