Director of Engineering, Web Application Development

London Stock Exchange Group; London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player seeks a Director of Engineering to lead web application development. This pivotal role involves collaborating with business functions to build and guide engineering teams, ensuring high-quality project delivery. The ideal candidate will possess extensive leadership experience and a deep understanding of both front-end and back-end technologies, including Angular, Java, and Python. Join a dynamic organization committed to innovation and sustainability, where your contributions will drive significant impact in the financial markets infrastructure. Embrace the opportunity to shape the future of technology in a collaborative and creative environment.

Benefits

Healthcare

Retirement Planning

Paid Volunteering Days

Wellbeing Initiatives

Qualifications

• Over 10 years of technology leadership experience leading global teams.
• Experience with multiple tech stacks, particularly Angular, Java, and Python.
• Strong understanding of AI/ML and AWS services.

Responsibilities

• Provide technology leadership and mentorship across software development.
• Design technical solutions for user interfaces and back-end interactions.
• Lead project delivery, ensuring alignment with business objectives.

Skills

Leadership and Team Management

Strategic Planning and Execution

Technical Skills

IT Strategy and Ownership

Quality Assurance and Review

Modernisation & Data Intensive Applications

Delivery Focus

Change Management

Industry Knowledge

Communication

Problem Solving

Customer Management

Third Party Management

Tools

Angular

Java

Python

SQL

AWS

GraphQL/Rest APIs

Multi-cloud solutions

Job description

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Director of Engineering, Web Application Development

Apply locations London, United Kingdom time type Full time posted on Posted Yesterday time left to apply End Date: June 28, 2025 (30+ days left to apply) job requisition id R0100512

Role Description

This is a senior leadership position in the FTSE Russell Technology team. You'll be responsible for partnering with various business functions in the Index Business to understand the vision and accordingly build and lead engineering teams. The selected candidate is encouraged to drive key initiatives that focus on providing the operational tooling involving range of business process that enable multiple business functions – index creation, management and reviews, product and research function. This role requires solid understanding of front-end and back-end architectures!

To be successful, the selected individual will need to provide strong technology leadership across all project delivery dimensions, ensuring a consistent high-quality approach in delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with the key FTSE Russell customers and provide overall technology engineering leadership, expertise, and mentorship to lead all aspects of a software development – Requirements, Business Analysis, Architecture, Planning & Execution

• Through strong engagement and demonstration of E2E Index lifecycle, design most appropriate technical solutions involving user interfaces, back-end interactions and process orchestrations

• Develop and implement roadmap for platforms to deliver initiatives concerning key index business functions

• Architect, design and coordinate the development of sophisticated front-end tools and the back-end services

• Lead a team of engineers that are skilled on different stacks – Angular, Java, Python and SQL.

• Implement multi-cloud solutions to ensure flexibility, scalability, and reliability of infrastructure across different cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure).

• Evaluate new technologies and industry trends to find opportunities for process improvement and innovation.

• Ensure compliance with industry standards, best practices, and security requirements.

• Drive multi-functional collaboration with business analysts, product managers, and other partners to ensure alignment between technology solutions and business objectives.

• Leads the project delivery (cost and timelines), Monitors project progress, supervise key performance metrics, and provide regular updates to senior management.

Skills

• Leadership and Team Management:Over 10 years of technology leadership experience. Directly lead up to 5 global engineering teams tasked with developing sophisticated UI solutions involving process orchestration and back-end interactions.

• Strategic Planning and Execution:Build and implement a comprehensive technology strategy that aligns with the division’s long-term goals

• Technical Skills:Experience of multiple tech stacks across front and back-end - mainly Angular, Java, Python with strong understanding of SQL. Deep insights and understanding of modern technologies AI/ML, strong experience of AWS Services and efficient API development using GraphQL/Rest APIs.

• IT Strategy and Ownership:Proven track record to think strategically, analyse sophisticated problems, and develop innovative solutions to drive business value.

• Quality Assurance and Review:Own the development and QA of the software produced. Design strategies for various test phases ensuring alignment to industry best practices and maintaining high standards of quality and reliability.

• Modernisation & Data Intensive Applications:Solid working knowledge in developing Data Intensive Applications through adoption of the latest technologies

• Delivery Focus:Demonstrates planning, organising, and managing resources and activities to achieve specified outcomes within a clearly defined timeframe and standards

• Change management:Uses a detailed approach to deal with change, transition or transformation of an organisation's goals, processes, or technologies, implementing strategies for effecting behavioural and cultural change, controlling change, and helping people to adapt to change.

• Industry knowledge:Demonstrates a depth of hands-on knowledge of the organisation’s industry and domains – Benchmarks and Indices

• Communication:Communicates with transparency and precision, presenting sophisticated / technical information in a concise format that is audience appropriate

• Problem solving:Defines a problem, generates solutions, and evaluates and identifies the best solution to overcome the problem

• Customer management:Builds positive relationships with internal and external team members to understand their drivers and negotiate positive outcomes

• Third party management:Manages the relationships with all external third parties ranging from Scaled Partners to Vendors

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.

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