Tech Lead, London Stock Exchange
Site Reliability Engineering
Office located in Chapel Qtr, Nottingham
Stock exchange in the City of London
Posted today
Stock exchange in the City of London
1001+ employees
Posted today
Office located in Chapel Qtr, Nottingham
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make things happen, out there in the real world, where it matters.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years in production operations, SRE, or DevOps roles, with at least 3+ years in a people management capacity
- Proven experience managing cloud-native services on Azure and AWS, including: Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, Application Gateway, Key Vault, Storage, DNS, Load Balancer, Virtual Machines, Azure Machine Learning, Sentinel
- AWS Lambda, ECS, RDS, CloudWatch
- Strong understanding of SRE principles (SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, incident response)
- Hands-on experience with container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker)
- Proficiency in CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, GitHub Actions, Jenkins)
- Familiarity with observability platforms (Datadog, BigPanda, OpenTelemetry)
- Experience working with identity platforms and/or fraud detection systems
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills; ability to influence across technical and business domains
- Strong analytical mindset with a focus on measurable outcomes and continuous improvement
- Empathetic and inclusive leader, committed to team well-being and growth
- Strategic thinker with a bias for action and accountability
- Calm and structured under pressure; able to lead teams through high-stakes incidents
- Passionate about engineering excellence, automation, and reliability
- Strong collaborator who builds trust across teams and geographies
- Committed to continuous learning and knowledge sharing
What the job involves
- We are seeking an accomplished and forward-thinking technical leader to join our Risk Intelligence organisation as the Tech Lead – Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) for the Risk Screening Product Line
- Based in Nottingham, UK, this role will lead the reliability engineering function for critical Screening applications supporting the EMEA region
- The successful candidate will be accountable for ensuring the availability, scalability, performance, and security of business-critical platforms while driving operational resilience and service excellence across a complex, cloud-native technology landscape
- As a key technical leader, you will combine deep expertise in Site Reliability Engineering, cloud operations, and modern software delivery practices with a passion for building high-performing engineering teams
- You will lead reliability strategies, incident management, automation initiatives, and continuous improvement efforts, while partnering closely with product, engineering, and business stakeholders to align technology outcomes with organisational objectives
- This role offers an exciting opportunity to influence engineering culture, mentor and develop talent, and establish best-in-class operational practices within a growing and innovative UK-based technology organisation
- Technical Ownership for Identity & Fraud Platforms:
- Lead 24×7 reliability operations for Screening services, ensuring uptime, performance, and compliance across WC1 and World Check verify Applications
- Define and implement SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets; maintain reliability scorecards and drive improvements through engineering backlogs
- Act as Major Incident Commander during critical outages; lead blameless post-incident reviews and ensure learnings are institutionalized
- Drive automation-first mindset across incident response, deployment, compliance, and observability
- Collaborate with product and engineering teams to embed non-functional requirements and secure-by-design principles into delivery pipelines
- Co-own cloud reliability roadmap with platform teams; standardize tooling for observability, ITSM, and incident communication
- Ensure DR readiness, runbook quality, and resilience patterns are consistently applied across services
- People Leadership:
- Lead and mentor a team of SRE engineers, fostering a culture of ownership, learning, and engineering excellence
- Drive career development, performance management, and technical capability growth across the team
- Collaborate with HR and Talent teams to build local hiring pipelines and support workforce planning
- Promote well-being and psychological safety within the team; ensure compliance with health and safety standards
- Represent Nottingham site in global SRE forums; contribute to offshore strategy and location planning
- Partner with vendors and staffing partners to manage workforce augmentation and ensure delivery quality
- Support BCP/DR planning and ensure site-level operational readiness for critical events
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.
Over the last few years, 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 exploring new technologies and secondary market options for the platform.
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Insights
21% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
Leadership
David Schwimmer
(CEO)Prior to joining LSEG in 2018, David was a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs for over 20 years.
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