Platform Engineering Manager

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.
Role Description:

Post Trade Regulatory Reporting (PTRR) is the London Stock Exchange’s regulatory reporting, matching and reconciliation solution provider. PTRR customers include investment banks, hedge funds, brokers and other financial services firms. Post Trade Regulatory Reporting provides business solutions in the areas of:

• Regulatory reporting with MiFIR, EMIR, UKMIIR, G20 and other regimes
• Provision of reference data (especially financial instruments data)
• Analytics and Surveillance platforms that provides a suite of control frameworks

The Platform Engineering team develops, maintains and enhances the core PTRR platform that backs multiple regulated Tier 1 applications and solutions. The platform is hosted fully in Azure and uses a combination of SQL Server and Snowflake to deliver the processing of large datasets.
The role is for an experienced Senior Java Engineer who can help deliver new functionality, lead and mentor mid /entry level engineers. This opening requires a candidate who takes great pride in delivering excellence with excellent logical and technical skills and a can-do attitude combined with a helpful mentality, and a wish to play a critical role in forming and tacking an established platform on its next technology journey.
The culture of the PTRR team is dynamic, and requires each individual to adapt rapidly to change, contribute fully and think on their feet

Key Responsibilities:

• Demonstrates technical leadership with in-depth of knowledge and expertise in software development
• Collaborate on key design decisions for the platform build out to meet business’ goals.
• Lead the design & development of business facing initiatives lasting 3 - 6+ months.
• Managing and mentoring the skills growth of junior team members
• Own the delivery of business requirements through to test and production release.
• Coordinate and contribute hands-on to the technical work assigned to the team.

Required Skills:

Mandatory:

• Experienced core Java developer from a strong technical background with solid experience of delivering enterprise applications.
• SQL Server Database design and development, including stored procedures and functions.
• Backend architectures understanding including integration patterns
• Deployment of web applications and experience with continuous integration tools e.g GitLab and familiar with build and dependency management systems e.g. Maven
• Proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model.
• Good awareness of the design, development and SDLC considerations required for development of Financial Services market infrastructure applications
• Takes interest to develop knowledge in technology products and tools through on the job learning, certifications and projects.
• Collaborate closely with QA teams
• Providing L3 support for critical production issue.

Desirable skills and experience:

• Experience with Cloud Native technologies on at least one of the major cloud services providers (Azure or AWS)
• Snowflake
• Rest API design and development
• Kubernetes / microservices applications design

Behavioural Skills:

• Empower the staff to be accountable and responsible for their own actions and decisions.
• Drive SDLC standard methodologies
• Handles own workload and promotes an open and inclusive culture
• Builds strong relationships with their team and colleagues, collaborating closely with team

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.
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• Demonstrates technical leadership with in-depth of knowledge and expertise in software development
• Collaborate on key design decisions for the platform build out to meet business’ goals.
• Lead the design & development of business facing initiatives lasting 3 - 6+ months.
• Managing and mentoring the skills growth of junior team members
• Own the delivery of business requirements through to test and production release.
• Coordinate and contribute hands-on to the technical work assigned to the team