Description
LSEG is seeking a dynamic and hands-on Development Manager to lead a high-performing engineering team in delivering strategic services for our flagship LSEG Workspace platform.
Responsibilities:
- Drive all phases of the development lifecycle, including requirements gathering, architecture design, implementation, unit testing, and integration.
- Provide hands-on support to the team in activities such as writing code and performing code reviews, system design tasks.
- Partner with business, product, and engineering teams to define and refine requirements for strategic improvements to the LSEG Workspace services.
- Collaborate with DevOps to guarantee reliability, scalability, and robust monitoring of infrastructure, ensuring uninterrupted service.
- Articulate business and technical strategies to your team and ensure alignment with organizational goals.
- Provide regular updates to the Development Director on progress, architecture decisions, dependencies, and potential roadblocks.
- Mentor team members to enhance technical expertise, development practices, and ways of working.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
- Hands-on experience with a major cloud platform, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, and at least one back end programming language.
- Strong technical understanding of modern web technologies, Linux, containerisation, and the design and operation of critical, high-volume distributed systems.
- Experience with API gateways or web traffic management technologies would be beneficial.
- Consistent track record managing multiple projects and complex product development cycles in an Agile environment.
- Ability to define the technical vision and architecture for critical platform components, make informed engineering trade-offs, and lead teams from design through delivery.
- Hands-on team support with continued involvement in coding, application design, alongside people and delivery management responsibilities.
- AI mindset: Comfortable exploring and adopting AI‑enabled tools to improve productivity, decision‑making and ways of working.
- Customer-focused approach, skilled in identifying project opportunities, understanding customer needs, and translating them into clear, actionable requirements.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical decisions clearly and influence senior leaders, business partners.
- Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills with a solution-oriented attitude.
- Strong leadership, organisational, and interpersonal skills, with the emotional intelligence to build trust, develop people, and lead effectively through change.
Benefits:
- 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)
- Life insurance
- Pillar 3 Private Pension
- Meal Vouchers
- Flexible Benefits
- Bookster
- Volunteering Events