Senior News Engineering Manager

LSEG; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 110,321 - 183,918; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual Wellness Allowance

Flexible work options

Paid time-off

Comprehensive Medical, Dental, Vision

401(K) Savings Plan with Company match

Job summary

LSEG is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to shape the future of real-time news delivery. You will evolve our News platform, ensuring reliable outcomes and excellent operational performance. As a leader, you will coach and develop engineers, focusing on creating high-performing teams.

The role includes hands-on problem-solving with modern engineering practices. With a competitive salary of $147,500 – $245,900, this position supports your growth within a flexible, hybrid work environment.

Join LSEG and make a significant impact in delivering critical news globally!

Qualifications

• Solid technical background in backend or platform engineering.
• Experience managing teams delivering distributed, real-time, or high-availability systems.
• Familiarity with modern DevOps practices including CI/CD, containers, and cloud infrastructure.
• Strong communication skills about design decisions, risks, and tradeoffs.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for delivery, quality, reliability, and operational outcomes across one or more squads.
• Hire, onboard, and develop engineers, building high-performing, inclusive teams.
• Create an environment where operational responsibilities are sustainable and well-engineered.
• Guide implementation decisions and ensure performance and reliability standards are met.

Skills

Backend or platform engineering

Managing teams delivering distributed systems

Understanding of low-latency architectures

Familiarity with modern DevOps practices

Experience with AI-assisted development tools

Experience with news or content-driven systems

Strong communication skills

Job description

Senior Engineering Manager — News Engineering @ LSEG

Help us shape the future of real‑time news delivery and join a team powering the heartbeat of global information! LSEG’s News Engineering group is looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to evolve our News platform, delivering enriched, structured breaking news with metadata, entities, and context to customers worldwide in sub‑second time. If you're motivated by high‑performance systems, real‑world impact, and incorporating modern engineering practices in a dynamic and forward‑thinking environment — this is your opportunity.

This role is ideal for an experienced engineering manager who combines strong people leadership, hands‑on technical credibility, and sound execution judgment. You will partner closely with product, architecture, and other engineering leaders to deliver reliable outcomes while evolving a content‑ and data‑driven news platform sustainably.

As a senior engineering manager in the News team at LSEG, you will be accountable for delivery, quality, reliability, and operational outcomes across one or more News Engineering squads responsible for content enrichment and real‑time delivery. You’ll hire, onboard, and develop engineers at varying levels, building high‑performing, inclusive teams. Coach engineers through regular feedback, career development, and performance management. Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, learning, and continuous improvement. Create an environment where on‑call and operational responsibilities are sustainable and well‑engineered, not hero‑driven.

As a technical leader, you’ll be hands‑on in design and problem‑solving, guiding implementation decisions without being the primary implementer. Review and challenge designs to ensure performance, reliability, correctness, and operability standards are met, particularly for content processing and NLP‑driven enrichment systems. Support engineers in making pragmatic tradeoffs between speed, quality, and long‑term health. Ensure teams apply modern engineering practices to content‑centric systems, including automated testing of NLP pipelines, observability of data quality and model behavior, and CI/CD for both code and content processing. Guide effective, responsible use of AI‑assisted development and content intelligence tools to improve productivity and code quality.

Technical Skills We’re Looking For

• Solid technical background in backend or platform engineering (e.g. Java, Python, Linux environments)
• Experience managing teams delivering distributed, real‑time, or high‑availability systems
• Solid understanding of low‑latency architectures and operational considerations
• Familiarity with modern DevOps practices (CI/CD, containers, cloud infrastructure)
• Experience using and guiding teams in the adoption of AI‑assisted development tools (e.g. GitHub Copilot)
• Experience with news or content‑driven systems, including text processing, metadata enrichment, entity extraction, classification, or other applied NLP techniques
• Strong communication skills, especially around design decisions, risks, and tradeoffs

Why Join Us?

• Impact: Your work helps deliver critical news to financial professionals in real‑time.
• Growth: Learn from expert engineers and expand your skills across cloud, data, and resilient systems.
• Culture: We value curiosity over dogma, ownership over handoffs, and pragmatism over perfection. You’ll work in a globally distributed team that supports each other.
• Flexibility: Hybrid work options and a balanced work‑life environment.

Career Stage

Manager

Compensation & Benefits Information

LSEG is committed to offering competitive Compensation and Benefits. The anticipated base salary for this position is $147,500 – $245,900. Please note base salary ranges may vary by geographic location, city and state. In addition to our offered base salary, this role is eligible for our Annual Incentive Plan (AIP/”bonus plan”). Target AIP rates will be commensurate with role level and posted career stage. Individual salary will be reflective of job‑related knowledge, skills and equivalent experience. LSEG roles (excluding internships and part‑time roles of less than 20 hours per week) are typically eligible for inclusion in our LSEG Benefits program, which includes offerings of: Annual Wellness Allowance, Paid time‑off, Medical, Dental, Vision, Flex Spending & Health Savings Options, Prescription Drug Plan, 401(K) Savings Plan and Company match. LSEG’s Benefits plan also includes basic life insurance, disability benefits, emergency backup dependent care, adoption assistance commuter assistance, etc.

Equal Opportunity Employer

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. This means 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.