Senior Development Manager, DataScope Plus

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 Overview:
The DataScope suite of applications is part of our Pricing and Reference Service business. It is a respected application used in the wider finance industry where clients can do downloads of Pricing and Reference data in customized and standardized reports. The application has ~1200 external clients who consume financial data to analyse funds and the market position of global industry players.
In this role, you will be joining our Enterprise Data Solutions as a Senior Development Manager: serving the entire spectrum of data needs across asset classes, latency and delivery mechanisms including real-time data and news, reference, and legal entity data.
We are looking for someone who:
Is as comfortable with consulting with senior business managers on application requirements as they are with talking with developers. Well-used to delivered requirement functionality into application development plans, and supervising application development stages to ensure best practise and exceptional quality standards.
To ensure success as a Development Manager, you should exhibit extensive application development knowledge and experience in evaluating business needs. A top-notch application candidate will be someone whose expertise in application architecture and leadership skills..

Responsibilities:

• Collaborating with senior managers to determine business-specific application needs.
• Leading the application development team and supervising the design, testing, and modification stages in conjunction with the Head of Quality Assurance.
• Provides technical leadership to serve as point of escalation, review, and approval for key issues, significant projects, and decisions.
• Liaising with team members, management, and clients to ensure projects are completed to standard.
• Demonstrating application prototypes and integrating user feedback.
• Identifying risks and forming contingency plans as soon as possible.
• Keeping up to date with industry trends and developments.
• Being transparent with the team about challenges, failures, and successes.
• Improving technical solutions to make them more stable and maintainable.
• Contribute to the writing of documentation and release notes in conformance with company standards.
• Motivating staff and creating a space where they can ask questions and voice their concerns.

Required Skills:

• Significant experience with Java.
• Experience with cloud (AWS - preferred. AWS architecture including EC2, FSX, RDS etc.).
• Some experience with Oracle database skills.
• Modern development practices – scrum, CI/CD, BDD, automation, Infrastructure as Code (Ansible).
• 5+ years of experience leading technical teams in a Product Engineering capacity.
• Demonstrable experience of solutions design and delivery.
• Experience with Agile Project management or Highly Iterative Project Methodology experience.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills with a solution-oriented mindset.
• Strong leadership and organizational abilities.
• Excellent people skills and emotional intelligence.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field.

Nice to Have skills:

• Experience with financial market data and/or financial market products.
• Experience with .Net or C++

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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• Collaborating with senior managers to determine business-specific application needs.
• Leading the application development team and supervising the design, testing, and modification stages in conjunction with the Head of Quality Assurance.
• Provides technical leadership to serve as point of escalation, review, and approval for key issues, significant projects, and decisions.
• Liaising with team members, management, and clients to ensure projects are completed to standard.
• Demonstrating application prototypes and integrating user feedback.
• Identifying risks and forming contingency plans as soon as possible.
• Keeping up to date with industry trends and developments.
• Being transparent with the team about challenges, failures, and successes.
• Improving technical solutions to make them more stable and maintainable.
• Contribute to the writing of documentation and release notes in conformance with company standards.
• Motivating staff and creating a space where they can ask questions and voice their concerns