Senior Software Engineer

About Us:

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.

Role Description:

LSEG delivers truly world-changing insight based on rich content sources. This is a limitless playing field where we apply the most advanced numerical analytics techniques and provide our clients with state-of-the-art products and capabilities.

This is a golden opportunity for a talented software engineer who has Analytics experience or the strong desire to learn about this stimulating field. We are building upon a new and rapidly evolving Public Cloud based analytics platform and are prepared to train the successful candidate to augment their skills.

Working closely with research teams, product managers and architects you will develop, build, improve and test financial data analysis models and associated practices and procedures. With other partners we innovate constantly improve our models and to provide truly differentiating insight for our customers.

Key Responsibilities:

• Engaging with product owners, architects and other specialists you'll design and build world-class cloud native solutions.

• You will assist your workstream by writing user stories, refining and estimating them as part of an agile process.

• You'll build and maintain efficient, reusable, reliable and secure enterprise software, adhering to company standards.

• Demonstrating a consistent focus on quality, you'll ensure that you deliver reliable software through static analysis, unit testing and other industry standard ways of working.

• You'll provide technical support to operations or other development teams.

• To help the team develop and learn, you'll review work of peers, providing advice and guidance to benefit the team as a whole.

• Through agile retrospectives and reviews, you'll adapt and find innovative ways to make your team work more effectively.

• Through participation in refinement and planning sessions, you'll work with other team members to analyze development requirements, provide design options and complexity estimates, and agree how to deliver the requirements. Candidate Profile / Key Skills:

• You will have solid engineering skills, be able to quickly grasp and contribute to existing codebases and design concepts.

Essential Skills & Experience Required:

• Positive attitude to learning new skills and technologies

• Dedicated, goal-oriented teammate with good communication skills

• Building and deploying AWS and MS Azure based applications

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform

• Proficient with Git

• Proficient with CI/CD automation

• Knowledge of databases and SQL

• Ability to work in an agile team environment

Nice to Have:

• Problem solving, algorithmic thinking and coding skills

• Practical knowledge and experience of Java and C# knowledge is a plus

• Working with financial data

• Linux/Unix Experience

Education:
A good relevant degree is desirable, but experience and the right approach to work are just as important

• AWS certificate is nice to have

Benefits:

We are looking for intellectually curious people, passionate about the bigger picture of how technology industry is evolving, ready to ask difficult questions and deal with complicated scenarios! If you are creative and a problem solver, this is the place to be as will be supporting you to fast-forward your career!

We maximise each employee’s potential through personal development through a wide range of learning tools both formal and informal. We believe in remunerating our people with competitive salaries and a range of attractive benefits such as:

• 25 days’ holiday per year

• 1 additional day off for your Birthday

• Annual wellness allowance

• Share Purchase Plan

• Medical Health Insuran