Development Team Lead

We are on a mission to deliver a frictionless onboarding and learning experience to LSEG Workspace - LSEG's flagship SaaS financial platform - enabling our customers to access contextual and relevant help, driving user self-help and self-sufficiency.

We're looking for an experienced Development Team Lead to join and lead a highly collaborative, cross-functional, agile product development team responsible for building the best-of-class, intuitive UIs focusing on customer experience, engineering excellence and time-to-market.

The Development Team Lead will lead a team of software engineers, fulfilling the role of Scrum Master, Team Lead, Project Coordinator, and Release Manager for software delivered by the team. This is a people management role with hands-on coding responsibilities and the potential to lead more than one team in the future.

Responsibilities

• Lead Scum software engineering team to deliver software products.

• Lead and empower the team, providing mentorship, coaching, and support to ensure their success.

• Develop project timelines and ensure that deliverables are completed on time and within budget.

• Plan and coordinate software releases, ensuring that all necessary testing and quality assurance measures are in place.

• Act as a liaison between the software engineering team and other stakeholders, including product owners, PMO, and customers.

• Continuously monitor and analyse team performance, identifying areas for improvement and implementing solutions to optimise team productivity and efficiency.

• Facilitate team meetings, including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.

• Manage project risks and issues, ensuring that they are identified, tracked, and resolved in a timely manner.

• Foster a culture of collaboration and teamwork, encouraging open communication and feedback.

• Manage the career development of individuals, providing mentoring and coaching to help them grow professionally.

• Work closely with the product owner and PMO to ensure on-time delivery on commitments and report on progress upstream.

• Stay up-to-date with the latest software development trends and technologies, and apply them to improve team performance.

Qualifications

• 10 years of experience working with web technologies, using JavaScript/Typescript and Angular.

• At least 2 years of experience as a team lead or people manager.

• Understanding of how web frameworks like Angular, React or Vue work under-the-hood.

• Solid understanding of agile methodologies, including Scrum and Kanban.

• Experience with project management tools, such as JIRA or Asana.

• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.

• Strong leadership skills, with the ability to empower and inspire team members.

• Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify and resolve complex issues.

• Strong organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.

• Ability to work well under pressure in a fast-paced environment.

• Experience with cloud infrastructure such as AWS/Azure.

Benefits:

We are looking for intellectually curious people, passionate about the bigger picture of how technology industry is evolving, ready to ask difficult questions and deal with complicated scenarios! If you are creative and a problem solver, this is the place to be as will be supporting you to fast-forward your career!

We maximise each employee's potential through personal development through a wide range of learning tools both formal and informal. We believe in remunerating our people with competitive salaries and a range of attractive benefits such as:

• 25 days' holiday per year
• 1 additional day off for your Birthday
• Annual wellness allowance
• Share Purchase Plan
• Medical Health Insurance
• Medical Subscription (preventive medical services)
• Dental Coverage
• Life insurance
• Pillar 3 Private Pension
• Meal Vouchers
• Flexible Benefits
• Bookster
• Volunteering Events

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. You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas and are committed to sustainability across our global business. You will experience the critical role we have in helping to re-engineer the financial ecosystem to support and drive sustainable economic growth. Together, we are aiming to achieve this growth by accelerating the just transition to net zero, enabling growth of the green economy and creating inclusive economic opportunity.

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

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.

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