Director - Cloud Platform Engineering

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. 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.

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. LSEG’s ticker symbol is LSEG.

Our People

People are at the heart of what we do and drive the success of our business. Our culture of connecting, creating opportunity and delivering excellence shape how we think, how we do things and how we help our people fulfil their potential. We embrace diversity and actively seek to attract individuals with unique backgrounds and perspectives.  We break down barriers and encourage teamwork, enabling innovation and rapid development of solutions that make a difference. Our workplace generates an enriching and rewarding experience for our people and customers alike. Our vision is to build an inclusive culture in which everyone feels encouraged to fulfil their potential.

We know that real personal growth cannot be achieved by simply climbing a career ladder – which is why we encourage and enable a wealth of avenues and interesting opportunities for everyone to broaden and deepen their skills and expertise. As a global organisation spanning 70 countries and one rooted in a culture of growth, opportunity, diversity and innovation, LSEG is a place where everyone can grow, develop and fulfil your potential with meaningful careers.

Role Summary:

We are seeking a Director of Cloud Platform Engineering to lead the strategy, engineering, and operation of LSEG’s core cloud platforms.

This is a deeply technical leadership role, accountable for the engineering, architecture, product roadmap, and operational excellence of the platforms that enable LSEG engineering teams to build, deploy, and run services securely, reliably, and at scale.

At LSEG, we hire technical engineering leaders who operate credibly at depth while also leading organisations, engaging senior stakeholders, and managing significant investment and delivery outcomes. You will lead a large product engineering organisation and work across engineering, product, architecture, security, risk, and operations to build cloud platforms as long-lived, evergreen products.

A core focus of this role is the development of self-service internal developer platforms, enabling thousands of engineers to consume platform capabilities through well-defined platform products that accelerate delivery while maintaining safety, compliance, and reliability.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Own the strategy, technical direction, and roadmap for our Core Cloud Platforms, ensuring the platform meets LSEG’s needs for resilience, security, observability, performance, scalability, and developer experience.

• Lead the engineering and evolution of self-service cloud platform capabilities, enabling teams to provision, deploy, and operate services through automated, productised interfaces.

• Build and operate cloud platforms as ‘evergreen’ products, with clear customer outcomes, service models, adoption strategy, lifecycle management, and roadmaps.

• Accountability for the developer experience of consuming LSEG’s core cloud platforms.

• Provide deep technical leadership across public cloud platforms, shaping standards, architectures, and guardrails for enterprise-scale cloud engineering.

• Drive modern Site Reliability Engineering practices across the platform, including SLIs/SLOs, incident management, resilience engineering, and operational readiness.

• Establish and evolve platform observability, ensuring systems are measurable, diagnosable, and operable across infrastructure, runtime, and application layers.

• Define and govern release and testing frameworks for platform components.

• Champion automation-first engineering through infrastructure as code, CI/CD, policy as code, and developer self-service.

• Partner with security, risk, architecture, and product leadership to align platform strategy with regulatory and business priorities.

• Lead, coach, and develop engineering managers and senior engineers, building high-performing teams rooted in technical excellence.

• Manage significant budgets, investment priorities, and vendor relationships.

• Engage senior stakeholders (C-Level) effectively, translating complex technical topics into clear decisions and trade-offs.

What You’ll Bring:

• Proven experience leading large-scale platform engineering, cloud engineering, or infrastructure engineering organisations.

• Deep technical expertise in public cloud platforms, with strong hands-on experience in at least one major CSP and broad understanding across others.

• Understanding of Kubernetes and CNCF ecosystem tooling, with practical experience designing or operating cloud-native platforms.

• Experience in Site Reliability Engineering, production operations, and platform observability.

• Experience building internal developer platforms and self-service capabilities, with a focus on developer experience and adoption.

• Proven experience treating platforms as products, including roadmap ownership, lifecycle thinking, and customer-centric design.

• Strong experience defining release frameworks, testing strategies, and deployment models for shared platforms.

• Deep understanding of infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and automation-first engineering.

• Solid grounding in cloud networking, identity, security, governance, and compliance in enterprise environments.

• Demonstrated ability to drive technological and cultural change towards modern engineering practices (e.g. automation-first, platform enablement).

• Experience in Cloud Cost Management and FinOps.

• Strong people leadership experience, including leading managers and developing senior technical talent.

• Experience managing significant budgets and delivery priorities.

• Excellent communication and senior stakeholder (C-Level) management skills.

Preferred:

• Experience in enterprise-scale multi-cloud environments.

• Familiarity with CNCF ecosystem tools (e.g. service mesh, observability stacks, policy engines).

• Experience in regulated, high-availability environments (e.g. financial services).

• Experience in modern software engineering practices and languages (Python, Go).

• Experience building or enabling platforms that support AI/ML workloads.

• Experience enabling AI-augmented engineering teams, embedding AI-assisted tooling into the development lifecycle.

What You’ll Get in Return:

• The opportunity to shape the future of Cloud Platform Engineering at LSEG.

• A role that combines deep technical leadership with broad organisational impact.

• The chance to build and evolve cloud platforms as products, directly impacting engineering velocity, resilience, and business outcomes.

• The ability to work on complex, mission-critical systems operating at global scale, with high expectations for reliability, performance, and security.

• A collaborative, product-led environment where modern engineering practices and continuous improvement are actively supported.

• Hybrid working model (3 days per week in the office).

Career Stage:

Director

London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) Information:

Join us and be part of a team that values innovation, quality, and continuous improvement. If you're ready to take your career to the next level and make a significant impact, we'd love to hear from you.

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.

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. This means that we do not discriminate on the basis of anyone’s 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.

You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas. We are committed to sustainability across our global business and we are proud to partner with our customers to help them meet their sustainability objectives. Our charity, the LSEG Foundation provides charitable grants to community groups that help people access economic opportunities and build a secure future with financial independence. Colleagues can get involved through fundraising and volunteering.

LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.

Please take a moment to read this privacy notice carefully, as it describes what personal information London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) (we) may hold about you, what it’s used for, and how it’s obtained, your rights and how to contact us as a data subject.

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.