Senior Product Manager – Middleware & Platform Engineering

LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is more than a diversified global financial markets infrastructure and data business. We are dedicated, open-access partners with a dedication to excellence in delivering the services our customers expect from us. With extensive experience, deep knowledge and worldwide presence across financial markets, we enable businesses and economies around the world to fund innovation, manage risk and create jobs. It’s how we’ve contributed to supporting the financial stability and growth of communities and economies globally for more than 300 years. Through a comprehensive suite of trusted financial market infrastructure services – and our open-access model – we provide the flexibility, stability and trust that enable our customers to pursue their ambitions with confidence and clarity.

LSEG is headquartered in the United Kingdom, with significant operations in 70 countries across EMEA, North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific. We employ 25,000 people globally, more than half located in Asia Pacific.

OUR PEOPLE: People are at the heart of what we do and drive the success of our business. Our culture of connecting, creating opportunity and delivering excellence shape how we think, how we do things and how we help our people fulfil their potential. We embrace diversity and actively seek to attract individuals with unique backgrounds and perspectives. We break down barriers and encourage teamwork, enabling innovation and rapid development of solutions that make a difference. Our workplace generates an enriching and rewarding experience for our people and customers alike. Our vision is to build an inclusive culture in which everyone feels encouraged to fulfil their potential.

We know that real personal growth cannot be achieved by simply climbing a career ladder – which is why we encourage and enable a wealth of avenues and interesting opportunities for everyone to broaden and deepen their skills and expertise. As a global organisation spanning 70 countries and one rooted in a culture of growth, opportunity, diversity and innovation, LSEG is a place where everyone can grow, develop and fulfil your potential with meaningful careers!

ROLE SUMMARY: The Infrastructure Platform Engineering (IPE) team, part of Infrastructure and Cloud division, is responsible for the engineering and operation of LSEG’s Group Engineering’s core infrastructure services, including data centres, storage, private cloud, platforms, databases, and middleware. Our mission is to modernise and transform the experience of our customers and our own ways of working, by deploying automation and Platform-as-Product services, to enable increasingly efficient, scalable and secure infrastructure products that better support business operations and future transformation!

As the Senior Product Manager, you will define and evolve the product strategy for LSEG’s enterprise Middleware platforms. This includes technologies supporting messaging, API management across hybrid environment. You will support IPE’s transformation objectives and journey towards Platform as a Product operating model, by playing a pivotal role in repositioning a traditional infrastructure services and platforms into a product-centric capability that enabling self-service consumption, automation-driven provisioning, and modern platform SLAs. This role bridges engineering, architecture, operations, security, and business collaborators, ensuring that Middleware capabilities support division strategic goals. You will translate business demands into technical roadmap, lead cross-functional delivery, and communicate product value to senior collaborators and executive leadership forums.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING:

• Product Vision & Strategy: Partner with customers, collaborators and technical teams to establish a clear product vision and strategy for one/multiple strategic decommissioning products required to tackle problems and meet needs across LSEG’s Engineering estate.
• Product Roadmap & Backlog Definition: Define the product backlog and roadmap, and steer prioritisation of user stories, features, and delivery throughput.
• Business & Demand Planning: Facilitate cross-functional planning, working closely with customers and partner programs to factor inbound dependencies into backlog prioritisation and roadmaps, while ensuring balanced sprint plans.
• Drive cost optimisation: Establish strong partnerships with Asset Management teams to ensure accurate asset insights and lifecycle data. Provide strategic input into cost models, enabling improved decision and measurable financial outcomes for the Group.
• Requirements Gathering: Facilitate discussions with partners to collect requirements and translate them into actionable backlog items, while ensuring clarity and feasibility for engineering teams.
• Ownership of Delivery: Lead delivery across the Decommissioning Engineering team throughout the end-to-end delivery chain, identifying and implementing opportunities to optimise and maximise for value and efficiency.
• Collaborator engagement: Act as a conduit between technical teams and customers, aligning with portfolio and partner program governance processes and fostering collaboration to achieve consensus on key decisions.
• Lead Agile Ceremonies: Facilitate ceremonies such as sprint planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives, ensuring the development process stays on track.
• Reporting: Create clarity and facilitate decisions through insightful and timely reporting to programs and collaborators, using data to advise on progress or improvement opportunities.
• Implementing metrics and benchmarks: Work with the team in defining and meeting the right set of metrics to drive delivery productivity and output quality, including finding opportunities to optimise for timeliness, efficiency and quality in the delivery cycle.
• Risk, Issue & Dependency Management: Proactively lead dependencies, risk and issues for delivery, documenting assumptions, assessing likelihood and impact, planning mitigations and raising issues as needed.
• Foster continuous improvement and collaboration: Drive our collaboration and continuous improvement culture, including seeking to assess and improve processes, tools, and practices to enhance team performance and product quality.

WHAT YOU'LL BRING:

• 5+ years of experience in infrastructure technology, platform engineering, or large-scale transformation roles.
• Demonstrable experience leading sophisticated, cross-functional technology projects as a Product Manager with successful outcomes using agile and lean principles.
• Proven understanding of technology infrastructure, Middleware technologies (e.g. IBM MQ, Messaging, Integration Platforms).
• Strategic and outcome-focused approach with ability to translate high-level business requirements and objectives into practical roadmaps.
• Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills.
• Data literacy and experience working with data, comfortable with data principles and protocol (technical expertise in data analysis or modelling is not required).
• Sophisticated knowledge of Microsoft Tools (Excel, PowerPoint, Word), and experience using planning and tracking tooling such as Asana or crucialntial.

What you will get in return:

• A strategic leadership role at the enterprise level, where you will shape the future of Infrastructure Platform Engineering (IPE) and play a key part in driving the Group’s technology transformation.
• Exposure to pioneering technologies in infrastructure, automation, hybrid cloud, and platform engineering – delivering significant impact through modern delivery models.
• Daily collaboration with dedicated, cross-functional teams including engineering, transformation, product, finance, and operations across multiple geographies.