Equity Engineering Lead, Index Operations

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ROLE SUMMARY:

FTSE Russell is seeking a hands-on dynamic software engineering lead (SME) to drive a team of software engineers building robust equity index capabilities and indexes. The candidate demonstrates an understanding of the index construction process or a significant market data knowledge, combined with a solid, global, previous experience in leading software development organizations. A strong functional knowledge of Market Data, Equity Index Set up and Management is mandatory for this role.

As the Equity Index Software Development Lead, you will be a hands-on lead also overseeing development of engineers to ensure solutions meet technical and business requirements. Your ability to act as a partner to the index product managers and contribute to solution designs, project estimations, assign the right people and create a can-do execution culture is an important aspect of the job and the culture we want to create.

You will be responsible for overseeing the software development lifecycle, ensuring the team is delivering high-quality software on time, within budget, and fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING:

As an equity index lead software development engineer, you will act as a thought partner:

• To the Product organization, demonstrating execution drive, ability to be part of the solution, reaching the right trade-offs between acceptable scope, cost, implementation timing, but without compromising on the quality of the solutions delivered.

• To the Operations organization, ensuring indexes can be operated at scale and enforcing operational excellence.

• To the wider engineering organization, ensuring solution designs are fit for purpose, delivered on time and on budget, and when necessary anticipating issues, delays and regroup the right teams and resources to find solutions.

• As a hands-on Engineer, you’ll build with purpose — solving real-world problems with measurable impact.

• Design, build, and scale our current index platforms.

• Develop efficient, and secure cloud-native architectures.

• Work with RDBMS systems and databases such as Sybase or SQL Server.

• Contribute to code reviews, mentor peers, and help shape a world-class engineering culture.

• Partner with global teams to define new solutions across cloud, data, and analytics.

• Work with upstream and downstream development teams to implement functionality.

• Ensure the Engineering organization embed a test culture in the software development process with the design of automated and integrated test cases.

• Promote a culture of teamwork, high performance and quality via code reviews, ensuring standards and best practices are followed via agile methodologies.

• Communicate with clarity, precision, and influence, presenting complex information in a clear and concise format that is appropriate for the audience

• Helps in recruitment/setting up of teams through interviewing and identifying different skill sets required to deliver the project successfully

• Drive Risk objectives-drive the remediation of platform risks - both functionally and technically

WHAT YOU'LL BRING:

• Backend: C# .NET, SQL, APIs, microservices, Pytho

• Frontend (Desirable): Angular, JavaScript, HTML5/CSS

• Extensive Cloud Exerience - AWS or Azure

• Databases: SQL Server, Sybase, PostgreSQL

• CI/CD: Jenkins, Terraform, GitLab, GitHub Actions

• AI: Good understanding and implementation to drive efficiencies and optimisation

• Index and Benchmarking experience with a strong understanding of market data

• Experience in UI development for business-critical applications in Angular (8 and above), Java Script, HTML/CSS, C#

• Experience in Cloud computing

• Solid stakeholder management

Personal traits you should have:

• Can-do attitude, ability to build bridges and establish partnerships

• Excellent attention to detail and an ability to think laterally to solve business problems.

• Ability to hit the ground running, learn quickly and work against tight deadlines.

• Creative, results driven, self-motivated, and solutions oriented.

• Demonstrates self-confidence, flawless communication, excellent interpersonal and time management skills

• Experience in working with and influencing key decision makers

• Able to establish credibility quickly.

• •  Excellent stakeholder management skills.

Career Stage:

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.

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