Description
The Senior Development Manager – AI First Delivery & Transformation is accountable for the delivery, migration, modernisation, and transformation of one or more Corporate Actions products.
The role combines people leadership, technical leadership, product delivery accountability, and AI-first engineering practices to deliver secure, scalable, resilient, and commercially critical platforms.
The successful candidate will lead teams through complex transformation programmes while establishing and scaling AI-enabled software delivery, multi-agent engineering practices, and governed engineering control planes across the Software Development Lifecycle.
Technical I lead AI-first engineering teams delivering complex products, migrations, and transformation programmes. I bring deep expertise in multi-agent software delivery, engineering control planes, agent orchestration, context engineering, and AI-enabled SDLC practices.
I establish standards for agent-assisted requirements, architecture, development, testing, governance, security, and operations while ensuring human accountability remains clear for all material decisions.
Mandatory Experience
- Strong hands-on engineering background in either .NET/C# or Java enterprise development.
- Strong scripting and automation skills using PowerShell or Bash.
- Experience developing and operating containerised applications using Docker and modern cloud-native engineering practices.
- Experience leading engineering teams delivering distributed systems, APIs, event-driven architectures, and modern software platforms.
- Experience implementing AI-assisted or agent-enabled software delivery practices.
Desirable Experience
- React
- Python
- Go
- Rust
- C
- C++
- Azure
- AWS
- Kubernetes
- Platform Engineering
- AI orchestration frameworks, MCPs, agent governance, and model evaluation frameworks
Customer Focus I ensure engineering teams remain focused on customer outcomes, service quality, and business value. I use AI and automation to accelerate delivery, improve product quality, reduce operational friction, and modernise legacy platforms without compromising reliability or trust.
Risk Management I establish governance and control frameworks for AI-enabled engineering. I ensure agents, models, tools, and delivery workflows operate within defined security, compliance, operational resilience, and risk boundaries.
Leadership I lead high-performing engineering teams through product delivery, platform modernisation, cloud adoption, and large-scale transformation initiatives.
Analytical I use engineering, operational, delivery, and quality metrics to guide decisions and drive continuous improvement.
Adaptability I champion modern engineering practices and continuously evaluate emerging AI technologies, agent frameworks, cloud-native architectures, and software delivery models.
Communication I communicate complex technical, delivery, transformation, and AI-related concepts clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Key Accountabilities
- Own delivery outcomes for assigned Corporate Actions products and platforms.
- Lead major migration, modernisation, and transformation initiatives.
- Drive adoption of AI-first software engineering practices.
- Establish and govern multi-agent software delivery capabilities.
- Improve engineering productivity, quality, and delivery predictability.
- Ensure operational resilience, security, compliance, and service stability.
Success Measures The role will be considered successful when:
- Strategic transformation programmes are delivered successfully.
- Product roadmaps are delivered predictably and with high quality.
- Engineering productivity and automation maturity improve measurably.
- AI-enabled delivery capabilities are embedded across the SDLC.
- Operational risk, technical debt, and delivery friction are reduced.
- Platform reliability, resilience, and observability improve.
- Teams demonstrate strong engagement, capability growth, and retention.
- Stakeholders have confidence in engineering execution, governance, and delivery outcomes.
Benefits LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.