Senior Technical Lead, Index Distribution Engineering

Company: London Stock Exchange Group
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Location: London
Job Description:

Overview

In this role you will help build and scale next-generation distribution for index products, delivering data across APIs, cloud platforms, files, and AI-native protocols. You will ensure reliability, security, and data quality while shaping cloud-native infrastructure. You will lead through architectural clarity, code review, and hands-on delivery in an AI-first engineering environment.

Pay / Benefits

  • healthcare
  • retirement planning
  • paid volunteering days
  • wellbeing initiatives

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and scale cloud-native distribution infrastructure with high resilience and performance
  • Own system design and data modelling for sophisticated, multi-schema relational databases
  • Develop and maintain infrastructure as code for reproducible, version-controlled, secure environments
  • Design and implement test strategies across integration, contract, and end-to-end validation
  • Build secure, well-documented APIs and data delivery services for institutional clients
  • Lead technical direction through architectural guidance, code review, and pairing
  • Collaborate with product, operations, and client-facing teams to translate requirements into robust solutions

Key requirements

  • 7+ years of professional software engineering experience
  • Strong expertise in system design, distributed systems, and relational data modelling
  • Solid experience building and operating cloud-native applications on AWS
  • Experience writing and maintaining infrastructure as code (Terraform or equivalent)
  • Experience designing test strategies at multiple levels of the testing pyramid
  • Proficiency with AI development tooling and using AI to accelerate delivery while maintaining quality
  • Strong debugging skills across distributed systems
  • Basic understanding of financial services or capital markets
  • Effective collaboration and ability to communicate technical decisions to non-technical audiences
  • collaboration
  • communication to non-technical audiences
  • leadership through architectural guidance
  • TypeScript
  • Python
  • SQL

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Posted: October 1st, 2026