Director, Network Automation

Role Summary: We are seeking a visionary and strategic Director of Network Automation to lead the transformation of our global network into a programmable, self healing, highly resilient platform, defining enterprise wide strategy and product roadmap for network automation across WAN, LAN, data centre, firewall, load balancer, and DDI systems.

Strategic Leadership & Product Vision

• Develop and own the multi year product strategy and roadmap for the Network Automation platform, aligning with business and technology objectives.
• Champion an "automation first" culture across the Network Products and Services organization with key stakeholders in Security, Cloud, and Application teams.

Team Building & Organizational Leadership

• Lead, mentor, and grow a high performing team of product owners, devops engineers and software developers.
• Manage resourcing (devops and developers) to meet the business needs for the development of network automation products.
• Foster a collaborative and innovative environment, breaking down silos between network engineering, architecture, and software development.

Platform Architecture & Governance

• Establish and govern the enterprise standards, frameworks, and best practices for network automation.
• Oversee the architecture of a scalable, secure, reusable automation platform using Java/Spring, C#, Python, Terraform, Git, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Drive the adoption of Infrastructure as Code and GitOps methodologies across the network estate.
• Finalize technical decisions and ensure the automation platform meets stringent reliability and security requirements.

Execution & Cross Functional Partnership

• Oversee the design, development, and deployment of robust automation solutions for network provisioning, migrations, configuration management, compliance auditing, and self healing remediation.
• Partner with the Cybersecurity team to embed security controls and compliance checks directly into the automation fabric.
• Ensure all automation code and processes are well documented, tested and version controlled.
• Communicate program progress, challenges and successes to executive leadership.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Progressive experience in network engineering, architecture, and automation, managing global technical teams.
• Proven experience in a financial services or service provider environment, understanding the criticality of low latency, high availability networks.
• Demonstrated experience designing and delivering a large scale network automation roadmap in a mission critical environment.
• Deep technical knowledge of WAN, LAN, Data Center, Firewall, Load Balancer, and DDI automation.
• Expert level proficiency in Python and Java/Spring, C#, Terraform, Git.
• Deep understanding of DevOps principles and CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI).
• Strong knowledge of network security principles and how to automate compliance.
• Excellent communication, presentation and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Experience

• Direct experience in a market venue, exchange, or high frequency trading environment.
• Experience with cloud networking and automation in AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Advanced certifications such as CCIE, JNCIE, or relevant cloud/security credentials.
• Experience with container networking (Kubernetes) and API driven infrastructure.
• Experience developing cross domain understanding and alignment between developers, architecture and end user stakeholders using Event Storming and End User story mapping techniques.

Career Stage: Director

Benefits

LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.

Equal Opportunity Statement

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. This means that we do not discriminate on the basis of anyone's race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. Conforming with applicable law, we can reasonably accommodate applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.