Engineering Manager

Key Responsibilities

The Engineering Manager is responsible for implementation of software development strategy for Capital Markets Shared Technology Products; guide and oversee the program of technology changes, re-platforming and re-hosting of the Market Operations Technology applications; provide technical direction to facilitate resolve of engineering challenges encountered during implementations.

Role requirements:

• Hire, manage and develop a diverse team to achieve strategic and operational objectives
• Lead, develop, support and maintain major projects and determine project approach, system scope, resource allocation and budget planning to meet complex business requirements
• Collaborate with Architects in designing technical solutions
• Provides leadership, coaching and development to the Market Operations Technology team to drive and maintain high performance
• Advocate and evangelize best practice engineering; Drives quality standards across the application suite, covering analysis, development and testing processes
• Add value through participation in peer code reviews, provide comments and suggestions
• Have familiarity with security and operational best practices
• Promoting and driving innovation by actively advocating new tools, processes and technical developments to drive continuous development
• Providing technical leadership across technology choices and leading and mentoring best practices
• Collaborating with team members on best practices, promoting effective cloud-based approaches and embracing agile methodologies to rapidly iterate solutions
• Driving innovation through rapid prototyping and iterative development
• Have expertise in a set of the team's domains, including the breadth of services, how they interact, and data flows between systems
• Able to work individually or with teams drawing on experience to recommend tooling and solutions aligning with organizational strategies. Influences organization wide testing strategy
• Guides teams in anticipation of future use cases and helps them make design decisions that minimize the cost of future changes
• Reviews and contributes to security designs based on the organization’s security strategy. Fosters a security first mindset across teams and leads by example. Has knowledge of key security technologies, protocols & techniques (e.g. TLS, OAuth, Encryption, Networks)
• Builds and fosters relationships with key internal and external stakeholders

• Be comfortable working in an environment where needs evolve and priorities change
• A passion for learning and innovation is critical
• Employ their multi-faceted skills to create imaginative solutions as well as coaching and nurturing excellence in others.
• Be on the lookout for chances to call your team on to greater things, both individually and as a unit.
• Interested in the evolution of the Equities, FX and Derivatives trading landscape.

• Provide hands-on technical and functional input to design, maintenance, build, integration, and testing of software components according to functional and technical specifications.
• Collaborate with the multiple business SMEs (Internal and External) to understand broad product requirements
• Make sure that business needs are being met by evaluating the ongoing effectiveness of current plans, programs, and initiatives
• Create a collaborative environment across geographically distributed teams for building industry leading products
• Establish a learning and innovation culture for constant improvement of software engineering processes and programs.
• Structure the team’s work in a way that is best suited to the product/service development and maximize efficiency (based on process, approaches and KPI review)
• Foster an environment that encourages teamwork based on motivation and inspiration.
• In-depth understanding of a range of software development lifecycles and their associated methodologies, specific experience in Agile is required; Understand the product and project management space with Agile methodologies.
• Familiarity with public cloud, on-prem virtualised and physical hosting mechanisms
• Hands-on development experience in Java, Spring Boot and microservices
• Detailed knowledge of database technologies
• Track record of delivering technically complex solutions in financial services, financial market infrastructure providers or closely related industries

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM discipline

Behaviour skills

• Customer focused
• Able to establish and maintain relationships at all levels across the organization.

Problem solving and Decision Making

• Able to anticipate and solve problems.
• Balances pragmatic delivery whilst keeping in mind strategic IT and business objective

      Result orientated

• Able to balance long-term corporate objectives with short-term project needs.
• Able to deliver against a plan
• Strong desire to drive change
• Establish a learning and innovation culture for constant improvement of software engineering processes and programs.

Effective Communication skills

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audience

Team working

• Able to work with peers and/or direct repots in a geographically diverse project team and with other departments.
• Good people management skills
• Foster an environment that encourages teamwork based on motivation and inspiration.

Career Stage:

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.

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