Technical Lead

Overview

As Technical Lead in the Engineering Excellence & Productivity team, you will guide developer platforms to speed onboarding, improve delivery cadence, and modernise tooling while ensuring security by design. You’ll work with cross-functional teams to enhance developer experience and capacity, enabling rapid building on chosen cloud platforms. The role combines hands-on engineering with architectural oversight to drive scalable, secure solutions that support LSEG’s mission and transformation. You’ll influence tooling, processes, and standards across the platform.

Pay / Benefits

• Healthcare
• Retirement planning
• Paid volunteering days
• Wellbeing initiatives

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable software and infrastructure solutions that meet non-functional requirements
• Lead and contribute to CI/CD pipeline development and maintenance (GitLab/Jenkins/GitHub)
• Assist with security-focused tooling (code/binary scanning, secrets management) and DevSecOps practices
• Guide architecture decisions, design methodologies, and SDLC tooling across builds, tests, and deployments
• Collaborate with security and infrastructure teams to ensure patching and reliability
• Coordinate disaster recovery activities with the DevOps capability team
• Engage with global teams and stakeholders to manage incidents, changes, and service delivery
• Develop and maintain knowledge articles and documentation for supported systems
• Support Epics and implementation tasks, adapting patterns for robust solutions
• Promote DevOps culture, agile practices, and effective communication across teams

Key requirements

• Infrastructure as Code concepts
• Cloud basics across major CSPs (AWS/Azure/GCP)
• DevOps, CI/CD, DevSecOps concepts
• Architecture principles and design methodologies
• Hands-on CI/CD pipelines (GitLab/Jenkins/GitHub)
• Code/binary scanning tools (SonarQube, Semgrep, Blackduck, Trivy, GitLeaks, Veracode)
• Secrets management (Vault, cloud-native solutions)
• SDLC tools (Maven, Gradle, Selenium, Ansible)
• Source code management (GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket)
• Artifact/dependency management (JFrog, Nexus)
• Containerisation (Kubernetes, Docker, Kaniko)
• Programming languages (Java/JavaScript/C#/Python)
• Scripting languages (Terraform, Bash, Ansible)
• Software engineering fundamentals (DRY, trunk-based development)
• Developer Desktops and tooling
• Gen AI concepts (GitHub Copilot, GitLab Duo, Q developer)
• Project delivery/coordination or support
• Software development, business/technical analysis, QA or governance
• PPM tools (Clarity, JIRA, Asana)

• Strong problem solving
• Clear communication with all levels
• Independent and team-oriented workflow
• IAC concepts
• Cloud basics across CSPs (AWS/Azure/GCP)
• DevOps/CI/CD/DevSecOps

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