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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 commitment 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.
This is an exceptional opportunity to join a high impact engineering team responsible for developing and evolving the LOCP platform, a strategic technology enabling the migration of flagship real time systems onto an advanced, cutting-edge container platform designed for ultra-low latency, high throughput, and resilience.
You will be working at the forefront of platform engineering, contributing to the design, implementation, and evolution of enterprise scale infrastructure and platform capabilities that operate at extraordinary scale.
We are looking for engineers who thrive in fast moving and technically complex environments, enjoy solving difficult engineering challenges, and are passionate about building world class platform solutions. This role provides the opportunity to work with newer technologies while collaborating with highly skilled and supportive colleagues across multiple engineering teams.
Key Responsibilities
As a Lead Engineer, you will:
Platform Engineering & Delivery

• Lead the design, development, and evolution of LOCP platform capabilities across development, test, and production environments.
• Build, enhance, and maintain platform services using Infrastructure as Code, automation, and engineering best practices.
• Contribute to platform architecture decisions and technology roadmaps, ensuring solutions align with strategic objectives and engineering standards.

Reliability & Operational Excellence

• Champion Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles across the platform, driving improvements in reliability, availability, resilience, and scalability.
• Implement and improve service observability through metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, alerting, and operational tooling.
• Support incident analysis, root cause investigations, and continuous improvement activities to reduce operational risk and improve service quality.

Technical Leadership & Collaboration

• Act as a technical leader within the team, providing guidance, mentorship, and support to engineers across the platform organisation.
• Partner with architecture, product, security, infrastructure, and application teams to deliver platform capabilities aligned with business needs.
• Promote a culture of engineering excellence, collaboration, continuous learning, and innovation.

Ways of Working

• Operate effectively within agile and iterative delivery models.
• Manage multiple priorities in a dynamic and evolving environment.
• Drive high quality engineering standards including testing, documentation, peer review, and automation.
• Advocate for platform quality, reliability, supportability, and long-term maintainability.

Qualifications & Experience
Core Technical Skills (Primary Focus)
While candidates do not need deep expertise across every area, we are particularly interested in engineers who demonstrate advanced expertise in at least two or three of the following domains:

• Building and operating Kubernetes-based platforms in enterprise or large-scale production environments.
• Infrastructure as Code experience, particularly with Terraform.
• Experience applying Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles, including service reliability, automation, observability, incident management, and operational excellence.
• Experience designing and implementing observability solutions using metrics, logging, tracing, alerting, and dashboarding technologies.
• Strong software engineering skills with Go (Golang), including development of platform services, automation tooling, APIs, or operators.
• Solid Linux systems knowledge, including troubleshooting, performance analysis, and platform operations; experience with CI/CD pipelines, Git-based workflows, and modern software delivery practices.

Lead Engineers with expertise in multiple subject areas and a willingness to broaden their knowledge across the remaining areas will thrive in this role.
Soft Skills

• Strong communication skills with the ability to clearly explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical collaborators.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical discussions and influence engineering outcomes.
• Collaborative mindset with a passion for mentoring and knowledge sharing.
• Comfortable working within complex environments with evolving priorities and challenges.

Why This Role Is Exciting
You will be joining a team that is:

• Building and evolving strategic platform capabilities that support some of the world's most demanding and critical technology environments.
• Delivering world class engineering solutions that directly enable innovation across the wider organisation.
• Encouraging continuous learning, experimentation, and adoption of emerging technologies.
• Offering clear opportunities for technical growth, leadership development, and influence over the future direction of the LOCP platform.
• Fostering a highly supportive, collaborative, and inclusive engineering culture where ideas, curiosity, and innovation are valued.

If you are passionate about engineering and want to help build the next generation of enterprise platforms, this role offers an outstanding opportunity to make a significant impact while working alongside some of the industry's strongest engineering talent.
Join us and help shape world class platform solutions that power the future of global technology services.
Career Stage:
Manager
London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) Information:
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.
Our purpose is the foundation on which our culture is built. Our values of Integrity, Partnership, Excellence and Change underpin our purpose and set the standard for everything we do, every day. They go to the heart of who we are and guide our decision making and everyday actions.
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.
LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.
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