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From the employer's careers site First seen 28 Oct 2026

Senior Technical Lead - Real Time Platform

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Description

LSEG is seeking a Senior Technical Lead to help modernise and scale its real-time platform that powers global index calculation across equity, fixed income, and multi-asset markets.

The successful candidate will be a hands-on technical leader responsible for designing resilient, event-driven systems, shaping technical direction, and raising standards across the team.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Designing and building real-time, event-driven systems that calculate and distribute index data with low latency and high reliability.
  • Owning platform architecture and engineering quality, leading through hands-on delivery, code review, and clear technical direction.
  • Scaling and operating a cloud-native platform on AWS, ensuring resilience, observability, and performance under real market conditions.
  • Defining and evolving data models and pipelines for market and reference data, with a strong focus on accuracy, auditability, and control.
  • Driving engineering standards and modernisation, using AI-assisted tooling and automation to improve delivery speed without compromising quality.

The tech stack includes Java, C#, Python, SQL, OpenAPI, AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, S3, SQS, SNS, Aurora), Sybase ASE, Sybase IQ, Aurora Postgres, Terraform, AWS CLI, GitLab, and Agentic AI tooling.

The ideal candidate will have a strong software engineering background, experience designing and building distributed, event-driven systems, and proven ability to own system design and architecture.

LSEG offers a culture of connecting, creating opportunity, and delivering excellence, with opportunities for personal growth and development.

Skills

Required

Nice to have

  • Experience working on low-latency or real-time systems
  • Exposure to financial services, market data, or index products
  • Practical use of AI-assisted development tooling

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