CDSClear Clearing Platform Engineering Manager

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:

Do you have a passion for technology? Do you want to learn and make a difference in financial markets infrastructure?  We’re looking for passionate technologists to help us lead the way.

CDSClear IT is the team behind the technology powering CDSClear – a critical clearing service within the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG).  Our technology provides the core clearing and risk management platform functionality.  The systems undergo change as part of projects with commercial, operational risk reduction, regulatory or infrastructure drivers.

We are looking for a highly skilled Engineering Manager to manage development efforts for CDSClear's Clearing Platform and lead a team of Engineers based in London.  In this role, you will manage the development of software components handling market connectivity, trade registration, trade life-cyling and reporting. You will work closely the broader development team covering Risk and External Portal components as well the QA and IT Support areas.  The role provides an opportunity to partner with the CDSClear business stakeholders to take the platform and business through the next stage of business develpoment. We would like you to leverage automation and new innovations in AI tooling to enhance quality and time-to-market.

Key Responsibilities:

• Development Management of Trade Management Engineering and related functions.
• Lead the engineering of CDSClear’s clearing platform with functions including external market connectivity, trade registration, life-cycling and reporting.
• People Leader with direct management responsibility of London based team members.
• Collaborate with Risk Development, QA, IT Support and other colleagues to deliver high quality end-to-end solutions.
• Engage with projects during full SDLC and take ownership for delivery of high quality solutions through to production.
• Lead Continuous Improvement across the IT stack to address defects, improve delivery productivity and iteratively modernise the overall platform
• Face-off to Stakeholders – Business Transformation, Product, Risk, Operations, Customer Success Management, Engineering Architecture, Compliance and Second Line Risk, - to understand business requirements, design solutions and deliver high impact production change.
• Manage third-line support of Production and Test systems.

Candidate Profile / Key Skills:

• System design knowledge applicable to Derivative Trade Capture or Front‑to‑Back processing systems or similar.  Will need to be able to lead all aspects of the engineering of external connectivity and protocol implementation (FpML workflows), trade life-cycling functions, data quality controls, retention strategies and Member, Client and Regulatory reporting solutions.
• Lead, coached and developed Engineering staff in business aligned teams.
• Engineering of a Java / Oracle technology stack in a Financial Services environment.
• Appreciation of DevOps tools and technologies such as GitLab, Ansible, Terraform and Helm.
• Demonstrated ability to maximise automated test tooling.
• Solid understanding of Engineering Principles and Industry Good Practice applicable to Financial Markets Infrastructure.
• Delivery management of multi-person and multi-month initiatives following plans agreed with business stakeholders.
• Able to develop a vision for system improvement to be executed in iterations over multiple years.
• Strong verbal and written English skills.

It would help us if you have:

• Knowledge of Credit Derivative Trade Capture and Life-cycling as well as knowledge of Derivative Clearing.
• Embraced AI development tools in a team environment to successfully accelerate development and/or improve quality of output.
• AWS Cloud Architecture experience.
• Knowledge of market risk reporting will be useful.

Why Join Us?

• Be part of a global mission with real impact in the financial markets.
• Work with leading-edge technologies in a hybrid on prem / cloud environment.
• Enjoy a flexible, hybrid work model and a supportive, inclusive culture.
• Access to career development, training, and international opportunities within LSEG.

Career Stage:

Manager

London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) Information:

Join us and be part of a team that values innovation, quality, and continuous improvement. If you're ready to take your career to the next level and make a significant impact, we'd love to hear from you.

LSEG is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider. Our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.

Our purpose is the foundation on which our culture is built. Our values of Integrity, Partnership, Excellence and Change underpin our purpose and set the standard for everything we do, every day. They go to the heart of who we are and guide our decision making and everyday actions.

Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 65 countries. However, we will value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce.

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You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas. We are committed to sustainability across our global business and we are proud to partner with our customers to help them meet their sustainability objectives. Our charity, the LSEG Foundation provides charitable grants to community groups that help people access economic opportunities and build a secure future with financial independence. Colleagues can get involved through fundraising and volunteering.

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