Senior Platform Engineer - AI Team

London Stock Exchange Group; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic and innovative financial markets infrastructure provider as a Senior Platform Engineer. In this role, you will collaborate with a talented Azure Engineering team to design and implement cutting-edge AI tools that enhance the developer experience. Your work will involve mentoring junior engineers, optimizing Azure cloud platforms, and staying ahead of the latest advancements in AI technology. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to high-impact projects that drive innovation and sustainability in the financial sector. If you are passionate about technology and eager to make a difference, this role is perfect for you.

Benefits

Healthcare

Retirement Planning

Paid Volunteering Days

Wellbeing Initiatives

Qualifications

• Experience in designing and implementing Azure solutions.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD and agile methodologies.
• Proficiency in AI tools and cloud solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design and build AI tools to enhance developer experience.
• Mentor junior engineers on Azure best practices.
• Implement best practices for data quality and security.

Skills

Azure Development

DevOps Practices

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Python

Go

R

AI Workloads Implementation

Communication Skills

Education

Azure Solutions Architect Expert

Azure DevOps Engineer Expert

Azure AI Engineer Associate

Tools

Terraform

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Hugging Face

Job description

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 Senior Platform Engineer. In collaboration with Microsoft, this team focuses on building, developing, and supporting our Azure cloud platforms to accelerate the time-to-market of innovative finance products. As part of the AI Platform Engineering squad, you will implement, optimise and scale innovative AI workloads across LSEG.

• Design and build AI tools and products to improve developer experience.
• Active involvement in decision making areas such as networking, compute, security and monitoring.
• Perform POVs and POCs of the emerging AI/GenAI technologies to determine the business value they add to LSEG.
• Mentor and guide junior engineers, encouraging best practices in Azure administration, development, and DevOps processes.
• Work alongside architects, developers and other engineers to ensure efficient Azure AI services and models are designed and consumed aligned to LSEG's Enterprise Scale Landing Zone.
• Stay up to date with the latest advancements in AI to enable application teams to build innovative products.
• Implement best practices for data quality, security, and compliance.
• Ensure knowledge articles of all supported systems are continually updated.

Tech Profile/Essential Skills

• Experience in designing, developing, and implementing solutions in Azure.
• Strong understanding of DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, automated testing and agile methodologies.
• Proficiency in infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools like Terraform.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Previous roles involving Azure administration, Azure development, and/or DevOps processes.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Proactive incident management with Azure-based troubleshooting.
• Python / Go / R.
• Understanding of generative AI, LLMs, NLP, and machine learning frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch, Hugging Face, etc.).
• Hands on experience in developing and implementing AI and Data cloud solutions.

Education and Professional Skills

Relevant Professional qualifications, such as:

• Azure Solutions Architect Expert
• Azure DevOps Engineer Expert
• Azure AI Engineer Associate

What you'll get in return

• High-impact projects: We work on a variety of projects that drive innovation and enable LSEG to unlock the full potential of AI.
• Competitive benefits: We offer a strong compensation package, comprehensive benefits, and ongoing investment in career growth and skill development.
• Career progression: We provide opportunities for continuous learning and professional development in a work environment of dedicated, highly experienced teams.

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.

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