Lead, Engineering Practices

Company: London Stock Exchange Group
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Location: Whitehall
Job Description:

Role Profile

As a Lead in the Engineering Practices team, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and advancing engineering practices across the organisation. This varied position covers many aspects of engineering, including Cloud, Software Development, DevOps, CICD, Observability and Operations, ensuring our engineering practices are fit‑for‑purpose and ensuring best practices are adopted throughout our teams. Key responsibilities of this role will be to drive initiatives around operational practices, including FinOps, Observability, Resilience and Operational Automation. You will collaborate with senior leaders, engineers, and cross‑functional teams, providing thought leadership and mentoring to support the professional development and growth of our engineering community.

Responsibilities

  • Drive initiatives around operational practices, including FinOps, Observability, Resilience, and Operational Automation, to achieve operational cost efficiency.
  • Develop strategies, steer and monitor the delivery of key parts of Engineering Practices.
  • Lead the evolution and adoption of engineering practices across the organisation, ensuring methodologies remain up‑to‑date and effective, particularly in support of AI initiatives.
  • Define and build metrics to measure operational efficiency across the Group.
  • Collaborate closely with senior leaders, engineers, and cross‑functional teams to provide thought leadership, mentorship, and support for professional growth within the engineering community.

Qualifications

  • Broad experience of software and cloud engineering in large, complex organisations.
  • Deep understanding of modern engineering practices (DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure, CICD, Testing, Observability etc) and IT service management (ITSM) enabled by a modern engineering tooling ecosystem.
  • Hands‑on experience with coding and the ability to solve problems using common engineering tools (GitHub/GitLab, Python, Java, Go, PowerBI, SQL, GitHub Copilot, etc).
  • A passion for driving and delivering operational efficiencies.
  • Experience working in a large, complex organisation where decisions and actions are highly federated.
  • Solid skills in leading and managing communities of internal stakeholders, fostering collaboration and driving the adoption of strategic standards and ways of working.

Benefits

  • An opportunity to shape and drive impactful initiatives within a leading global financial market infrastructure provider.
  • Work with the most knowledgeable leaders in LSEG’s engineering and operational domains to solve impactful problems.
  • Exposure to cutting‑edge Engineering practices, such as Agentic AI development, and inspiration from industry trends and high‑profile use cases from across LSEG.
  • Be recognised as a trusted advisor and expert in LSEG, contributing your expertise and thought leadership to all engineering divisions within the organisation.

Career Stage

Manager

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. This means that we do not discriminate on the basis of anyone’s race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. Conforming with applicable law, we can reasonably accommodate applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.

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Posted: June 6th, 2026