Job Description

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. Its how weve 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.As part of the Team, the new resource will support at 360\xc2\xb0 database layer of several services on different technologies, participate into international projects and have a chance to influence current and future technology choices.There will be occasional weekend work required as Saturdays are used to test and roll forward software and cloud infra releases.Key Responsibilities:Lead, develop, support and maintain critical database applications
Team management; demand management, maintaining a shift and on-call rota, regular one to ones, team meetings, annual appraisals
Gain an in-depth knowledge of the units processes and ensure team compliance with these processes with solid focus on driving down incidents and problems while delivering changes
Advocate and promote Engineering principles, drive quality standards across the database suite
Have familiarity with security and operational responsibilities
Promoting and driving innovation by actively advocating new tools, processes and technical developments to aid CI/CD
Drive automation as much as possible
Proactively identify operational and project risks. Provide short term solutions whilst tracking long term resolution.
Ensure compliance with risk and security policies
Partner with the business and technology team members
Act as operational SME for the product while also gaining a solid understanding of the underlying database infrastructure and operations/observability toolset
Collaborate with the architecture teams to provide insight into operational impacts.
Represent the team at unit meetings such as the CAB, incident review, problem review.
Writing and maintaining support documentation, technical specifications and user guides.Required Skills:EssentialDemonstrable experience with engineering / DEVOPS principles
Knowledge of git concepts, CI/CD, release strategy, branching strategy, and development / release pipelines.
Able to calmly navigate and work through and resolve engineering and Service issues
Assist and guide the team on deployment practices, while implementing improvements to enable further automation of deployments.
Good communication skills and the proven track record of working effectively with all organisational levels
Continuously adopt a pragmatic, flexible and adaptable approach.
Hands on experience of automation
Experience with scripting languages; Bash, Groovy, YAML and/or Python
Use of CICD tooling such as GIT/Ansible/Jenkins/Nexus/PreferredFinancial services experience
Oracle / MSSQL / Postgres /database querying
Broad Infrastructure knowledge (Networks, Database, Web, SAN/NAS)
Use of JIRA / Kanban to build epics, stories, backlog prioritisation, planning, reporting.
SCOM/SCORCH, Control-M, BigPanda, Service Now, DataDog
Understanding of Agile software engineering principles (Dev/ QA / Deployment etc)
ITIL qualifiedBenefits: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 employees potential through personal development through a wide range of learning tools both formal and informal.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 anyones 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.Please take a moment to read this carefully, as it describes what personal information London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) (we) may hold about you, what its used for, and how its obtained, .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 anyones 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.Please take a moment to read this carefully, as it describes what personal information London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) (we) may hold about you, what its used for, and how its obtained, .If you are submitting as a Recruitment Agency Partner, it is essential and your responsibility to ensure that candidates applying to LSEG are aware of this privacy notice.

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