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 seeks 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. This role is ideal for an experienced engineering manager who combines strong people leadership, hands‑on technical credibility, and sound execution judgment. Responsibilities Partner closely with product, architecture, and other engineering leaders to deliver reliable outcomes while evolving a content‑ and data‑driven news platform sustainably. Account for delivery, quality, reliability, and operational outcomes across one or more News Engineering squads responsible for content enrichment and real‑time delivery. Hire, onboard, and develop engineers at varying levels, building high‑performing, inclusive teams. Coach engineers through regular feedback, career development, and performance management, fostering a culture of ownership, accountability, learning, and continuous improvement. Create an environment where on‑call and operational responsibilities are sustainable and well‑engineered, not hero‑driven. Act as a technical leader: engage in design and problem‑solving, guide implementation decisions, and review and challenge designs to ensure performance, reliability, correctness, and operability standards are met. Support engineers in making pragmatic tradeoffs between speed, quality, and long‑term health. Ensure teams apply modern engineering practices, including automated testing of NLP pipelines, observability of data quality and model behavior, and CI/CD for both code and content processing. Guide the responsible use of AI‑assisted development and content intelligence tools to improve productivity and code quality. Qualifications Solid technical background in backend or platform engineering (e.g., Java, Python, Linux environments). Experience managing teams delivering distributed, real‑time, or high‑availability systems. Strong understanding of low‑latency architectures and operational considerations. Familiarity with modern DevOps practices (CI/CD, containers, cloud infrastructure). Experience using and guiding teams in the adoption of AI‑assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot). Experience with news or content‑driven systems, including text processing, metadata enrichment, entity extraction, classification, or other applied NLP techniques. Strong communication skills, especially around design decisions, risks, and tradeoffs. Benefits 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, and resilient systems. Culture: We value curiosity over dogma, ownership over handoffs, and pragmatism over perfection. Flexibility: Hybrid work options and a balanced work‑life environment. Competitive compensation: Base salary range $147,500 - $245,900 (location dependent) with eligibility for an annual incentive plan. Comprehensive benefits: Annual wellness allowance, paid time‑off, medical, dental, vision, flex spending & health savings options, prescription drug plan, 401(k) savings plan with company match, basic life insurance, disability benefits, emergency backup dependent care, adoption assistance, commuter assistance, etc. We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of 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. We can accommodate applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. #J-18808-Ljbffr London Stock Exchange Group