Senior Engineering Lead; Index Distribution

• FTSE Russell is seeking a senior software engineer to be part a dynamic team of software engineers building all distribution capabilities of our index products to the financial community worldwide
• The distribution platform encompasses the set of systems delivering our indexes to the clients subscribing to these indexes. This includes systems to provide analytics on our products, the build of our product data stores, the delivery our products across a variety of technology channels (files, APIs …), the build of permissioning systems, and tracking who is consuming which product through which delivery channel
• Building a state-of-the-art distribution system is our core objective. Ensuring that our clients receive consistent products, reliably with high content and format quality is central to the client experience, and therefore to the value of our products
• As an Index Distribution Manager Software Engineering, you are responsible for building a modern cloud native (on AWS) distribution infrastructure, with high resilience. You will mentor junior developers, to provide scalable solutions to deliver high quality index products to our clients. You will ensure the index distribution initiatives are being delivered on time and on budget, meeting function and non-functional requirements
• You will own the software development lifecycle, delivering high-quality software, and fostering a culture of quality, innovation and continuous improvement
• As a hands‑on senior software engineer, you’ll build with purpose — solving real‑world problems with measurable impact
• Design, build, and scale next‑gen index distribution platforms with the objective of providing a delightful index consumption experience
• Develop efficient, and secured cloud‑native architectures
• Work with relational databases (PostgresSQL), possibly No
  
  SQL and object stores, and modern Lakehouse architectures (Iceberg)
• Design scalable data models, jointly with data governance
• Contribute to code reviews, mentor peers and more junior members of the team, and help shape a world‑class engineering culture
• Partner with global teams to define new solutions across cloud, data, and analytics
• Work with upstream and downstream development teams to implement functionality
• Be an example for other by embedding a test culture in the software development process with the design of automated and integrated test cases
• Enjoy. Enjoy learning, experimenting, and push for innovative designs to help us building better product experiences for our clients

The ideal candidate combines a strong understanding of market data, expertise in building modern data distribution technologies, including cloud native distribution channels, and strong analytical skills in various languages, the main ones involved being typescript, python and java script (with Angular)
Index and Benchmarking experience is a nice to have but no a strict requirement

Exposure to AWS services

Financial and Capital markets

Solid experience in UI development for business-critical applications in Angular (8 and above), Java Script, HTML/CSS, Java, C#Solid stakeholder management

Pragmatic application of technologies optimized for data distribution use cases

Be able to be product centric and client ledAble to establish credibility quickly

Experience in working with and influencing key decision makers

Demonstrates a can‑do attitude, exhibits self‑confidence and has excellent interpersonal and time management skills

Creative, results driven, self‑motivated, and solutions oriented

Excellent attention to detail and an ability to think laterally to solve business problems

Ability to hit the ground running, learn quickly and work against tight deadlines

Excellent stakeholder management skills