Senior Lead Developer, Software Development

Senior Lead Developer, Software Development

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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. 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.

CDSClear is responsible for clearing Credit Default Swaps on European, US & Asian Indices, Single Names and Options for the members and clients currently registered for the service with LCH. The Service is one of the fastest growing streams in the LCH business lines and is looking to build on recent successes and further increase market share through modernising and enhancing our external facing application and API by delivering powerful and scalable functionality to meet evolving market demands.

The role is for a Senior Java Engineer working on the CDSClear IT platform handling the clearing, trade management and margining for credit derivative index, single name and option products. You will be working across the trade management stack working closely with business teams to deliver projects to facilitate the clearing of new product types, new business opportunities with innovative platform extensions or simplifying the overall architecture.

We are a London based team working in our hybrid model.

• Java Engineer within CDSClear Trade Management Development team involved with all aspects of SDLC
• Own the delivery of business requirements through to test and production release.
• Collaborate on key design decisions for the platform build out to meet business’ goals.
• Potential to lead the design & development of business facing initiatives lasting 3 - 6+ months.
• Third line system support, including participation in out-of-hours rota.

• Server‑Side Java Developer from a strong technical background with Spring Boot experience.
• Demonstrable enterprise software engineering with an understanding of working in a secure compute and regulated environment.
• Aptitude for understanding requirements to changes in clearing and trade management stack and able to implement and test successfully.
• Good awareness of the design, development and SDLC considerations required for development of Financial Services market infrastructure applications.
• Passion for following Dev Ops and CI/CD processes to deliver high quality and well tested software using frameworks such as Jenkins/Git Lab, Junit, Mockito, Cucumber etc.
• Good understanding of software architecture principles and their application.
• Effective communication within both the development and support teams.
• Ownership mindset – working with external teams e.g., DBAs, Security to progress end‑to‑end solutions.
• Keen to balance business delivery and technical improvement; will have a drive to improve quality and productivity of delivery and be able to dissect systems to incrementally deliver significant system improvements with this in mind.
• Knowledge of JMS and experience with Active
  
  MQ / IBM MQ.
• Knowledge of modern source code management using git.
• Strong familiarity with Java development tool chains including Maven and Intelli
  
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• Team player with a desire to work in a self‑directed business focused development team.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to influence infrastructure teams to achieve delivery.

• Familiarity with Credit Derivative products.
• Familiarity with AWS Cloud services like EC2, S3, Lambda, EKS.
• Deployment automation using tools such as Ansible;…