Developer - London Stock Exchange Group

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.

Are you passionate about making developers' lives easier, faster, and more fulfilling? Do you dream of streamlining workflows, squashing bugs, and fuelling innovation? We're on a mission to supercharge our engineering culture by building a world-class Developer community that’s the envy of the industry.

In this role, you’ll be joining our Engineering Team within Engineering Excellence & Productivity (EXP) as a Developer Platforms Engineer. Developer Platforms' mission is to:

• Enable rapid developer onboarding to LSEG developer tools, ensuring they become productive quickly to build applications on their chosen Cloud platform.
• Improve Developer Experience by increasing their ability to improve cadence of delivery of new features.
• Unlock Developer Capacity and enable greater Innovation by modernising tooling and processes.
• Ensure that development on the integrated platform is both secure and compliant by design.

DETAILED RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Ensure quality deliverables to ensure software meets or exceeds specified standards and objectives.
• Apply software engineering principles and practices to design, build, and run solutions which are scalable and reliable.
• Design, develop, modify, adapt and implement short and long-term solutions to technology needs through new and existing applications, systems architecture, network systems and applications infrastructure.
• The team(s) continuously fine-tune systems to meet stringent non-functional requirements on performance, resilience and operability, and design.
• Demonstrates significant knowledge of a single or multiple technologies and advises on design, development and implementation.
• Advances tools and applications by producing clean and efficient code and reviews others' code when required.
• Handles own workload and promotes an inclusive and open culture.
• Demonstrates depth of knowledge and expertise in software development and is regarded as the SME in their domain. Develops knowledge of other domains to understand linkages and dependencies.
• Understands the tech strategy and culture, and how they impact own work as well as adjacent teams.
• Oversees the design work and planning for user journeys ensuring they achieve the desired objectives.
• Supports the creation of solutions for Epics and the associated implementation tasks.
• Adapts existing patterns to develop robust solutions.
• Develops understanding of LSEG's commercial direction and how technology is forming a part of this.
• Completes the delivery of given tasks with some guidance and oversight.
• Builds strong relationships with senior internal stakeholders, growing network and collaborating with own team and colleagues in other domains. Communicates complex information clearly to relevant audiences.
• Takes initiative to develop knowledge in technology products and tools through on the job learning, certifications and projects.
• Must interact with global teams in time zones spanning UK, US, APAC areas.
• Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services-from inception and design, through to deployment, operation, and refinement.
• Support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning and launch reviews.
• Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency, and overall system health.
• Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.
• Build a CI/CD pipeline and maintain the pipeline for Software Delivery.
• Collaborate with Security and Infrastructure teams to ensure the patching are up to date.
• Co-ordinate and work with Devops Capability team to perform the Disaster recovery for the applications.
• Participate in Project related activities to meet operational needs.
• To ensure knowledge Articles of all supported systems is continually updated.
• To provide a high level of customer service, whilst working under pressure.
• To follow and adhere to established Incident Management, Change Management and Problem Management procedures.

TECH PROFILE/ESSENTIAL SKILLS:

• Good knowledge of Infrastructure as Code concepts (IAC) and basics of Microservices architecture.
• Knowledge of Cloud Technology basics across CSPs - Amazon, Microsoft, and Google (at least one).
• Knowledge and implementation experience of DevOps, CI/CD, DevSecOps concepts.
• Good level of understanding of Architecture principles, design methodologies and their applicability.
• Hands-on experience of creating and deploying CI/CD pipelines (GitLab / Jenkins / GitHub).
• Configuring and running Code/Binary scans using solutions like SonarQube, Semgrep, Blackbuck, Trivy, GitLeaks Veracode, etc.
• Configuring and using Secrets management tools like Vault and Cloud native solutions.
• Broad knowledge of SDLC Tools, specifically Build, Test and Deploy Automation tools, e.g., Maven, Gradle, Selenium, Ansible, etc.
• Good understanding of Source code mgmt solutions like GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket, etc.
• Good understanding of Artifact and dependency mgmt solutions like JFrog, Nexus, etc.
• Good understanding on Containerisation solutions, e.g., K8, Docker, Kaniko, etc.
• Proficiency in at least one of the standard programming languages - Java/JavaScript, C#, Python, or similar Object-oriented programming.
• Proficiency in at least one of the standard scripting languages - Terraform, Bash, Ansible, etc.
• Good understanding of Software engineering concepts, e.g., coding techniques (DRY principles), Trunk based development (Branching/Merging techniques), etc.
• Good understanding of Developer Desktops - both Physical and Virtual (W365) and implementation of tooling framework/solutions for Desktops.
• Good understanding of the basics of Gen AI concepts and solutions - GitHub Copilot, GitLab Duo, Q developer.
• Previous experience in a Project delivery, Coordination or Support role.
• Previous experience of Software Development, Business and Technical Analysis, Quality Assurance, and / or Emerging Technology and Governance.
• PPM Tools (ex: Clarity, JIRA, Asana).

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• Hands-On experience of working on Windows/ Linux Servers. Cloud services (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Managing incidents, change requests, service requests and driving TRT (Technical Recovery Team) calls.
• Strong problem solving skills on these platforms.
• Minimum knowledge and understanding of financial markets are desirable.
• Ability to work independently and in a team environment.
• Ability to communicate effectively in English with all levels of staff, both orally and written.
• Ability to manage own work and multitask to meet tight deadlines without losing sight of priorities under minimum supervision.
• Highly motivated, self-directed individual with a positive & pro-active attitude to work.
• Customer and service focused, with determination to meet their needs and expectations.
• Be driven and committed to the goals and objectives of the team and organization.
• Second line point of escalation in event of a major incident.

KEY COMPETENCIES:

• Deploys agile best practices as appropriate throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Analyses infrastructure requirements and designs the architecture for central or distributed processing to meet user requirements.
• Creates, applies and implements technologies to deliver and produce services with minimal human intervention, to improve the efficiency, reliability and speed tasks.
• Develops, tests and maintains software applications and related programs and procedures; demonstrates creativity and innovation using available software development tools and following design requirements.
• Creates and maintains documentation to describe the system and its parts, including requirements documents, design decisions, architecture descriptions, program source code and support documentation.
• Possesses depth of technical expertise, knowledge of technologies and design, development and implementation of technologies.
• Possesses knowledge of features and facilities for integration, and communication among applications, databases and technology platforms to bring together different components and form a fully functional solution to a business problem.
• Shows ability to come up with new ideas and novel approaches to problems and establish solutions through different methods.
• Partners with clients and resolves issues by diagnosing problems, determining possible resolutions and implementing effective solutions.
• Defines a problem, generates solutions, and evaluates and identifies the best solution to overcome the problem.
• Interacts well with others, quickly establishing rapport building positive relationships and networks.
• Ensures a product/service meets or exceeds specified standards and objectives to achieve desired level of quality.

EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL SKILLS:

• Curious about new technologies and tools, creative thinking and initiative taking.
• Solid English reading/writing capability required.
• Strong communication & collaboration skills.
• Commitment to DevOps culture.
• Familiarity with Agile principles including any hand on experience.