Software 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.

Analytics group is part of London Stock Exchange Group's Data & Analytics Technology division Analytics has established a very strong reputation for providing prudent and reliable analytic solutions to financial industries. With a strong presence in the North America financial markets and a rapidly growing in other markets, the group is now looking to increase its market share globally by building new capabilities as Analytics as Service - A one stop shop solution for all Analytics need through API and Cloud first approach.

Position Summary:

Analytics DevOps group is looking for highly motivated and skilled Software Release Engineer to join our dynamic team to help us build, deploy, and maintain our cloud and on-prem infrastructure and applications. You will be responsible for practicing and overseeing the software build and release process, ensuring the application and system delivered on time, within scope, and meet the quality standards. This role typically involves coordinating between different teams (engineering, development, operations, Quality assurance) and ensuring that all aspects of software deployment are well-organized and executed effectively.

Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities:

• Release planning, Build & Coordination: Define and manage release process, including maintaining release calendar, scheduling and coordinating release across the teams. Works closely with development and co-ordinate with other teams to ensure successful deployment with minimal disruptions.
• Build, deployment and configuration management: Manage deployment processes, including building of the code, automated (CI/CD) and non-automated deployments, ensuring proper configuration and the environment (development, pre-production, production) are setup correctly for each release.
• Issue resolution & Risk management: Identify and manage potential risk related to releases, and co-ordinate effort to resolve the issue or release blocker. Monitor and troubleshoot pre & post-release issues, and work with relevant team to resolve them quickly.
• Change Management & Reporting: Support and implement change management procedures to ensure software release follow established policies and compliance requirements. Track and report on release performance, including documented release notes, feature, bug fixes, known issues, and release metrics such as deployment frequency, success rate, and post-release issues.
• Quality Assurance and Continuous Improvement: Work with QA team ensure release meets the quality and performance standards and ensure that the regression and smoke test are properly conducted before release and continue to evaluate and improve the release process to increase the efficiency of and reduce risk through automation of manual process.

Essential Skills, Qualifications & Experience:

• A degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field is preferred
• 1-2 years of experience in software development, QA or IT operations
• Relevant certification (e.g: Agile or Scrum, ITIL, PMP) are plus
• Strong working experience with Linux/Unix systems
• Knowledge of release management tools: Jira, Gitlab, Octopus Deploy
• Knowledge of version control systems - Git, SVN, CVS
• Experience with CI/CD & Configuration Mgmt tools - GitLab, Jenkins, Ansible, Chef, Puppet
• Experience in scripting languages such as Bash, Python or Groovy.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) is huge plus
• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills to resolve complex problems in fast-paced environments, and ability to work in a team.
• Excellent communication skills for interacting with cross-functional teams and stakeholders
• Strong project management and organizational skills to prioritize tasks, manage multiple release simultaneously, and meet deadlines
• Working in Agile/Scrum environment is plus

Compensation/Benefits Information:

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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