IT & Software

Senior Technical Lead - Real Time Platform

London Stock Exchange Group

London · Greater London · United Kingdom

Overview

In this Senior Technical Lead role, you will drive the design and delivery of a cloud-native, low-latency real-time platform that underpins global index calculations. You’ll own architecture, ensure quality, and lead through hands-on delivery within a cross-functional team. The role emphasizes performance, data accuracy, and reliability under market conditions, leveraging AWS and AI-assisted tooling to accelerate progress. You’ll contribute to a culture of engineering excellence and impactful, customer-focused solutions.

Pay / Benefits
  • healthcare
  • retirement planning
  • paid volunteering days
  • wellbeing initiatives
Responsibilities
  • Design and build real-time, event-driven systems with low latency and high reliability
  • Own platform architecture and engineering quality through hands-on delivery and code reviews
  • Scale and operate cloud-native platform on AWS with resilience and observability
  • Define data models and pipelines for market and reference data with auditability
  • Drive engineering standards and modernisation using AI-assisted tooling and automation
Key requirements
  • Strong software engineering background in distributed, event-driven systems
  • Experience owning system design and architecture balancing performance, scalability, and reliability
  • Hands-on experience with cloud-native applications on AWS
  • Solid data modeling and production-relational database experience
  • Experience with infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform) and modern CI/CD practices
  • Proven ability to lead through engineering quality including testing strategy
  • ownership
  • collaboration
  • customer-driven mindset
  • Java
  • C#
  • Python

Reference: WJ-747_30303086

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