Senior Engineering Lead

About Us:
LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is more than a diversified global financial markets infrastructure and data business. We are dedicated, open-access partners with a dedication to excellence in delivering the services our customers expect from us. With extensive experience, deep knowledge and worldwide presence across financial markets, we enable businesses and economies around the world to fund innovation, manage risk and create jobs. It's how we've contributed to supporting the financial stability and growth of communities and economies globally for more than 300 years. Through a comprehensive suite of trusted financial market infrastructure services – and our open-access model – we provide the flexibility, stability and trust that enable our customers to pursue their ambitions with confidence and clarity.

LSEG is headquartered in the United Kingdom, with significant operations in 70 countries across EMEA, North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific. We employ 25,000 people globally, more than half located in Asia Pacific.

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Role Summary:
Join our team and help us build the future of financial services on blockchain technology. This is a unique opportunity to work on cutting-edge products and services that will transform the way we interact with financial markets.

DMI (Digital Markets Infrastructure) is an ambitious project: large-scale, complex and uses a range of blockchain architecture patterns, with numerous stakeholders (internal and external) and use cases. The work is focused on the tokenization of financial instruments, i.e. as digital assets. We seek candidates with an interest in the financial markets with experience of working on large projects. This is a chance to work on an innovative, intellectually challenging project backed by the influential reach of London Stock Exchange Group.

The ideal candidate will play a crucial role in developing, enhancing, and ensuring the robustness of our software solutions, especially those that are critical for LSEG Capital Markets' strategic goals.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING:

• Lead the design, development, and optimization of software solutions using modern technologies.
• Collaborate with product teams and architects to deliver scalable and reliable software.
• Play a pivotal role in the product development life cycle, ensuring that software solutions are robust and scalable.
• Engage with cross-functional teams, central technology functions, and wider stakeholders to ensure software design goals are met.
• Ensure alignment of software solutions with LSEG's technology and business goals.
• Maintain up-to-date expert knowledge of relevant technologies and trends.
• Mentor, coach, and develop engineers at different career stages, fostering both technical and professional growth.

WHAT YOU'LL BRING:

• Proven experience in software development as a senior engineering lead.
• Expert level programming skills in Java, Spring Boot, Spring JDBC, Spring Data, Hibernate/JPA
• Experience with microservices and event-based architecture.
• Hands-on experience with Cloud (Azure, AWS or similar), particularly with deploying, managing, and scaling back-end application.
• Experience pairing with QA Automation (SDET) engineers to help reduce technical debt and contribute to building a maintainable E2E automation suite.
• Commercial awareness and knowledge of financial services (desirable).
• Experience with DLT (desirable)
• Excellent communicator, able to interact with partners at all levels.
• Vision and creativity to foresee challenges and provide innovative solutions.
• Interest in new technology and ability to work with early-stage ideas.

Benefits
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We are looking for intellectually curious people, passionate about the bigger picture of how technology industry is evolving, ready to ask difficult questions and deal with complicated scenarios If you are creative and a problem solver, this is the place to be as will be supporting you to fast-forward your career

We maximise each employee's potential through personal development through a wide range of learning tools both formal and informal. We believe in remunerating our people with competitive salaries and a range of attractive benefits such as:

• 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
• All LSEG colleagues with at least one year's continuous service, who become parents, are now entitled to at least 26 weeks' paid leave, and the option to return to work on a phased basis, in relation with specific company's policy and guidelines

Join us and be part of a team that values innovation, quality, and continuous improvement. If you're ready to take your career to the next level and make a significant impact, we'd love to hear from you.

LSEG is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider. Our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.

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Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 65 countries. However, we will value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce.

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. This means that we do not discriminate on the basis of anyone's race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. Conforming with applicable law, we can reasonably accommodate applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.

You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas. We are committed to sustainability across our global business and we are proud to partner with our customers to help them meet their sustainability objectives. Our charity, the LSEG Foundation provides charitable grants to community groups that help people access economic opportunities and build a secure future with financial independence. Colleagues can get involved through fundraising and volunteering.

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