Lead Platform Engineer, Manager | London, UK

London Stock Exchange Group; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial markets infrastructure firm in London seeks a Lead Platform Engineer to drive the development of Azure cloud services. You will lead and mentor a team, ensuring robust platform management while actively engaging in hands-on development and implementation tasks. The role offers opportunities for growth in a dynamic environment, emphasizing collaboration and innovative cloud solutions.

Benefits

Healthcare

Retirement planning

Paid volunteering days

Wellbeing initiatives

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in cloud and hybrid Azure solutions.
• Deep knowledge of Azure Enterprise Scale Landing Zones.
• Experience with Azure administration and DevOps.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Azure Engineering team focusing on cloud product development.
• Engage in hands-on coding and team management.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams on platform automation.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Team Collaboration

Cloud Architecture

Agile Methodologies

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD Principles

Education

BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related STEM degree

Relevant Professional qualifications

Tools

Terraform

Azure DevOps

Gitlab

Job description

Lead Platform Engineer, Mgr - Cloud Productivity & Engineering (CPE)

Company Profile

LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is a world-leading financial markets infrastructure and data business. We are dedicated, open-access partners with a commitment to excellence in delivering services across Data & Analytics, Capital Markets, and Post Trade.

Backed by three hundred years of experience, innovative technologies, and a team of over 23,000 people in 70 countries, our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies, and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.

Role Profile

• In this role, you'll be joining our Azure Engineering team within Cloud Productivity & Engineering (CPE) as a Lead Platform Engineering, Manager. This team focuses on building, developing, and supporting our Azure cloud platform to accelerate the time-to-market of innovative finance products. In collaboration with Microsoft, we aim to transform how LSEG leverages the cloud platform.
• This is a hands-on team leadership role involving both leading the team and writing platform code/automation.
• Engage in designing, developing, and building complex cloud services and capabilities.
• Work alongside architects, developers, and other engineers to ensure efficient Azure self service automation capabilities across the platform.
• Active involvement in decision making areas such as networking, virtualization, identity, security, business continuity, disaster recovery and governance.

Tech Profile/Essential Skills

• 5 plus years' experience in designing, developing, and implementing cloud and hybrid Azure Platform solutions.
• Can demonstrate deep knowledge in setting up Azure Enterprise Scale Landing Zones and hands on experience with Microsoft's Cloud Adoption Framework.
• Prior experience in roles such as Azure administration, development, or Azure-focused DevOps .
• Previous experience leading and mentoring Cloud teams/Communities of Practice.
• Proven leadership skills, and capable of building and managing technical teams/comunities of practice.
• Familiarity with Azure cloud native components.
• 5 years' demonstrable experience with CI/CD pipelines.
• Proficiency in agile methodologies and CI/CD principles and practices.
• Proficiency in infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools like Terraform, Azure DevOps, and Gitlab.
• Adept at collaborating in diverse teams, with excellent communication skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• 5 years with Windows/Linux servers
• Sound understanding of financial markets and working within a product centric organisation.
• Adept at collaborating in diverse teams, with excellent communication skills.
• Sound understanding of financial markets.

Education and Professional Skills

• Relevant Professional qualifications.
• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related STEM degree.

Detailed Responsibilities

This is a hands-on team leadership role where you will spend around 50% of your time on team leadership activities, running stand-ups, directing the platform team and refining the product roadmap. The other 50% will be hands-on, writing code, making design decisions and implementing automation/changes within the cloud.

• Lead and guide platform engineers, encouraging excellence in Azure development, and DevOps processes.
• Enable application teams through a concierge and collaborative approach
• Engineer and further automate integration of external applications to enable customer end to end deployments.
• Collaborate with Azure Platform engineers, architects and product managers to refine the backlog and input into the roadmap
• Participate in Product related activities to meet operational needs.
• To ensure knowledge articles of all supported systems are continually updated.
• To provide a high level of customer service, whilst working under pressure.
• To follow and adhere to established Demand Management, Incident Management and Change Management procedures.

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.

Please take a moment to read this privacy notice carefully, as it describes what personal information London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) (we) may hold about you, what it's used for, and how it's obtained, your rights and how to contact us as a data subject .

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