Technical Lead - Developer Platforms

About the role

LSEG is looking for a Technical Lead to join its Engineering Team within Engineering Excellence & Productivity (EXP). The role sits in Developer Platforms, whose mission is to enable rapid onboarding to LSEG developer tools, improve developer experience and delivery cadence, modernise tooling and processes, and keep development on the integrated platform secure and compliant. The position is based in London.

Key responsibilities

• Design, develop, modify and implement solutions to technology needs, including architecture, network systems and application infrastructure, and advise on design and implementation
• Ensure quality deliverables that meet or exceed specified standards and objectives
• Apply software engineering principles to build scalable, reliable solutions and fine-tune systems for performance, resilience and operability
• Produce clean, efficient code, review others' code, and act as subject matter expert in your domain
• Support the creation of solutions for Epics and their implementation tasks, and oversee design work and planning for user journeys
• Manage incidents, change requests and service requests, and act as second-line escalation point for major incidents
• Work with global teams across UK, US and APAC time zones and collaborate with senior internal stakeholders

Required profile

• Previous experience in project delivery, coordination or support roles
• Previous experience in software development, business and technical analysis, quality assurance, or emerging technology and governance
• Ability to work independently and in a team, communicate in English at all levels, and meet tight deadlines with minimal supervision
• Self-directed, proactive, customer-focused and able to partner with clients and colleagues
• Minimum knowledge of financial markets is desirable

Required skills

• Infrastructure as Code and microservices basics, and cloud basics across AWS, Azure and GCP (at least one)
• DevOps, CI/CD and DevSecOps; hands-on CI/CD pipelines (GitLab, Jenkins, GitHub) and security scanning (SonarQube, Semgrep, Trivy, etc.)
• Secrets management (Vault) and build/test/deploy automation (Maven, Gradle, Selenium, Ansible)
• Source control (GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket), artifact management (JFrog, Nexus) and containers (Kubernetes, Docker, Kaniko)
• At least one programming language (Java, JavaScript, C# or Python) and one scripting language (Terraform, Bash, Ansible)
• Agile methodology, trunk-based development, and familiarity with Gen AI tools such as GitHub Copilot and GitLab Duo