Description
As the Lead Engineer, you will collaborate with colleagues across the organisation to build and implement the technical strategy for a set of Engineering Products within our FX group.
You will be part of the Workflows Engineering team and play a crucial role in our organisation, addressing complex challenges and taking these to resolution.
This is a phenomenal opportunity for individuals who enjoy solving a variety of problems and who relish the chance to lead the resolution of exciting and new challenges on a regular basis.
Responsibilities:
- Act as a subject matter expert, advising on design, development, and implementation
- Deliver high-quality solutions through expert coding and tooling
- Own workload while contributing to an open, inclusive team culture
- Serve as a domain point of contact, with deep expertise and awareness of cross-domain dependencies
- Align work to technology/domain strategy and support its delivery; contribute to strategy where relevant
- Build understanding of the market and LSEG's commercial position
- Lead projects autonomously, delegating where needed and supporting team delivery
- Partner with architects to define and implement solutions
- Lead design and planning for Epics, breaking them into stories with Product and QA
- Apply and adapt engineering patterns to deliver robust solutions
- Build and maintain strong internal and external stakeholder relationships
- Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to varied audiences
- Continuously develop technical and industry expertise (e.g. certifications, qualifications)
Requirements:
- Strong programming skills in C++
- Experience in at least 3 of the following: REST / WebSocket, Kafka (event-driven messaging), SQL (Oracle / SQL Server), Redis, Azure PaaS (Event Hub, Azure SQL, Kubernetes, Azure Cache, etc.), Terraform / Helm or GitLab CI (or AWS equivalents)
- Consistent track record in software development and delivery technology and industry expertise through certifications, professional qualifications
- Experience or familiarity with financial messaging protocols - particularly FIX is desirable
Benefits:
- Healthcare
- Retirement planning
- Paid volunteering days
- Wellbeing initiatives