Why This Role
We’re building next‑generation Risk Intelligence platforms that enable customers to make trusted decisions at scale, in real time. As a Director of Engineering, you will define and drive the technology and product engineering strategy across a portfolio of products—owning outcomes from 0→1 innovation through 1→n scale and platformization.
What You’ll Do
- Define and execute engineering strategy: Own the multi‑year vision and roadmap for Risk Intelligence products and platforms, aligning with customer value, market trends, and business outcomes while evolving products into scalable platforms.
- Drive innovation at scale: Oversee the lifecycle from 0→1 experimentation to enterprise‑scale platforms, ensuring strong problem framing, rapid validation, and continuous evolution to meet global, multi‑tenant needs.
- Lead through leaders: Build and scale a high‑performing leadership bench, fostering accountability, empowerment, and a culture of ownership and continuous improvement.
- Deliver engineering excellence: Establish standards for architecture, reliability, observability, and operational maturity; drive SLO‑based practices and continuous improvement using data (e.g., DORA metrics).
- Own business and operational outcomes: Ensure predictable delivery, cost efficiency, and ROI; lead portfolio planning and prioritization while balancing speed, quality, security, and regulatory requirements.
- Architect for scale and flexibility: Guide strategic decisions on platforms, data, APIs, event‑driven systems, and cloud; drive build vs. buy decisions and ensure long‑term scalability and interoperability.
- Influence across the organization: Partner with senior stakeholders and represent engineering in executive forums to align with regulatory, risk, and business priorities.
- Build a high‑performance culture: Promote innovation, inclusion, and accountability while advancing engineering productivity, developer experience, and talent engagement.
What You’ll Bring
- 12–18+ years of experience in software engineering, with 5–8+ years in engineering leadership roles.
- Proven success leading multiple teams or organizations, delivering complex distributed systems at scale.
- Strong track record of defining and executing technology strategy aligned to business outcomes.
- Experience scaling products from early‑stage innovation to enterprise platforms.
- Deep expertise in modern architectures (cloud‑native, APIs, event‑driven systems, data platforms).
- Demonstrated ability to lead through leaders, influencing across organizational boundaries.
- Strong business acumen with experience managing budgets, cost optimization, and investment tradeoffs.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, including executive‑level influence.
How We’ll Measure Success
- Business & product impact: Revenue growth, customer adoption, retention, satisfaction, and faster time‑to‑first‑value (TTFV) toward strong product‑market fit.
- Engineering excellence: Improved DORA metrics (lead time, deployment frequency, reliability), high service reliability, and consistent SLO attainment.
- Organizational health: Strength of leadership bench, effective succession planning, and strong employee engagement, growth, and retention.
- Operational efficiency: Optimized engineering costs (cloud, tooling), with predictable, high‑quality portfolio delivery.
Technologies You and the Organization May Use
- Backends & APIs: .NET, Java, Go, Node.js; REST/gRPC; event‑driven architectures.
- Frontends: React, Next.js, design systems.
- Cloud & Platform: Azure/AWS, containers, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code.
- Data & Observability: Distributed data systems, streaming, metrics/logs/traces.
Ways of Working
- Hybrid collaboration with focused in‑person sessions for strategy, architecture, and high‑impact alignment moments.
- Emphasis on autonomy, clarity, and outcomes over process.
Leadership Principles (Director‑level expectations)
- Think in systems: Optimize for org and platform outcomes, not just team outputs.
- Lead through influence: Align diverse stakeholders toward a common vision.
- Data‑driven decisions: Use metrics, customer insights, and experimentation to guide strategy.
- Own the business outcome: Engineering is accountable for both technology and business impact.
Career Stage
Director
London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) Information
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