FX Trading Platform Development Lead

LSEG Business Services RM; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

LSEG is seeking a Development Manager to lead the Software Development and Quality Engineering teams responsible for our FX Exchange applications across FX Spot, Swaps and NDF. You will shape the roadmap with Product and ensure secure, resilient and scalable solutions.

As a senior People Leader, you will guide architecture, enable teams to own design, development, testing and production support, and foster an inclusive environment where engineers can grow and deliver their best work.

Responsibilities

• Lead the engineering organisation
• Lead Software Development and Quality Engineering teams with shared accountability for delivery and product quality.
• Set clear technical direction, engineering standards and delivery expectations.
• Coach engineers, support career development and build future technical and people leaders.
• Plan the skills, capacity, hiring and organisational structure needed to deliver the product roadmap.
• Create an inclusive environment that values different perspectives, open communication and continuous learning.
• Lead distributed teams and work effectively with external technology partners.
• Partner with Product
• Share accountability with Product for translating business strategy, customer needs and market opportunities into an achievable product roadmap.
• Assess technical feasibility, dependencies, delivery options and engineering investment before roadmap commitments are made.
• Balance functional delivery with resilience, security, regulatory obligations, technical debt and platform modernisation.
• Provide clear estimates, delivery choices and trade-offs so Product can make informed priority decisions.
• Use customer, operational and engineering data to measure outcomes and guide future investment.
• Own engineering delivery and quality
• Be accountable for delivery from requirements and design through development, testing, deployment and production operation.
• Establish a modern software development lifecycle based on automation, continuous integration and delivery, peer review, continuous testing, security, observability and operational readiness.
• Make quality a shared responsibility across Development and Quality Engineering.
• Lead functional, integration, performance, resilience and security testing for business-critical trading services.
• Improve release confidence by aut

Job description

LSEG is seeking a Development Manager to lead the Software Development and Quality Engineering teams responsible for our FX Exchange applications across FX Spot, Swaps and NDF. You will shape the roadmap with Product and ensure secure, resilient and scalable solutions.

As a senior People Leader, you will guide architecture, enable teams to own design, development, testing and production support, and foster an inclusive environment where engineers can grow and deliver their best work.