Senior Lead Developer, Fx Exchange Engineering

Role Purpose

Applies business requirements and knowledge of software development lifecycles to design, produce and guide the development of complex software products or customer solutions within the FX Exchange Engineering & Technology space.

**Responsibilities**:
Key responsibilities
- Contributes to and develops high-quality software design and architecture
- Identifies, prioritises and executes tasks in the software development life cycle
- Designs, develops and delivers software solutions that align with architecture, operational and risk processes
- Works closely with the Research, Product and Sales teams to deliver products, services, enhancements and solutions to meet customer needs and align with the goals of the business line
- Automates tasks through appropriate tools and scripting
- Supports validation and verification testing
- Collaborates with internal teams (including Product Owners/Business and Client Analysis) and vendors to fix and improve products
- Provides expert technical leadership as required

Leadership responsibilities

Provides technical leadership

Critical deliverables

FX Exchange Venue & Applications Modules. FX Product deliverables

Impact

This role is key to delivering the FX Customer Exchange technologies as part of FX Integration and future FX opportunities.

Key KPIs
- Team velocity
- Sprint Burndown
- Cycle Time
- Cumulative Flow
- Code metrics
- Test metrics
- Operational/Defect metrics
- Technical / job functional knowledge

Essential experience:

- Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering or equivalent
- Foreign Exchange Trading technology
- Secure in knowledge of C++ 11/14/17
- Multi-threading & concurrency
- Experience in Agile development methodologies
- Proficient at delivering quality software
- Atlassian Jira and Confluence
- CICD tooling such as Git/Gitlab/Bamboo/BitBucket/Sonarqube
- Application Security Tools such as Veracode/Coverity/Blackduck
- Continuously adopt a pragmatic, flexible and responsive approach
- Hands on experience of automation
- Linux

Preferred:

- FX Options knowledge
- FIX 5.x
- REST
- Windows

Business and sector expertise
- Experience in FX industry & regulated environments required
- Experience in broader financial markets preferred
- Leadership and management experience
- Experience in technical thought leadership
- Understanding of stakeholder management
- Experience collaborating with vendors and cross-organizational teams
- Personal skills and capabilities
- Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or Electronics / Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience
- Strong verbal and written communcations with ability to communicate to non-technical partners
- Analytical, Results driven, Innovative, Tenacious, Accountable, Collaborative, Customer Focused

Diversity & Inclusion

People are at the heart of what we do and drive the success of our business. Our colleagues thrive personally and professionally through our shared values of Integrity, Partnership, Innovation and Excellence are at the core of our culture. We embrace diversity and actively seek to attract people with unique backgrounds and perspectives. We are always looking at ways to become more agile, so we meet the needs of our teams and customers. We believe that an inclusive collaborative workplace is pivotal to our success and supports the potential and growth of all colleagues at LSEG

At LSEG, we believe that creating a diverse and inclusive organisation is fundamental to the way we deliver on our promise of creating essential partnerships and open opportunities. Our open culture is central to how we deliver our purpose - driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth - in everything we do.

Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 70 countries. However, we will value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce. You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas and are committed to sustainability across our global business. You will experience the critical role we have in helping to re-engineer the financial ecosystem to support and drive sustainable economic growth. Together, we are aiming to achieve this growth by accelerating the just transition to net zero, enabling growth of the green economy and creating inclusive economic opportunity.

LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.

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.