Senior Manager of Engineering Obsolescence Control - London Stock Exchange Group

ZipRecruiter; City Of London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global financial markets provider is seeking a Governance Coordinator to manage obsolescence remediation programs. The role involves assessing end-of-life risks, generating insights for estate health, and collaborating with teams for sustainable technology solutions. Candidates should have experience in infrastructure engineering and excellent communication skills. This role emphasizes innovation and collaboration within a diverse work environment.

Benefits

Health care

Retirement planning

Paid volunteering days

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience in infrastructure engineering or architecture within a large-scale enterprise environment.
• Familiarity with IT asset management (ITAM), CMDBs, and automation tools (e.g., ServiceNow, Ansible, SCCM).
• Excellent problem-solving, communication and documentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Identify and assess end-of-life (EOL) risks across hardware, OS, middleware, network and platform components.
• Generate insights and dashboards to supervise estate health, obsolescence posture and remediation progress.
• Collaborate with product owners, platform teams, and vendor partners.

Job description

Overview

Job Description

ABOUT US: LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is a diversified global financial markets infrastructure and data business. We are dedicated to delivering services our customers expect, with an open-access model that provides flexibility, stability and trust. LSEG supports financial stability and growth worldwide for more than 300 years and operates across 70 countries with 25,000 employees. LSEG is headquartered in the United Kingdom.

OUR PEOPLE: We place people at the heart of what we do and foster an inclusive culture that enables growth, opportunity and collaboration. We seek individuals with diverse backgrounds and perspectives and encourage teamwork to drive innovation and meaningful solutions. We aim to create a rewarding experience for our people and customers and support development across a global organization.

ROLE SUMMARY: This role will coordinate the governance of the multiyear obsolescence remediation program across engineering teams. The role will also ensure governance for one or more streams of obsolescence remediation programs, lead all aspects of the evolution of strategic and tactical remediation initiatives, and support technology sustainability, operational resilience and compliance across the infrastructure estate. You will work closely with architecture, platform and delivery teams to keep components current, supported and aligned with strategic roadmaps, driving proactive modernization and reducing technical debt. The role requires strong engagement with CIOs and their teams, Program Directors, Engineering 1LOD, and 2LOD Risk teams. The program is phased; the first year focuses on executing the agreed scope while defining future scope and planning. This is a multiyear program requiring ongoing governance of the complete scope across years.

Responsibilities

• Obsolescence Management: Identify and assess end-of-life (EOL) risks across hardware, OS, middleware, network and platform components.
• Design and implement remediation strategies for legacy and unsupported technologies.
• Maintain and improve the obsolescence inventory and lifecycle roadmap in alignment with vendor support timelines and security standards.
• Lead all aspects of data and reporting accuracy.
• Report back to senior partners on program status.
• Define future scope aligned to planning and budgeting processes.
• Drive estate standardization, consolidation and optimization initiatives.
• Support rationalization and decommissioning programs to reduce footprint and cost.

• Data & Reporting: Generate insights and dashboards to supervise estate health, obsolescence posture and remediation progress.
• Support demand planning and asset lifecycle forecasting.

• Partner Collaboration: Collaborate with product owners, platform teams, and vendor partners. Influence technology decisions to support sustainability and reduce technical risk.

Qualifications

• Strategy, Technology Governance, Data Analysis, Information Management, Risk management and controls.
• Demonstrable experience in infrastructure engineering or architecture within a large-scale enterprise environment.
• Good understanding of hardware, OS, virtualization, storage, and middleware platforms (e.g., Windows Server, RHEL, VMware, Oracle, SQL Server).
• Hands-on experience with technology lifecycle management, obsolescence tracking, and remediation planning.
• Familiarity with IT asset management (ITAM), CMDBs, and automation tools (e.g., ServiceNow, Ansible, SCCM).
• Understanding of cloud infrastructure (Azure, AWS, or GCP) and hybrid integration strategies.
• Excellent problem-solving, communication and documentation skills.
• Validated ability to influence and inspire change across multi-functional teams, with experience leading through ambiguity and handling customers in sophisticated, matrixed environments.

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 values of Integrity, Partnership, Excellence and Change underpin our purpose and guide our decision making. We are a 25,000-person, 65-country organization that values individuality and supports a diverse workforce. We foster a collaborative and creative culture and are committed to sustainability, the green economy and inclusive economic opportunity.

LSEG offers tailored benefits and support, including health care, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We do not discriminate on basis of gender, race, religion, age, disability, sexual orientation, or any other basis protected by applicable law. We will accommodate applicants' and employees' practices and beliefs, and mental or physical needs as permitted by law.

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