Americas Collections Development Manager

LSEG Business Services RM; Creve Coeur (MO); On-site; USD 170,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) is seeking an Engineering Leader to drive high-performing software teams across multiple products. The role focuses on ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement while coaching engineers at varying levels of experience.

You will partner with architects and product managers to deliver scalable, reliable market data platforms, promoting CI/CD, cloud modernization, and automation across the organization.

Qualifications

• Led software engineering teams in a sophisticated enterprise environment.
• Experience managing technical leads or distributed teams is preferred.
• Strong coaching, mentoring, and talent development capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop high-performing software engineering teams across products and services.
• Establish a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Coach, mentor, and develop engineers at varying levels of experience.
• Support workforce planning, recruitment, succession planning, and talent development.
• Drive Agile and DevSecOps practices across the SDLC.
• Promote engineering standards including code quality, testing, observability, and resilience.

Skills

Leadership

Distributed systems

CI/CD

Cloud platforms

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Cloud platforms

Job description

Key Responsibilities

Engineering Leadership

• Lead and develop high-performing software engineering teams across multiple products and services.
• Establish a culture of ownership, accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Coach, mentor, and develop engineers at varying levels of experience.
• Support workforce planning, recruitment, succession planning, and talent development.

Delivery & Execution

• We own delivery outcomes for squad initiatives, ensuring commitments are met with quality and predictability.
• Drive Agile and DevSecOps practices across the software development lifecycle.
• Manage priorities, risks, dependencies, and technical debt alongside product and architecture partners.
• Ensure engineering teams deliver scalable, reliable, and secure solutions.

Technical Excellence

• Partner with Architects and Engineers to define technical roadmaps and modernization strategies.
• Promote engineering standards including code quality, automation, testing, observability, and resilience.
• Support cloud migration, platform modernization, application decomposition, and automation initiatives.
• Drive adoption of engineering efficiency tools, AI-assisted development capabilities, and automation frameworks where appropriate.

Operational Ownership

• Ensure operational readiness and supportability of services.
• Lead incident management, problem resolution, root cause analysis, and continuous service improvement activities.
• Maintain high standards for reliability, availability, security, and compliance.
• Champion SRE and operational excellence practices.

Collaboration

• Collaborate with Product Managers, Business Stakeholders, Architects, QE, Operations, and Infrastructure teams.
• Communicate progress, challenges, risks, and achievements to senior leadership.
• Balance customer needs, business priorities, and technical considerations to deliver optimal outcomes.

Required Skills & Experience

Leadership Experience

• Demonstrated experience leading software engineering teams in a sophisticated enterprise environment.
• Experience managing technical leads, or geographically distributed teams preferred.
• Strong coaching, mentoring, and talent-development capabilities.

Technical Background

• Strong software engineering background with experience in large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience with modern software delivery practices including CI/CD, DevSecOps, and Agile methodologies.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms, containerized environments, and modern application architectures.
• Experience operating high-availability, critically meaningful technology platforms.

Delivery & Operations

• Proven track record of delivering sophisticated technology initiatives.
• Experience managing production services and operational support environments.
• Strong understanding of reliability, performance, scalability, and observability practices.

Communication

• Excellent collaborator management and communication skills.
• Ability to influence across technical and business organizations.
• Strong written and verbal communication abilities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in financial services, market data, exchange connectivity, or low-latency systems.
• Experience with real-time data collection, normalization, distribution, or trading-related platforms.
• Knowledge of cloud transformation and platform modernization programs.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted engineering, automation frameworks, and software delivery optimization.
• Experience leading globally distributed engineering organizations.

What You'll Deliver

• Improved engineering delivery performance and predictability.
• Greater operational resilience and service quality.
• Accelerated platform modernization and cloud adoption.
• Strong engineering culture, capability, and talent development.
• Increased automation, efficiency, and engineering productivity.
• Enhanced customer outcomes through reliable, scalable market data solutions.

Leadership Expectations

The successful candidate will embody LSEG's leadership principles by:

• Leading with accountability and ownership.
• Building empowered, product-focused engineering teams.
• Driving innovation while maintaining operational excellence.
• Creating an inclusive, collaborative, and high-performance culture.
• Delivering measurable business and customer outcomes.

This role offers an opportunity to shape the future of Real-Time Collections Engineering while leading teams responsible for some of LSEG's most critical market data platforms.

Career Stage:

Manager

London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) Information:

Join us and be part of a team that values innovation, quality, and continuous improvement. If you're ready to take your career to the next level and make a significant impact, we'd love to hear from you.

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, Partne