Director, Engineering DI&F
LSEG
GBR-Nottingham-1 Chapel Qtr, Unknown
Full-Time
Competitive
RemoteDirector
Why this role
We’re building next-generation Risk Intelligence platforms that enable customers to make trusteddecisions atscale, in real time. As a Director of Engineering, you will define and drive the technology and product engineering strategy across a portfolio of products—owning outcomes from 0→1 innovation through 1→n scale and platformization.
You will operate as a business and technology leader, shaping long-term direction, building high-performing organizations, and ensuring that our systems are resilient, secure, cost-efficient, and aligned to evolving customer and regulatory needs.
You will move beyond team-level execution to org-level leadership, setting the bar for engineering excellence, talent development, and cross-functional impact.
What you’ll do
Define and execute engineering strategy: Own the multi-year vision and roadmap for Risk Intelligence products and platforms, aligning with customer value, market trends, and business outcomes while evolving products into scalable platforms.
Drive innovation at scale: Oversee the lifecycle from 0→1 experimentation to enterprise-scale platforms, ensuring strong problem framing, rapid validation, and continuous evolution to meet global, multi-tenant needs.
Lead through leaders: Build and scale a high-performing leadership bench, fostering accountability, empowerment, and a culture of ownership and continuous improvement.
Deliverengineering excellence: Establish standards for architecture, reliability, observability, and operational maturity; drive SLO-based practices and continuous improvement using data (e.g., DORA metrics).
Own business and operational outcomes: Ensure predictable delivery, cost efficiency, and ROI; lead portfolio planning and prioritization while balancing speed, quality, security, and regulatory requirements.
Architect for scale and flexibility: Guide strategic decisions on platforms, data, APIs, event-driven systems, and cloud; drive build vs. buy decisions and ensure long-term scalability and interoperability.
Influence across the organization: Partner with senior stakeholders and represent engineering in executive forums to align with regulatory, risk, and business priorities.
Build a high-performance culture: Promote innovation, inclusion, and accountability while advancing engineering productivity, developer experience, and talent engagement.
What you’ll bring
12–18+ yearsof experience in software engineering, with5–8+ years in engineering leadership roles
Proven success leadingmultiple teams or organizations, delivering complex distributed systems at scale
Strong track record ofdefining and executing technology strategy aligned to business outcomes
Experience scaling products fromearly-stage innovation to enterprise platforms
Deep expertise inmodernarchitectures(cloud-native, APIs, event-driven systems, data platforms)
Demonstrated ability tolead through leaders, influencing across organizational boundaries
Strong business acumen with experience managingbudgets, cost optimization, and investment tradeoffs
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, includingexecutive-level influence
How we’ll measure success
Business & product impact: Revenue growth, customer adoption, retention, satisfaction, and faster time-to-first-value(TTFV) toward strong product-market fit
Engineering excellence: Improved DORA metrics (lead time, deployment frequency, reliability), high service reliability, and consistent SLO attainment
Organizational health: Strength of leadership bench, effective succession planning, and strong employee engagement, growth, and retention
Operational efficiency:Optimized engineering costs (cloud, tooling), with predictable, high-quality portfolio delivery
Technologies you and the organization may use
Backends & APIs:.NET, Java, Go, Node.js; REST/gRPC; event-driven architectures
Frontends:React, Next.js, design systems
Cloud & Platform:Azure/AWS, containers, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code
Data & Observability:Distributed data systems, streaming, metrics/logs/traces
We continuously evolve our stack based on customer value, scalability, and operability—not fixed preferences.
Ways of working
Hybrid collaboration with focused in-person sessions forstrategy, architecture, and high-impact alignment moments
Emphasis onautonomy, clarity, and outcomes over process
Leadership principles (Director-level expectations)
Thinkinsystems:Optimize for org and platform outcomes, not just team outputs
Lead through influence:Align diverse stakeholders toward a common vision
Data-driven decisions:Use metrics, customer insights, and experimentation to guide strategy
Own the business outcome:Engineering is accountable for both technology and business impact
Career Stage:
DirectorLondon Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) Information:
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