Lead Software Engineer

About LSEG: The London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) is a global financial markets infrastructure and data provider headquartered in London, UK. Established in 2007, though its core institution—the London Stock Exchange—dates to 1801, LSEG plays a meaningful role in capital markets worldwide. It operates several trading venues, including the London Stock Exchange, Borsa Italiana, and Turquoise.

We are the leading source of intelligent information for the world’s businesses and professionals, providing customers with competitive advantage. Intelligent information is a unique synthesis of human intelligence, industry expertise and innovative technology that provides decision-makers with the knowledge to act, enabling them to make better decisions faster. We deliver this must-have insight to the financial and risk, legal, tax and accounting, intellectual property and science and media markets, powered by the world’s most trusted news organization.

Location : Bengaluru

Job Type : Full Time

Experience Level : 8+ years

Key Responsibilities:

• Take full ownership of solution architecture, design, and implementation using .NET, AWS, and Azure.
• Set technical standards and carry out standard practices across the engineering team.
• Lead by example—write production-quality code, perform deep code reviews, resolve the toughest technical challenges, and always focus on code quality, security, and performance.
• Deep expertise in AWS and Azure cloud services, infrastructure as code, and cloud-native architectures.
• Drive cloud adoption, automation, and DevOps maturity; eliminate bottlenecks and manual processes.
• Mentor, coach, and elevate the team—demand high performance and continuous improvement.
• Collaborate directly with business leaders to translate high-reaching goals into robust technical solutions.
• Proactively identify risks, anticipate scaling challenges, and deliver resilient, high-availability systems.

Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience in software development with .NET (C#, Entity Framework, LINQ).
• Solid understanding of software architecture, design patterns, and cloud security.
• Skilled in asynchronous programming and multithreading.
• Strong expertise in Azure (App Services, Functions, Azure SQL, Azure Service Bus etc.) and AWS (EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS).
• Experience with microservices, REST APIs, and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Proficient in DevOps tools (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins).
• Solid understanding of software architecture, design patterns, and cloud security.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills.
• Understanding of secure coding practices and backend security.
• Experience with logging, monitoring, and diagnostics in .NET applications.

Why Join Us?

• Work on a critical system with high visibility across the organization.
• Be part of a supportive and skilled team focused on operational excellence.
• Opportunity to lead technical improvements and influence support strategy.
• Competitive salary and benefits with learning and career development opportunities.
• Every day will bring new and exciting challenges on the job while you:
• Learn and use groundbreaking technologies.
• Apply sophisticated fix techniques to provide outstanding solutions to our customers’ individual needs.
• Interact with leading engineers around the world.

What Makes This Opportunity Exciting

• Lead with Impact: You won’t just maintain systems—you’ll drive improvements, influence architecture decisions, and help shape the support strategy for a business-critical data platform.
• Growth-Driven Culture: We’re committed to your professional development. You’ll have access to learning resources, certifications, and the opportunity to mentor others and grow into a leadership or architecture role.
• Modernization Journey: Be part of a team that’s modernizing its data estate. While we rely on SQL Server and SSIS today, we’re actively exploring cloud-native platforms—your voice will help guide that transition.
• Collaborative Environment: Work multi-functionally with guides in data engineering, DevOps, and analytics in a culture that values curiosity, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Tech that Matters: You’ll support systems that drive real-time business decisions, impact thousands of users, and power insights across departments.

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