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Manager, Data Engineering Lead – SwapClear and Listed Rates
LCH Ltd, London | London Stock Exchange Group
About the Role
LCH Ltd is an international multi-asset class central counterparty (CCP), part of the London Stock Exchange Group. serving a broad range of exchanges and OTC trading platforms, providing critical risk management services across global financial markets. This role offers an opportunity to work on one of the most critical technology functions in global finance, delivering a cloud-native, Snowflake-based data platform for regulatory reporting, risk visibility, membership reporting, and internal analytics.
LCH SwapClear & Listed Rates is a flagship business, the global leader in IRS (Interest Rate Swap) clearing, handling:
- ~9 million new trades annually
- Over $3.5 trillion notional traded daily
- 60+ member bank groups and 1,000+ clients
- Advanced daily post-trade processing features like margin optimisations
- 90% market share in global cleared interest rate swaps
Key Responsibilities
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Technical Ownership:
- Drive the end-to-end Reporting & Data Analytics platform for SwapClear and Listed Rates.
- Ensure technical direction and governance alignment across data lineage, controls, and service resilience.
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Strategic Migration & Transformation:
- Lead the safe migration from legacy Oracle/Informatica to a cloud-native, Snowflake architecture.
- Accountable for legacy decommissioning and platform stability during and post-transformation.
- Design, implement, and oversee a multi-year phased delivery to meet systemically important market requirements.
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Platform Evolution:
- Define and drive the Strategic Cloud Data Platform’s evolution, embedding high availability, performance, resilience, and security.
- Work with Product Owners, Delivery Leads, and Quality Engineering to ensure standards and outcomes.
- Collaborate with Group Architecture Authority, Data Governance, and business partners for alignment.
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- Stakeholder & Team Leadership:
- Build and develop a senior engineering team with a focus on professional growth.
- Establish technical standards and drive adoption of modern testing, automation, and observability practices (e.g., Datadog, cloud-native practices).
- Represent engineering excellence as a senior technical advisor to governance and strategy bodies.
Requirements
Essential Criteria
- 15+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, including 5+ years as a technical lead with a track record of high-quality enterprise-scale solutions.
- Deep expertise in cloud-first data architectures:
- Snowflake implementations (or similar platforms).
- ELT (Extract, Load, Transform) methodologies (pascal emphasis:
dbt). - Data warehousing and lake solutions (SQL, PL/SQL, Bash, Python).
- Data modelling & architecture:
- Incremental, immutable, versioned architectures.
- Enterprise-scale governance, lineage, and controls frameworks.
- Legacy migration experience preferably with Informatica PowerCenter or equivalent tools.
- Data governance and regulatory compliance expertise (critical for a systemically important market infrastructure).
- Senior leadership to influence architectural and governance discussions with credibility.
- Passionate about data-driven decision-making with ** metrics-centric problem-solving skills**.
- AI/ML application experience in data engineering & migration contexts.
Preferred/Desired
- Background in regulated, high-availability environments (financial markets, critical infrastructure).
- Education: Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent.
- Hands-on experience with:
- On-prem and cloud technologies (e.g., Snowflake, Azure/GCP/AWS).
- Real-time & batch process orchestration (e.g., Apache Airflow, Kubernetes).
- Observability tools (Datadog, Splunk, Prometheus).
- Financial industry exposure (clearing, risk systems, regulatory reporting).
- Agile framework experience (Scrum, Kanban).
- Cybersecurity knowledge with a secure-by-design mindset.
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About LSEG
London Stock Exchange Group’s vision: "To be the most trusted expert in global financial markets". A diversified financial infrastructure provider operating across four core divisions:
- Capital Markets: Equity, bond, and derivatives markets.
- Post Trade: Risk management and clearing services.
- Global Technology Services: Trading platforms & capital markets software.
- Information Services: Real-time & reference data solutions.
LSEG operates in a fast-paced, regulated environment, prioritising availability, efficiency, fairness, and market integrity. As a systemically important player, the Group upholds trust, transparency, and sustainability—aligning its own reputation with the resilience of global markets.
Our values (Integrity, Partnership, Excellence, and Change) define our purpose: Driving financial stability, empowering economies, and helping customers achieve sustainable growth.
Culture & Commitment
At LSEG, we:
- Build a collaborative, innovative culture encouraging new ideas.
- Support diversity and inclusion, welcoming candidates with unique backgrounds (sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, etc.).
- Offer tailored benefits including: healthcare, retirement planning, flex working, wellness & sustainability initiatives, volunteering opportunities.
Current open to external applications: Submit your CV/resume or apply via the [LSEG Careers Portal](see hyperlink referenced).
For more about our commitment to sustainability, charity work, or culture, explore:
- *[LSEG Purpose & Values](website link)
- *[London LCH SwapClear](snapshot link)
Ready to lead a technology transformation? Apply today to help shape the future of financial data infrastructure.
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