LSEG
Senior News Engineering Manager
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Senior News Engineering Manager
Senior Engineering Manager — News Engineering @ LSEG
Help us shape the future of real-time news delivery and join a team powering the heartbeat of global information! LSEG’s News Engineering group is looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to evolve our News platform, delivering enriched, structured breaking news with metadata, entities, and context to customers worldwide in sub-second time. If you're motivated by high-performance systems, real-world impact, and incorporating modern engineering practices in a dynamic and forward-thinking environment—this is your opportunity.
About the Role
This role is ideal for an experienced engineering manager who combines:
- Strong people leadership
- Hands-on technical credibility
- Sound execution judgment
You will partner closely with product, architecture, and other engineering leaders to deliver reliable outcomes while evolving a content- and data-driven news platform sustainably.
As a senior engineering manager in the News team at LSEG, you will be accountable for:
- Delivery, quality, reliability, and operational outcomes across one or more News Engineering squads responsible for:
- Content enrichment
- Real-time delivery
You’ll also:
- Hire, onboard, and develop engineers at varying levels
- Build high-performing, inclusive teams
- Coach engineers through regular feedback, career development, and performance management
- Foster a culture of:
- Ownership
- Accountability
- Learning & continuous improvement
- Ensure on-call and operational responsibilities are sustainable and well-engineered, not hero-driven
Key Responsibilities
Technical Leadership
- Be hands-on in design and problem-solving, guiding implementation decisions without being the primary implementer
- Review and challenge designs to ensure:
- Performance, reliability, correctness, and operability
- Meet standards, particularly for content processing and NLP-driven enrichment systems
- Support engineers in making pragmatic tradeoffs between:
- Speed
- Quality
- Long-term health
- Ensure teams apply modern engineering practices to content-centric systems:
- Automated testing of NLP pipelines
- Observability of data quality & model behavior
- CI/CD for both code and content processing
- Guide effective, responsible use of AI-assisted development and content intelligence tools to:
- Improve productivity
- Enhance code quality
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Technical Skills We’re Looking For
- Solid background in backend or platform engineering (e.g., Java, Python, Linux environments)
- Experience managing teams delivering:
- Distributed systems
- Real-time systems
- High-availability systems
- Strong understanding of:
- Low-latency architectures
- Operational considerations
- Familiarity with:
- Modern DevOps practices (CI/CD, containers, cloud infrastructure)
- AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot)
- Experience with:
- News or content-driven systems
- Text processing
- Metadata enrichment
- Entity extraction
- Classification
- Applied NLP techniques
- Strong communication skills, especially around:
- Design decisions
- Risks & tradeoffs
Why Join Us?
✅ Impact Your work helps deliver critical news to financial professionals in real-time.
✅ Growth Learn from expert engineers and expand your skills across:
- Cloud
- Data
- Resilient systems
✅ Culture We value:
- Curiosity over dogma
- Ownership over handoffs
- Pragmatism over perfection A globally distributed team that supports each other.
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✅ Flexibility
- Hybrid work options
- Balanced work-life environment
Career Stage
Manager
Compensation & Benefits
LSEG offers competitive compensation and benefits.
Base Salary Range
$147,500 – $245,900 (Note: salary may vary by geographic location, city, and state)
- Eligible for the Annual Incentive Plan (AIP) with target rates commensurate with role level.
- Annual salary reflects job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
Benefits
LSEG Employees receive:
- Annual Wellness Allowance
- Paid time-off
- Medical, Dental, Vision & Flex Spending Options
- Health Savings Account
- Prescription Drug Plan
- 401(k) Savings Plan with company match
- Life Insurance
- Disability Benefits
- Emergency Backup Dependent Care
- Adoption Assistance
- Commuter Assistance
(Note: Excludes internships and part-time roles under 20h/week.)
About LSEG
London Stock Exchange Group is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider. Our purpose is to:
🔹 Drive financial stability 🔹 Empower economies 🔹 Enable customers to create sustainable growth
Our Values
- Integrity
- Partnership
- Excellence
- Change
We are proudly diverse and committed to equal opportunities, fostering a culture where everyone’s contributions are valued.
Sustainability & Community Engagement
- Encourages new ideas
- Partners with customers for sustainability goals
- Supports financial independence through the LSEG Foundation
Apply if you’re ready to: 🚀 Take your career to the next level 🌍 Make a significant global impact
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