- Location
- Colombo, Sri Lanka
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- Engineering
- Seniority
- Senior
- Closing date
- Today
- Source
- Workday
Description
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 commitment 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.
About the Role
We are looking for a Senior Application Engineer to join our Regulatory Reporting & Data Platforms team. This role sits at the intersection of application engineering, data warehousing, cloud technologies, and operational excellence.
You will play a key role in supporting and evolving platforms that deliver critical regulatory, financial, and member reporting services across global markets. Our systems process large volumes of trade, collateral, position, and financial data that support regulatory obligations and business operations across multiple jurisdictions.
This is an excellent opportunity for someone who enjoys solving complex data and application challenges, working with modern cloud and data technologies, and contributing to highly visible business-critical platforms.
You'll work closely with business stakeholders, data engineers, software developers, infrastructure teams, and product partners while helping drive platform modernization, automation, reliability, and continuous improvement.
What You'll Be Working On
Our team supports:
Regulatory Reporting Platforms
Solutions that provide reporting to global regulators, including:
- EMIR / UnaVista
- SFTR
- CFTC
- DTCC
- CME
- Bank of England
- HKTR
- JFSA
- Canadian Regulators (OSC/AMF)
- RBA
- Additional global regulatory reporting frameworks
Member Reporting Services
- Banking and collateral reporting
- Business Objects reporting platforms
- Report generation and distribution services
- Operational and management reporting solutions
Global Fees Platforms
- Fee calculation and processing
- Invoicing and reconciliations
- Financial reporting and downstream integrations
What You'll Do
Own and Support Critical Services
- Support and maintain business-critical applications across Production, UAT, and Pre-Production environments.
- Monitor platform health, data pipelines, applications, and reporting services.
- Solve incidents and perform root cause analysis.
- Drive sustainable solutions that improve reliability and reduce operational risk.
- Collaborate with global teams to ensure seamless service delivery.
Build and Improve Data Solutions
- Support enterprise data warehouse and reporting platforms.
- Analyze and optimize complex SQL queries and data processes.
- Investigate data quality, reconciliation, and reporting issues.
- Contribute to scalable and efficient ETL/ELT solutions.
- Help improve data governance, observability, and lineage capabilities.
- Develop and enhance data visualization solutions that deliver actionable insights to business and technology stakeholders.
- Support operational reporting, service monitoring, and KPI/KRI dashboards.
Deliver Engineering Improvements
- Design and implement enhancements and defect fixes.
- Automate manual processes and operational workflows.
- Improve platform performance, scalability, and resilience.
- Contribute to modernization initiatives and cloud adoption programs.
Drive Operational Excellence
- Participate in incident, problem, and organizational change processes.
- Support production releases and deployments.
- Improve monitoring, alerting, and observability capabilities.
- Share knowledge and contribute to team documentation and engineering standards.
Partner Across the Organization
- Work closely with business, product, development, data, and infrastructure teams.
- Communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical team members.
- Act as a trusted technical partner during investigations, projects, and system enhancements.
What We're Looking For
We're interested in engineers who are curious, collaborative, and passionate about building reliable data-driven solutions.
You may be a good fit if you bring experience in several of the following areas:
Data Warehousing & Databases
- Strong SQL development and data analysis skills
- Data warehouse design and support
- Snowflake
- Data modelling and data integration concepts
- Query tuning and performance optimization
- Data reconciliation and root cause analysis
Data Engineering & Integration
- ETL/ELT pipelines
- DBT
- Apache Airflow or Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA)
- Data transformation and orchestration frameworks
Programming & Automation
- Python
- Shell scripting (Unix/Linux)
- PowerShell
- Process automation and operational tooling
Cloud & Platform Technologies
Experience with one or more cloud platforms:
- AWS
- EC2
- S3
- Lambda
- RDS
- API Gateway
- VPC
or
- Microsoft Azure equivalents
Monitoring & Reliability
- Datadog
- Application monitoring and alerting platforms
- Operational dashboards and observability tooling
- Performance and capacity analysis
DevOps & Engineering Practices
- GitLab
- CI/CD pipelines
- Infrastructure as Code
- Terraform
- Agile delivery practices
- Release and deployment automation
Data Visualization & Analytics
- Experience developing interactive dashboards and data visualizations with Power BI
- Ability to translate complex business and operational data into meaningful insights.
- Knowledge of reporting, analytics, and visualization standard methodologies.
- Familiarity with self-service analytics and business intelligence platforms.
Nice to Have
While not required, experience in any of the following would be beneficial:
- Regulatory reporting platforms
- Financial markets or clearing services exposure
- SAP Business Objects
- Control-M
- SnowPro Certification
- AWS or Azure certifications
- ITIL Foundation Certification
- Data governance and metadata management
What Success Looks Like
In this role, you will:
- Improve platform stability and reliability
- Reduce operational overhead through automation
- Deliver high-quality engineering solutions
- Strengthen data quality and reporting accuracy
- Help modernize legacy processes and technologies
- Build trusted relationships across business and technology teams
- Contribute to a culture of innovation, learning, and continuous improvement
Career Stage:
Senior AssociateLondon 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.
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