The Infrastructure Platform Engineering (IPE) team at LSEG needs to modernize and transform its core infrastructure services by deploying automation and Platform-as-Product services. This role is crucial for optimizing delivery across strategic initiatives, improving alignment with business priorities, and transitioning to continuous value delivery to better support business operations and future transformation.
Requirements
- Good understanding of infrastructure technologies and operations, including areas such as capacity planning, hardware and service lifecycle management and infrastructure modernisation and transformation.
- Consistent track record of demonstrating delivery excellence and methodologies to translate strategic goals into actionable roadmaps, deliver measurable business value and outcomes, orchestrate effective resource utilisation and efficient demand and investment planning.
- Deep experience with Agile methodologies, backlog prioritisation, and cross-functional leadership.
- Strong organizational skills and self-motivated with strong attention to detail and follow through.
- Ability to work under pressure with initiative and a flexible approach; capable of handling ambitious demands, ambiguity, and changing priorities.
- Strong analytical and critical thinking skills for effective change management and problem-solving.
- Crucial Tooling knowledge: Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Tools (Excel, PowerPoint, Word), and experience using planning and tracking tooling such as Asana or JIRA are critical.
Responsibilities
- Ownership of Driving Delivery Excellence: Transform delivery capability across large-scale IT and infrastructure transformation initiatives, by developing strategic partnerships, optimising value streams and establishing proactive delivery systems that yield timely, quality execution, prevent critical issues and enable sustainable business outcomes
- Designing and Implementing Governance: Establish and implement forward-looking governance frameworks to enable effective oversight and control, that detects important details before they become partner concerns.
- Strategic Delivery Management: create strategic delivery roadmaps that optimise business value, allocation of resource and investment, by improving end to end delivery pipelines from demand identification to value realisation, including shaping IPE portfolio structure
- Capacity & Demand Planning: optimise and improve demand intake and prioritisation processes, and partner with business on end-to-end demand planning to ensure initiatives are strategically aligned, prioritised, and resourced optimally.
- Investment optimisation: partner with engineering strategists and business teams to optimise infrastructure investment strategy, supporting business growth while enabling competitive advantage and cost optimisation
- Reporting & Metrics: Develop clear, data-driven reporting and metrics, that not only measures delivery progress, but provides insights on delivery effectiveness, business value, customer satisfaction and improvement opportunities
- Risk, Issue & Dependency Management: Proactively identify and own risks, interdependencies, and constraints across delivery initiatives, and focus on strategies which build resilience in delivery capabilities
Other
- Team Leadership & Coaching: lead a high-performing delivery team, providing clear direction and support to ensure consistent, high-quality outcomes. Mentor and develop as needed to enable the team to navigate complexity and deliver at pace in an exciting, dynamic environment.
- Strategic Business Partnership: build trusted strategic partnerships with business partners and broader delivery teams through collaborative planning, requirements shaping and cross-functional alignment that enables proactive delivery decisions and value-driven prioritisation.
- Delivery excellence: Lead Agile ceremonies such as sprint planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives to maintain delivery momentum, alongside championing the adoption of Agile delivery practices that increase business value delivery
- Contribute to Continuous Improvement culture: driving continuous improvement of delivery, business relationships and strategic alignment through systematic assessment and enhancement of processes and partnerships
- Stakeholder Management: consistent track record of building effective strategic relationships, through clear communication, delivering against expectations and establishing and sustaining trust.
