We are seeking a Senior Development Manager to help lead Risk Entity Screening, our flagship product that is aimed at protecting our customers from crime, corruption and other business risks. This is a very exciting opportunity to join a business in an innovative and constantly evolving industry.
We need somebody who can help each individual team member to perform to their optimum ability. You will work closely with the Directors, Architects and Developers to release high-quality software and deliver value to the business.
You will be able to understand system performance and scaling cloud applications, crafting for required performance, diagnosing performance problems in the architecture and in the code. And understand how to design systems for availability - with automated failover, and for scale.
Our primary goal in World Check one in the next two years will be to evolve the architecture into a Cloud Native architecture, this role requires a balance of keeping touch with new technologies and how they will tackle our problems along with an awareness of what problems they may introduce to our ecosystem.
Job description
The goals of this role are:
- Lead the development of the Risk Screening Products and services.
- Ensure high levels of service, quality, security and performance are consistently met. Where necessary, target debt in these areas and prioritise appropriately alongside feature delivery.
- Drive innovations to lead growing volumes that reduce cost and TTM .
- Support business teams for client presentations and strategy updates
- Drive innovation and differentiation to better address current and future needs within the Risk domain.
- Drive organisational efficiencies in alignment with corporate strategies around headcount, location and maximising of corporate assets.
- Drive continued program of service improvement for the performance and availability of Risk Screening products and handle changing expectations around security, privacy, and data residency.
- Drive teams to deliver quality products on time, following Agile software development practices.
- Foster a high-performance management team through coaching, engagement, and performance management.
- Cultivate a culture of quality, accountability, teamwork, continuous improvement, and data-driven decision making.
- Constantly inspect and adapt processes and standards to meet customer demands.
- Work with all business areas to target shared pain points and maximise the efficiency of your engineering team.
Qualifications
Knowledge, Skills, Experience and Attitude:
You are:
- A highly innovative individual with technical skills, excellent communication skills and global management experience
- An energetic team player who can be effective across a matrixed organization
- A leader by example who demonstrate consistent high standards and can empower your teams to do the same.
- Have a consistent track record of performance and be tenacious in your own development.
- Enjoy driving the creation of technical solutions that meet our customer needs and be at ease leading the delivery of making those solutions happen in collaboration with business unit technology teams and our own engineering teams.
- Take pride in delivering solutions and constantly looking for opportunities to innovate and improve.
- Understand the importance of building strong partnerships internally and externally and acting with integrity to uphold our cultural values.
You have:
- Degree level qualification, preferably in Computer Science or related field
- 10+ years of experience running large scale global systems and teams.
- Experience with Java, and Cloud Natives technologies
- Experience building high performance scalable solutions.
- Experience running geographically dispersed teams, in a matrixed organization.
- Comfortable working in a multi-location multi time zone environment, with remote stakeholders and dependent teams
- Strong communication and presentation skills including the ability to build relationships and optimally communicate across all management and organizational levels.
- Proven organizational skills; Ability to multi-task; Value and detail oriented with demonstrated ability to deliver on commitments.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Accomplished at relationship building across business, technology, finance, and other key stakeholder domains.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, sometimes stressful environment leading multiple projects with strict deadlines.
- Experience of working with ML/AI technologies would be beneficial.
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. You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas and are committed to sustainability across our global business. You will experience the critical role we have in helping to re-engineer the financial ecosystem to support and drive sustainable economic growth. Together, we are aiming to achieve this growth by accelerating the just transition to net zero, enabling growth of the green economy and creating inclusive economic opportunity.
LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.
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.
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