Senior Technical Lead - Real Time Platform

FTSE Russell (LSEG) is building the real time platform that powers global index calculation across equity, fixed income, and multi asset markets. We're looking for a hands on Senior Technical Lead to modernise and scale this cloud native, low latency system at global scale. This is an individual contributor leadership role: you'll lead through architecture, engineering quality, and delivery - designing resilient, event driven systems, shaping technical direction, and raising standards across the team.

• Design and build real time, event driven systems that calculate and distribute index data with low latency and high reliability.
• Own platform architecture and engineering quality, leading through delivery, code review, and clear technical direction.
• Scale and operate a cloud native platform on AWS, ensuring resilience, observability, and performance under real market conditions.
• Define and evolve data models and pipelines for market and reference data, focusing on accuracy, auditability, and control.
• Drive engineering standards and modernisation, using AI assisted tooling and automation to improve delivery speed without compromising quality.

• Development: Java, C#, Python, SQL, OpenAPI.
• Cloud: AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, S3, SQS, SNS, Aurora, and others as required).
• Databases: Sybase ASE, Sybase IQ, Aurora Postgres.
• IaC and CI/CD: Terraform, AWS CLI, GitLab.
• AI Development: Agentic AI tooling (GitHub Copilot, Claude Code).

• Strong background in software engineering, designing and building distributed, event driven systems.
• Proven ability to own system design and architecture, balancing performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Hands on experience building and operating cloud native applications on AWS.
• Solid understanding of data modelling and relational databases in production systems.
• Experience with infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform) and modern CI/CD practices.
• Demonstrated ability to lead through engineering quality - code reviews, testing strategy, and raising technical standards.

• Experience working on low latency or real time systems.
• Exposure to financial services, market data, or index products.
• Practical use of AI assisted development tooling to improve engineering productivity.

• Build with purpose - start with why and define the problem before reaching for a solution.
• Customer driven - work backwards from client needs and build products to address real world problems.
• Technically courageous - go beyond your comfort zone and push boundaries to deliver excellence.
• Learn and be curious - continuously seek feedback, learn in formal and informal settings, actively share knowledge.
• Act as owners - operate as though it is your business, make thoughtful trade offs, and deliver long term value.
• Lead with data - validate assumptions, stay close to the details, act decisively.
• Build responsibly, deliver incrementally - look for small opportunities and milestones to build ambitious solutions.
• AI native by default - use AI tooling as a force multiplier, frame problems clearly, validate continually, and own the output.

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

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