Director of Engineering, London Stock Exchange
Stock exchange in the City of London
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Stock exchange in the City of London
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To make things happen, out there in the real world, where it matters.
Role
Who you are
- Computer science, software engineering or relevant technical background required
- Extensive professional experience in leading, shaping and evolving effective engineering organisations
- Good knowledge and experience navigating emerging technology domains (e.g. DLT, web3)
- Commercial awareness and knowledge of financial services, financial markets and market structure, as well as the unique challenges faced by regulated players in the financial sector
- Excellent communicator, with the ability to interact with stakeholders across business & technology at all levels, both internally and externally
- Strong empathy and a dedication to trust & purpose-building, in-pursuit of developing self-empowered teams
- Vision and creativity: Ability to foresee roadblocks, conceive intelligent solutions and contribute innovative ideas, as well as manage change and ambiguity effectively and confidently
- Innovation: An interest in new technology and the ability to conceptualise and work with early-stage ideas
- Leadership: Ability to lead ownership of deliverables and work with stakeholders across the business to progress and achieve the relevant goals to ensure development, deployment & delivery is successful
- Strong experience leading engineering organisations
- Strong expertise shaping proven software development lifecycle approaches, practises and methodologies
- Strong knowledge of programming (e.g. Java, C++, C#, Python or similar)
- Strong knowledge of cloud infrastructure and cloud-native solution design
- Appreciation of blockchain and DLT technology (preferably EVM / web3)
- Solid understanding of information security in the cloud as well as modern DevSecOps practices
- Knowledge of modern agile approaches such as flow metrics and value streams
What the job involves
- Digital Market Infrastructure (DMI) requires an experienced Director of Engineering to steer the scaling and maturity building of the DMI engineering organisation
- Taking responsibility for all aspects DMI agile build and delivery, the ideal candidate should have strong experience shaping effective large & complex, self-empowered, multi-layered team topologies, with a strong appreciation for operating within a forward-thinking, emerging technology-centric domain (e.g. DLT, web3)
- A thoughtful, people leadership approach is very important, with experience building customer-obsessed values, strong client-product alignment, with a solid foundational understand of modern agile approaches (e.g. flow metrics, value streams etc)
- Shaping & guiding optimal & proven topologies of multi-disciplinary engineering teams within DMI
- Evolving and maintaining a strong talent strategy to recruit the best to shape DMI products and services
- Steering and evolving strongly egalitarian, consensus-driven decision-making across team, discipline and functional leads across DMI engineering to ensure a focus on continuous improvement preserves collective ownership, purpose and accountability
- Ensuring discipline and alignment is fostered across the teams through guiding standardisation, governance and the right balance of controls
- Shape and evolve the right proven processes, metrics and measures to ensure development reporting transparency can be provided to the business
- Guide the Infrastructure (DevSecOps) areas to ensure the DMI SDLC, infrastructure deployments & integrations are shaped, optimised, expanded and matured
- Steering and shaping the evolution of technology operations
- Shaping & evolve the cultural values and mindset of the engineering organisation, aligned to customer-obsession
- Staying abreast of best of breed thinking on proven modern approaches, methodologies and practises around agile & effective engineering delivery
Salary benchmarks
Our take
The London Stock Exchange is one of the world’s oldest stock exchanges, with a history dating back over 300 years. It operates as a part of LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group), one of the world’s leading providers of financial markets infrastructure, as a marketplace to enable stock brokers and traders to buy and sell stocks, bonds, and other securities.
The London Stock Exchange has lived through a stream of innovations; from telegraph and telephone, to the Market Price Display System, automatic trade matching, and the digitisation of issuer services. In 2019 it acquired Refinitiv, a financial information company, and in doing so became a global financial news and data business.
Most recently, the London Stock Exchange has made moves to support the evolution of private markets, and further build its presence in this space. It partnered with Floww, a platform that connects investors with private companies, with aims to launch a private primary capital raising facility, as well as explore new technologies and secondary market options for the platform.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
21% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Dec 2019
$27m
LATE VC
Feb 2018
$27m
LATE VC
Total funding: $53.9m
Company benefits
- Hybrid working options
- Healthcare
- Retirement planning
- Paid volunteering days
- Wellbeing initiatives
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
Leadership
David Schwimmer
(CEO, not founder)Was Managing Director at Goldman Sachs for 20 years.
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