Lead Java Engineer

About Us:

LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is more than a diversified global financial markets infrastructure and data business. We are dedicated, open-access partners with a dedication to excellence in delivering the services our customers expect from us. With extensive experience, deep knowledge and worldwide presence across financial markets, we enable businesses and economies around the world to fund innovation, manage risk and create jobs. It’s how we’ve contributed to supporting the financial stability and growth of communities and economies globally for more than 300 years. Through a comprehensive suite of trusted financial market infrastructure services – and our open-access model – we provide the flexibility, stability and trust that enable our customers to pursue their ambitions with confidence and clarity.

LSEG is headquartered in the United Kingdom, with significant operations in 70 countries across EMEA, North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific. We employ 25,000 people globally, more than half located in Asia Pacific.

We're proud to be recognised as a Great Place to Work in 2024.

Role Summary:

Do you have a passion for technology? Do you want to learn and make a difference in financial markets infrastructure? We are building a new engineering team, and we are looking for passionate, hands-on technologists to help us lead the way. CDSClear IT is the team behind the technology powering CDSClear - a critical clearing service within the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG). We are looking for a highly skilled Java Engineer to analyse requirements, design, develop and deliver high quality and well tested Java server side solutions. The role is part of the build out of a new team based in Bucharest. The new team will collaborate with colleagues in London and Paris to deliver innovative solutions.

What You’ll Be Doing:

Take ownership within the end-to-end software delivery lifecycle, using Agile or traditional methodologies as needed.

Engineering of Java applications, their tests and supporting infrastructure within development environments.

Analysis of business and functional requirements to design solutions.

Collaborate with global teams on design of application change or that of the supporting infrastructure.

Automation, from testing to deployment, to ensure speed and quality.

Work within a regulated financial environment, with a strong focus on cybersecurity.

Occasional out of hours support for releases or incidents.

What You’ll Bring:

5+ years of similar experience

Experienced with the design and development of Java-based backend services (Spring Boot, microservices architecture) using build tools such as Maven or Gradle.

Exhibit the skills required to engineer services configured to meet corporate standards including those for resilience and information security.

Experience using Ansible to configure and deploy applications.

Linux skills suitable for managing software and debugging issues.

Experience engineering pipelines in CI/CD tools to execute tests and/or deployments.

It would help us if you have:

Intermediate level frontend (React and UI/UX) technology skills - e.g. React.js, Typescript, HTML5, CSS3 etc.

Practical experience with Testing frameworks (e.g. Cypress) for automated testing of Web Applications.

Experience of using AI tools to improve development productivity.

Ability to design and develop Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform

Engineered scalable and resilient Kubernetes clusters and supported the configuration of the hosted containerised applications

Familiarity with code and dependency scanning toolsets for SCM, container scanning and static analysis.

Used Artifactory as part of previous SDLC experience.

Experience defining Infrastructure As Code for AWS services such as the following: EC2, RDS, EKS, Lambda, S3, EFS, Managed Kafka, ELB, Route 53 plus other networking services.

Experience of using Terraform in a corporate environment executed via CI/CD pipelines.

Benefits:

We are looking for intellectually curious people, passionate about the bigger picture of how technology industry is evolving, ready to ask difficult questions and deal with complicated scenarios! If you are creative and a problem solver, this is the place to be as will be supporting you to fast-forward your career!

We maximise each employee’s potential through personal development through a wide range of learning tools both formal and informal. We believe in remunerating our people with competitive salaries and a range of attractive benefits such as:

• 25 days’ holiday per year
• 1 additional day off for your Birthday
• Annual wellness allowance
• Share Purchase Plan
• Medical Health Insurance
• Medical Subscription (preventive medical services)
• Life insurance
• Pillar 3 Private Pension
• Meal Vouchers
• Flexible Benefits
• Bookster
• Volunteering Events
• All LSEG colleagues with at least one year’s continuous service, who become parents, are now entitled to at least 26 weeks’ paid leave, and the option to return to work on a phased basis, in relation with specific company’s policy and guidelines

Career Stage:

Manager

London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) Information:

Join us and be part of a team that values innovation, quality, and continuous improvement. If you're ready to take your career to the next level and make a significant impact, we'd love to hear from you.

LSEG is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider. Our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.

Our purpose is the foundation on which our culture is built. Our values of Integrity, Partnership, Excellence and Change underpin our purpose and set the standard for everything we do, every day. They go to the heart of who we are and guide our decision making and everyday actions.

Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 65 countries. However, we will value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce.

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