Job Description

FTSE Russell is a leading global provider of financial services, specializing in the creation and management of indexes, data, and analytic solutions. A subsidiary of the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), FTSE Russell supports investors worldwide in making informed decisions across asset classes, investment strategies, and market segments. Its products are trusted by institutional and retail investors, asset managers, and pension funds to benchmark performance, build investment portfolios, and manage risk. With a reputation for innovation, transparency, and robust governance, FTSE Russell plays a critical role in shaping global financial markets.
Job Summary:
FTSE Russell is seeking a hands-on dynamic software development leader to drive a team of software engineers building robust equity index capabilities and indexes. The candidate demonstrates an understanding of the index construction process or a significant market data knowledge, combined with a solid, global, previous experience in leading software development organizations. A strong functional knowledge of financial and capital markets and the ability to drive complex projects to successful completion is a must in an execution driven environment.
As the Equity Index Software Development Engineering Leader, you will manage and mentor developers, oversee engineering initiatives, and ensure solutions meet technical, business and budget requirements. Your ability to act as a partner to the index product managers and contribute to solution designs, project estimations, assign the right people and create a can-do execution culture is an important aspect of the job and the culture we want to create.
You will be responsible for overseeing the software development lifecycle, ensuring the team is delivering high-quality software on time, within budget, and fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.
What You'll Do
As an equity index software development engineering leader, you will act as a thought partner:To the Product organization, demonstrating execution drive, ability to be part of the solution, reaching the right tradeoffs between acceptable scope, cost, implementation timing, but without compromising on the quality of the solutions delivered. To the Operations organization, ensuring indexes can be operated at scale and enforcing operational excellence. To the wider engineering organization, ensuring solution designs are fit for purpose, delivered on time and on budget, and when necessary anticipating issues, delays and regroup the right teams and resources to find solutions.

As a hands-on Engineer, you'll build with purpose -- solving real-world problems with measurable impact.Design, build, and scale our current index platforms. Develop efficient, and secure cloud-native architectures. Work with RDBMS systems and databases such as Sybase or SQL Server. Contribute to code reviews, mentor peers, and help shape a world-class engineering culture. Partner with global teams to define new solutions across cloud, data, and analytics. Work with upstream and downstream development teams to implement functionality. Ensure the Engineering organization embed a test culture in the software development process with the design of automated and integrated test cases. Promote a culture of teamwork, high performance and quality via code reviews, ensuring standards and best practices are followed via agile methodologies. Communicate with clarity, precision, and influence, presenting complex information in a clear and concise format that is appropriate for the audience Helps in recruitment/setting up of teams through interviewing and identifying different skill sets required to deliver the project successfully

Tech Stack You'll Work On
Our systems are running on AWS. Most of the business logic of our current index systems is in RDBMS databases such as SQL Server. The right candidate will therefore have a strong knowledge of RDBMS systems and an ability to read and understand business logic expressed in SQL. We however are moving away from SQL to build our logic outside of the database, in services, typically implemented in C#, Java or Python. You should therefore demonstrate experience in coding in procedural or object-oriented languages.
Your versatility in being able to dig into existing code bases, understand them, and extend them to implement the new capabilities we need on our index platform will be a significant factor for us.
The key skills of the team are:Backend: Python, C# .NET, SQL, APIs, microservices, containers Frontend: Angular, JavaScript, HTML5/CSS Cloud: AWS (EC2, Lambda, Glue, EKS, SQS, SNS and any other as required) Databases: SQL Server, Sybase, PostgreSQL CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Terraform

Experience we value:Financial and Capital markets functional understanding Index and Benchmarking experience is a strong plus Solid experience in UI development for business-critical applications in Angular (8 and above), Java Script, HTML/CSS, C# Exposure to AWS services Solid stakeholder management

Personal traits you should have:Can-do attitude, ability to build bridges and establish partnerships Excellent attention to detail and an ability to think laterally to solve business problems. Ability to hit the ground running, learn quickly and work against tight deadlines. Creative, results driven, self-motivated, and solutions oriented. Demonstrates self-confidence, flawless communication, excellent interpersonal and time management skills Experience in working with and influencing key decision makers Able to establish credibility quickly. Excellent stakeholder management skills.

How We Work: Engineering at FTSE Russell
Our engineers operate with a clear "why" -- staying aligned to strategic outcomes while putting the customer at the center of every decision. You'll thrive here if you: Build with Purpose: You understand the whybehind every line of code and optimize for meaningful outcomes. Customer Driven: You translate complex requirements into elegant solutions that delight users. Technically Courageous: You step out of your comfort zone, challenge the status quo, and innovate with confidence. Learn and be curious: You seek feedback, explore new technologies, and stay curious. Grow and Uplift Others: You coach, mentor, and celebrate team wins. Act as Owners: You act like an owner, making thoughtful trade-offs and delivering long-term value. Lead with data: You trust the numbers, validate assumptions, and learn from failures. Dive Deep: You stay close to the details and act decisively when something's off. Build responsibly, deliver incrementally: You embrace agile principles, delivering incrementally and improving through feedback. Collaborate to achieve: You believe the best solutions come from diverse, cross-functional teamwork.

Why Join Us?
We value your interest in applying technology in the financial industry. While we hire you for your technical skills, we also aim to enhance your knowledge of capital markets and indexes. We want you to become experts both technically and functionally.
You will also join:
Global Brand, Local Impact: Contribute to FTSE Russell's global index systems from Bangalore.
Engineering First Culture: Work in an agile, collaborative, tech-driven environment.
Cutting-Edge Projects: Engage with modern architectures and tools on mission-critical systems.
Career Growth: Benefit from global mentorship, upskilling programs, and internal mobility.
Flexibility: Enjoy a hybrid work model with good work-life balance.
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.
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