Group Director Engineering, Data Platforms

Job Description

LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is one of the world's leading providers of financial markets infrastructure and delivers financial data, analytics, news and index products to more than 40,000 customers in over 170 countries. We are dedicated, open-access partners with a dedication to excellence in delivering the services our customers expect from us.

We help organizations fund innovation, manage risk and create jobs by partnering with customers at every point in the trade lifecycle: from informing theirpre-trade decisions and executing trades to raising capital, clearing and optimization.

Backed by more than three centuries of experience, innovative technologies and a team of 25,000 people in over 60 countries, we are driving financialstability, empowering economies and enabling you to grow sustainably.

Role Description:

As a Group Director of Software Engineering, you'll design and implement functionalities, focusing on Data Engineering tasks. You'll be working with semi-structured data to ingest and distribute it on a Microsoft Fabric-based platform, modernizing data products and distribution channels. You'll drive thesoftware development lifecycle for continuous data delivery and lead the evaluation and adoption of emerging technologies.

Key Responsibilities:

Provide partnership and support to SME's and Tech Leads to ensure delivery on commitments

Build and maintain secure and compliant production data processing pipelines on Microsoft fabric and azure to ingest, land and transform data to ondata product.

Ensure that data pipelines and data stores are high-performing, efficient, organized, and reliable, given a set of business requirements and constraints.

Design, implement, monitor, and optimize data platforms to meet the data pipelines needs from functional and non-functional requirements

Responsible for data-related implementation tasks that include provisioning data storage services, ingesting streaming, and batch data, transformingdata, implementing security requirements, implementing data retention policies, identifying performance bottlenecks, implementing requiredmonitoring and telemetry and accessing external data sources.

Design and operationalize large scale enterprise data solutions and applications using one or more Azure data and analytics services.

Implement data solutions that use the following Azure services: , Lakehouse, Fabric, Azure Cosmos DB, , Azure Data Factory, Spark, andAzure Blob storage, Microsoft Purview etc.

Skills and experience:

Depending on seniority relevant experience in Data Platforms (in Financial Services industry), Azure's PaaS/SaaS offerings (Fabric, Synapse, Purview,ADF, Azure Data Lake Storage etc.)

Proven experience as a data engineer or similar role, with a focus on cloud distributed data processing platform for spark, and modern open table conceptlike delta/iceberg.

Strong experience with Azure: Synapse Analytics, Data Factory, Data Lake, Databricks, Microsoft Purview, Monitor, SQL Database, SQL ManagedInstance, Stream Analytics, Cosmos DB, Storage Services, ADLS, Azure Functions, Log Analytics, Serverless Architecture, ARM Templates.

Strong proficiency in Spark, SQL, and Python/scala/Java.

Experience in building Lakehouse architecture using open-source table formats like delta, parquet and tools like jupyter notebook.

Strong notions of security processes (e.g., using Azure Key Vault, IAM, RBAC, Monitor etc.).

Proficient in integrating, transforming, and consolidating data from various structured and unstructured data systems into a structure that is suitable forbuilding analytics solutions.

Understand the data through exploration, experience with processes related to data retention, validation, visualization, preparation, matching, fragmentation,segmentation, and enhancement.

Ability to think strategically and operate in day-to-day delivery mode requirement of the role.

Demonstrates ability to understand business requirements and the implications of those requirements on current and future roadmaps.

High level understanding of Azure DevOps

Agile development processes (SCRUM and Kanban)

Strong communication, presentation, documentation, and interpersonal skills

Able to self-manage and work independently in a fast-paced environment with dynamic requirements and priorities.

ABOUT US:

LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is more than a diversified global financial markets infrastructure and data business. LSEG is a systemically important part of the global financial system. It is the UK's second largest financial services business by market capitalisation, and in the top 10 of the FTSE 100.

A major financial information provider, with extensive experience, deep knowledge, and worldwide presence across financial markets, LSEG enables businesses and economies around the world to fund innovation, manage risk and create jobs. LSEG has 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 its open-access model – LSEG provides the flexibility, stability and trust that enable its customers to pursue their ambitions with confidence and clarity.

LSEG is headquartered in London, with significant operations in 70 countries across EMEA, North America, Latin America, and Asia Pacific. The Group employs 26,000 people globally, more than half located in Asia Pacific. LSEG's ticker symbol is LSEG.

The core values of the business are integrity, partnership, excellence, and change.

LSEG has demonstrated its successful strategy as shown in its strong financial performance. Post the Refinitiv acquisition, LSEG has shifted from a period of integration to transformation. The Group is a proven innovator with its market leading strategic partnership with Microsoft enabling next-gen data, analytics and cloud infrastructure solutions.

LSEG operates across the following divisions:

Data & Analytics: delivering data-driven insights, workflow and products to customers simply and flexibly so they can make better-informed decisions.

FTSE Russell: delivering category-defining indices across asset classes and investment objectives to create new possibilities for the global investment community.

Risk Intelligence: providing a comprehensive suite of screening, due diligence, verification and onboarding solutions, helping customers protect their businesses from a wide range of threats.

Markets: supporting customers across the end-to-end capital markets workflow, providing them with access to liquidity across multiple asset classes and regions; supporting their clearing and reporting obligations; and providing risk and balance sheet solutions.

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. You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas and are committed to sustainability across our global business. You will experience the critical role we have in helping to re-engineer the financial ecosystem to support and drive sustainable economic growth. Together, we are aiming to achieve this growth by accelerating the just transition to net zero, enabling growth of the green economy and creating inclusive economic opportunity.

LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.

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.

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