Senior Engineering Manager, Index Operational Tooling

LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is more than a diversified global financial markets infrastructure and data business. We are dedicated, open-access partners with a commitment to excellence in delivering the services our customers expect from us. With extensive experience, deep knowledge and worldwide presence across financial markets, we enable businesses and economies around the world to fund innovation, manage risk and create jobs.

It’s how we’ve contributed to supporting the financial stability and growth of communities and economies globally for more than 300 years.

Key Functions:

As a Senior Engineering Manager in Index Tooling, the individual will be responsible for leading globally distributed engineering teams delivering and operating business-critical technology platforms supporting index management and operational workflows.

The role combines engineering leadership, technical and architectural oversight, delivery accountability and people development. The candidate will work closely with Product, Operations, Architecture and Technology partners to deliver strategic capabilities, design operational platforms and continuously improve engineering quality, resilience and effectiveness.

Key Responsibilities:

Hands-on engineering leader who builds and scales globally distributed teams, driving the development of resilient, high-performance platforms that enable the end-to-end index lifecycle while partnering with Product and Operations to deliver commercial outcomes

Owns the end-to-end engineering delivery of scalable, resilient, secure and highly available technology solutions supporting index management and operational workflows

Provides technical and architectural direction for new capabilities, platform modernisation and complex engineering decisions

Ensures solutions are designed and delivered in line with agreed engineering standards for maintainability, scalability, security, performance and operational resilience

Drives the modernisation of legacy platforms and adoption of cloud-native architecture where this provides clear business and technology benefit

Establishes and continuously improves engineering practices covering software design, coding standards, code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD, observability, security and automation

Ensures appropriate testing and quality controls are embedded throughout the software delivery lifecycle

Guides teams in the effective design and implementation of APIs, microservices, event-driven architectures, data processing solutions and enterprise integrations

Drives the responsible adoption of AI-assisted engineering, Generative AI, agentic AI and intelligent automation where these can improve engineering productivity, software quality, user experience or operational efficiency

Partners with Product Managers, Operations, Index Delivery & Management, Architecture, UX and other stakeholders to translate business priorities into pragmatic technology solutions and delivery plans

Balances strategic transformation and new capability delivery with the reliability, support and continued evolution of existing business-critical platforms

Communicates technical strategy, delivery progress, risks and complex engineering decisions clearly and effectively to technical and non-technical audiences

Builds a high-performing engineering culture centred on ownership, accountability, collaboration, engineering excellence and continuous improvement

Mentors and develops engineers, technical leads and engineering managers, strengthening technical capability, leadership depth and succession across the organisation

Experience &

Skills:

15+ years of extensive proven experience in software engineering, including the design, development and operation of large-scale,…