Principal Engineer - Post Trade Solutions - LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) : Job Details

Role Profile

The successful candidate for the Principal Engineer - Post Trade Solutions role, will form part of a team building a complex and from grounds up new cloud-based critical market infrastructure service in a bold new venture part of LSEG. This exciting opening requires a candidate who takes great pride in delivering excellence with excellent logical and technical skills and a can-do mindset combined with a helpful mentality, and a wish to play a critical role in forming and growing a new business.

Key Responsibilities

Build, deliver and maintain the multiple components of the Trade Agent platform ensuring timely delivery of work items. Resolve a high impact problem through in-depth evaluation of complex architectures, business processes and industry standards. Serve as advisor to develop highly resilient and future proof solutions. Contribute to research and suggest for new projects for the Trade Agent platform. Willing to take new responsibilities based on projects need and circumstances. Contribute and guide the program initiatives in engineering excellence and learning and development. Ensure work is well documented and communicated with the team and our customer with their expectations proactively handled. Be challenging and questioning while ensuring trust and respect are maintained and a one team mentality is promoted.

Key Skills and Experience

Microservices architecture

You have excellent understanding of microservices designs, its pitfalls, and industry leading practices.

You have knowledge of Domain Driven Design and event driven architecture.

You have experience of working with containerised and orchestrated services using Docker and Kubernetes.

You are familiar with the concept of service mesh such as Istio.

You have built and maintained dev-ops pipelines for delivering applications ideally using GitLab.

You used shift left testing principles and frameworks using technology such as Junit, Cucumber, Gherkin, Contract Test (PACT), TestContainers or other similar technology.

You have worked with eventing and messaging infrastructure such as Kafka and MQ

Advanced Java or Scala programming

You have strong experience in Object Oriented Programming

You have a strong grasp of Java 17 and higher including advanced features and have used Spring Boot

You are proficiency in developing and delivering enterprise grade Java applications.

You have strong experience in functional programming and object-oriented programming. You have a deep understanding of Scala including Akka (for building concurrent, distributed, and resilient event-driven applications), Play Framework (for web applications), Cats/Scalaz (for functional programming abstractions) You are proficiency in developing and delivering enterprise grade Scala applications.

You have experience of working with data structures, algorithms, concurrency & multi-threading.

Database Management

You have strong SQL knowledge and experience working with relational DBs, such as Postgres.

You have a working knowledge of object storages such as AWS S3

You have knowledge of Database version control tools such as Flyway and Liquibase

Cloud Architecture

You have worked on major public cloud preferably AWS.

You have used cloud-based technology like AWS Aurora, MSK, S3, IAM

You have a basic understanding of cloud networking.

Agile ways of working

You understand and believe in the ethos of agile working.

You have experience of working in Scrum/Kanban model.

You can participate and actively collaborate and contribute to sprint ceremonies including Product Backlog Refinement

You have the experience of collaborating with multi-functional teams in scaled agile setups.

The following skills are a nice to have but not essential.

You have developed applications using Scala or have developed Web applications using ReactJS.

Key Behaviours

• You have demonstrated a keen focus on delivery excellence, meeting commitments and managing expectations.
• You can demonstrate ability to take on responsibility and be accountable for it.
• You can work well within a team, is able to be helpful and collaborate with each other for the good of the team
• You are able to work with product, architecture and delivery to understand their requirements in depth and translate that into robust timely delivered applications.
• You can be critical and challenging while maintain respect.
• You understand the importance of communication within a team and have championed it in the past.
• You have a desire to learn, improve and innovate.
• You have very high development standards, especially for code quality, code reviews, unit testing, continuous integration, and deployment.
• You are an engineer at heart that enjoys working with various technologies have an appetite for taking on challenges and maximising new technologies while minimising complexity.

Compensation/Benefits Information (New York applicants only):

LSEG is committed to offering competitive Compensation and Benefits. The anticipated base salary for this position is $156,300 - $290,500. Please be aware base salary ranges may vary by geographic location, city and state. In addition to our offered base salary, this role is eligible for our Annual Incentive Plan (AIP/ bonus plan ). Target AIP rates will be commensurate with role level and posted career stage. Individual salary will be reflective of job related knowledge, skills and equivalent experience. LSEG roles (excluding internships and part-time roles of less than 20 hours per week) are typically eligible for inclusion in our LSEG Benefits program, which includes offerings of: Annual Wellness Allowance, Paid time-off, Medical, Dental, Vision, Flex Spending & Health Savings Options, Prescription Drug plan, 401(K) Savings Plan and Company match. LSEG's Benefits plan also includes basic life insurance, disability benefits, emergency backup dependent care, adoption assistance commuter assistance etc.

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.

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