Software Engineering Team Lead

We are seeking a Software Engineering Team Lead to join our team at London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) in St. Louis.

Key Responsibilities

Engineering Leadership

You will lead and develop high-performing software engineering teams across multiple products and services. You will establish a culture of ownership, accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement. Your responsibilities will also include coaching, mentoring, and developing engineers at varying levels of experience, as well as supporting workforce planning, recruitment, succession planning, and talent development.

Delivery & Execution

You will own delivery outcomes for squad initiatives, ensuring commitments are met with quality and predictability. You will drive Agile and DevSecOps practices across the software development lifecycle, manage priorities, risks, dependencies, and technical debt alongside product and architecture partners, and ensure engineering teams deliver scalable, reliable, and secure solutions.

Technical Excellence

You will partner with Architects and Engineers to define technical roadmaps and modernization strategies. You will promote engineering standards including code quality, automation, testing, observability, and resilience. Your responsibilities will also include supporting cloud migration, platform modernization, application decomposition, and automation initiatives, and driving adoption of engineering efficiency tools, AI-assisted development capabilities, and automation frameworks where appropriate.

Operational Ownership

You will ensure operational readiness and supportability of services. You will lead incident management, problem resolution, root cause analysis, and continuous service improvement activities. Your responsibilities will also include maintaining high standards for reliability, availability, security, and compliance, and championing SRE and operational excellence practices.

Collaboration

You will collaborate with Product Managers, Business Stakeholders, Architects, QE, Operations, and Infrastructure teams. You will communicate progress, challenges, risks, and achievements to senior leadership, and balance customer needs, business priorities, and technical considerations to deliver optimal outcomes.

Required Skills & Experience

Leadership Experience

You will have demonstrated experience leading software engineering teams in a sophisticated enterprise environment. Experience managing technical leads or geographically distributed teams is preferred. You will have strong coaching, mentoring, and talent-development capabilities.

Technical Background

You will have a strong software engineering background with experience in large-scale distributed systems. You will have experience with modern software delivery practices including CI/CD, DevSecOps, and Agile methodologies. Knowledge of cloud platforms, containerized environments, and modern application architectures is required. Experience operating high-availability, critically meaningful technology platforms is also necessary.

Delivery & Operations

You will have a proven track record of delivering sophisticated technology initiatives. Experience managing production services and operational support environments is required. You will have a strong understanding of reliability, performance, scalability, and observability practices.

Communication

You will have excellent collaborator management and communication skills. You will be able to influence across technical and business organizations, and have strong written and verbal communication abilities.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in financial services, market data, exchange connectivity, or low-latency systems is preferred. Experience with real-time data collection, normalization, distribution, or trading-related platforms is also beneficial. Knowledge of cloud transformation and platform modernization programs, as well as familiarity with AI-assisted engineering, automation frameworks, and software delivery optimization, is desirable. Experience leading globally distributed engineering organizations is also an advantage.

What You'll Deliver

You will improve engineering delivery performance and predictability, greater operational resilience and service quality, accelerated platform modernization and cloud adoption, stronger engineering culture, capability, and talent development, increased automation, efficiency, and engineering productivity, and enhanced customer outcomes through reliable, scalable market data solutions.

Leadership Expectations

The successful candidate will embody LSEG's leadership principles by leading with accountability and ownership, building empowered, product-focused engineering teams, driving innovation while maintaining operational excellence, creating an inclusive, collaborative, and high-performance culture, and delivering measurable business and customer outcomes.

Benefits

LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days, and wellbeing initiatives.