Director - Cloud Platform Engineering in London

Role Summary: Lead the strategy, engineering, and operation of LSEG’s core cloud platforms. This deeply technical leadership role is accountable for the engineering, architecture, product roadmap, and operational excellence of the platforms that enable LSEG engineering teams to build, deploy, and run services securely, reliably, and at scale. You will lead a large product engineering organisation and work with engineering, product, architecture, security, risk, and operations teams to build cloud platforms as long‑lived, evergreen products. Focus: developing self‑service internal developer platforms, enabling thousands of engineers to consume platform capabilities through well‑defined productised interfaces while maintaining safety, compliance, and reliability.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Own the strategy, technical direction, and roadmap for our Core Cloud Platforms, ensuring the platform meets LSEG’s needs for resilience, security, observability, performance, scalability, and developer experience.
• Lead the engineering and evolution of self‑service cloud platform capabilities, enabling teams to provision, deploy, and operate services through automated, productised interfaces.
• Build and operate cloud platforms as evergreen products, with clear customer outcomes, service models, adoption strategy, lifecycle management, and roadmaps.
• Accountability for the developer experience of consuming LSEG’s core cloud platforms.
• Provide deep technical leadership across public cloud platforms, shaping standards, architectures, and guardrails for enterprise‑scale cloud engineering.
• Drive modern Site Reliability Engineering practices across the platform, including SLIs/SLOs, incident management, resilience engineering, and operational readiness.
• Establish and evolve platform observability, ensuring systems are measurable, diagnosable, and operable across infrastructure, runtime, and application layers.
• Define and govern release and testing frameworks for platform components.
• Champion automation‑first engineering through infrastructure as code, CI/CD, policy as code, and developer self‑service.
• Partner with security, risk, architecture, and product leadership to align platform strategy with regulatory and business priorities.
• Lead, coach, and develop engineering managers and senior engineers, building high‑performing teams rooted in technical excellence.
• Manage significant budgets, investment priorities, and vendor relationships.
• Engage senior stakeholders (C‑Level) effectively, translating complex technical topics into clear decisions and trade‑offs.

What You’ll Bring:

• Proven experience leading large‑scale platform engineering, cloud engineering, or infrastructure engineering organisations.
• Deep technical expertise in public cloud platforms, with strong hands‑on experience in at least one major CSP and broad understanding across others.
• Understanding of Kubernetes and CNCF ecosystem tooling, with practical experience designing or operating cloud‑native platforms.
• Experience in Site Reliability Engineering, production operations, and platform observability.
• Experience building internal developer platforms and self‑service capabilities, with a focus on developer experience and adoption.
• Proven experience treating platforms as products, including roadmap ownership, lifecycle thinking, and customer‑centric design.
• Strong experience defining release frameworks, testing strategies, and deployment models for shared platforms.
• Deep understanding of infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and automation‑first engineering.
• Solid grounding in cloud networking, identity, security, governance, and compliance in enterprise environments.
• Demonstrated ability to drive technological and cultural change toward modern engineering practices.
• Experience in Cloud Cost Management and FinOps.
• Strong people leadership experience, including leading managers and developing senior technical talent.
• Experience managing significant budgets and delivery priorities.
• Excellent communication and senior stakeholder (C‑Level) management skills.

Preferred:

• Experience in enterprise‑scale multi‑cloud environments.
• Familiarity with CNCF ecosystem tools such as service mesh, observability stacks, and policy engines.
• Experience in regulated, high‑availability environments (e.g., financial services).
• Experience in modern software engineering practices and languages (Python, Go).
• Experience building or enabling platforms that support AI/ML workloads.
• Experience enabling AI‑augmented engineering teams, embedding AI‑assisted tooling into the development lifecycle.

What You’ll Get in Return:

• The opportunity to shape the future of Cloud Platform Engineering at LSEG.
• A role that combines deep technical leadership with broad organisational impact.
• The chance to build and evolve cloud platforms as products, directly impacting engineering velocity, resilience, and business outcomes.
• The ability to work on complex, mission‑critical systems operating at global scale, with high expectations for reliability, performance, and security.
• A collaborative, product‑led environment where modern engineering practices and continuous improvement are actively supported.
• Hybrid working model (3 days per week in the office).

Equal Opportunity Statement: LSEG is a proud equal‑opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, disability, or any other protected class under applicable law. LSEG accommodates applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, and provides reasonable accommodations for mental health or physical disability needs.