Senior Software Development Manager

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.

Role Summary:

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. This role offers the opportunity to shape the future of our technology ecosystem while encouraging a culture of excellence and innovation within your team.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• End-to-End Delivery: Drive all phases of the development lifecycle, including requirements gathering, architecture design, implementation, unit testing, and integration. Ensure high-quality deliverables aligned with the product roadmap. Managing iterative releases, and making informed decisions throughout the delivery process.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with business, product, and engineering teams to define and refine requirements for strategic improvements to the LSEG Workspace services.
• Operational Excellence: Collaborate with DevOps to guarantee reliability, scalability, and robust monitoring of infrastructure, ensuring uninterrupted service.
• Leadership & Communication: Articulate business and technical strategies to your team and ensure alignment with organizational goals.
• Reporting & Governance: Provide regular updates to the Development Director on progress, architecture decisions, dependencies, and potential roadblocks.
• Team Development: Mentor team members to enhance technical expertise, development practices, and ways of working. Participate in recruitment activities to build and strengthen the team.

What You’ll Bring:

• 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 programming language; Azure, Terraform, and Python experience would be advantageous.
• 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. Experience leading distributed, cross-functional teams to deliver software projects under timelines.

• Ability to define the technical vision and architecture for critical platform components, make informed engineering trade-offs, and lead teams from design through delivery.

• 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:

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

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.

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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