At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead the transformation of our data analytics platform to a cloud-native architecture.
- Company: Join a leading financial services firm focused on innovation and technology.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, flexible working options, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Collaborative culture with a focus on quality and innovation.
- Why this job: Make a significant impact on data solutions in a dynamic, regulated environment.
- Qualifications: 15+ years in software engineering with strong leadership and data engineering skills.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
Responsibilities include:
- The Reporting & Data Analytics platform underpins regulatory reporting, risk visibility, member reporting and internal analytics across SwapClear and Listed Rates.
- The platform is subject to exacting availability, accuracy, lineage and governance requirements.
- LCH has embarked on a strategic transformation of its Reporting & Data Analytics architecture, moving from legacy on‑premise Oracle / Informatica stacks to a cloud native, Snowflake based data platform.
- This solution will enable robust, performant reporting, self‑service analytics, and new data distribution patterns for our members and clients.
- Accountable for setting the platform’s technical direction, delivering Reporting & Data Analytics features, and ensuring the ongoing stability of the platform during and beyond the transformation.
- Lead a team of engineers to deliver the reporting and data analytics transformation, with responsibility for technical standards and professional development.
- Ensure the team designs and builds solutions in line with our Engineering Principles, taking a data‑driven approach, innovating with purpose, and acting as an owner.
- Ensure the platform evolves beyond migration into a scalable, governed platform that supports our members and clients, and internal partners.
- Technology owner of the end‑to‑end data solutions for reporting and data analytics across SwapClear and Listed Rates.
- Lead the safe migration from legacy Oracle / Informatica platform to the target cloud architecture.
- Take accountability for successful legacy decommissioning, not just building the new platform.
- Lead the design, implementation and multi‑year phased delivery for SwapClear and Listed Rates.
- Define and drive evolution of the Strategic Cloud data platform, ensuring it is fit for purpose for SwapClear and Listed Rates use cases.
- Ensure the E2E platform meets availability, performance, resilience and security expected of a “systemically important” clearing house.
- Assist Product Owners and Delivery Leads with delivery planning of business goals/outcomes.
- Act as a senior technical partner to Group Architecture Authority, Group Data Governance and Product and business partners.
- Partner with Quality engineering to ensure that all aspects of the software development lifecycle are delivered to high levels of quality and using modern testing standards, automation and cloud‑native practices.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external partners, using influence and trust to drive alignment, resolve challenges, and promote shared quality goals.
Qualifications:
- Deep expertise in data‑centric solutions using SQL, PL/SQL and Python.
- Prior experience working with Informatica PowerCenter or similar solutions.
- Data warehouse modelling approaches.
- Immutable, incremental and versioned data architectures.
- Showed leadership of enterprise‑scale Snowflake (or similar) data platform implementations.
- Quality‑first approach.
- Enterprise scale data modelling.
- Practical and relevant AI experience in data engineering / migrations use cases.
- 15+ years of hands‑on software engineering experience, including at least 5+ years as a technical lead, with a consistent track record of delivering high‑quality solutions.
- ELT data architectures, using dbt or similar.
- Strong engineering background with the ability to engage deeply in design and implementation.
- Seniority and credibility to influence group level architecture and governance bodies.
- Cloud data lake and data warehouse solutions.
- Passionate about metrics‑driven approach and leading with data.
- Data governance, lineage and control frameworks.
- Detail oriented problem solver, comfortable “diving‑deep”.
- Experience operating in regulated, high availability environments.
- Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent.
- Experience of large‑scale real‑time and batch process orchestration, optionally with third‑party orchestration engines.
- Knowledge and practical experience running technology both on prem and in cloud.
- Good understanding of cyber security standards and practices and follows secure‑by‑design principle.
- Experience of working with agile frameworks like Scrum, Kanban.
- Background working in the financial industry.
- Experience of modern observability platforms e.g. DataDog.
Data Engineering Lead in London employer: London Stock Exchange
At LCH, we pride ourselves on being an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic work culture that fosters innovation and collaboration. As a Data Engineering Lead, you will have the opportunity to lead transformative projects in a cutting-edge cloud environment, while benefiting from professional development and growth opportunities within a supportive team. Our commitment to excellence and a metrics-driven approach ensures that you will be part of a forward-thinking organisation that values your contributions and prioritises employee well-being.
We think you need these skills to ace Data Engineering Lead in London
SQL
Problem-Solving Skills
Communication Skills
Python
Automation
Data Engineering
Data Pipeline Development
