Senior Lead Software Engineer

As a Lead Software Engineer, you will help to design and build solutions in the complex and challenging domain of Digital Rights Management. You will lead a squad of engineers, maintaining focus on secure, quality code whilst providing guidance and mentorship. You will use automation to maximise efficiency and repeatability across the Software Development Lifecycle. You will participate in strategy and design discussions with key stakeholders from across the programme. You will work in a fast-paced, agile environment and lead by example, developing solutions in Public Cloud. You’ll be a strong, confident communicator, comfortable liaising with senior leaders from across the organisation

What You'll Be Doing

• Providing technical leadership to software engineers in your squad
• Inspiring and mentoring more-junior engineers
• Work with enterprise architects to design optimized solutions which meet product requirements
• Coding secure, efficient, and effective solutions
• Delivering solutions using Microsoft Azure capabilities
• Adopting DevOps principles to code, build and implement solutions
• Providing support to Reliability Engineering teams releasing the software that your team have built
• Ensuring that solutions conform to LSEG test strategy standards
• Working with Product Owners to understand requirements
• Working with the squad to provide accurate estimations for delivery
• Providing commitments to deliver features and successfully meeting them
• Providing clear and concise communications to the squad and stakeholders
• Helping to attract and recruit talent to a growing team

• 8+ years of Software Engineering experience using
  • C# .NET
  • Relational and NoSQL databases
  • Python
• 3+ years experience of leading successful engineering squads
• Demonstrable experience of building applications in Public Cloud – ideally Microsoft Azure
• A good understanding of ‘well-architected’ principles
• An empathetic, supportive leader able to inspire your team
• Motivation, self-starting and a ‘can do’ attitude
• Strong written and spoken communication skills with an ability to present
• An enthusiasm to learn new technology and approaches – and share them with others
• A willingness to undertake Azure certification
• An understanding of the financial information domain is desirable
• A desire to collaborate effectively with internal and external stakeholders