Americas Collections Development Manager

LSEG•St. Louis, MO

About The Position

The Americas Collections Development Manager will lead teams responsible for LSEG’s Real-Time Collections Engineering and critical market data platforms. The role is accountable for engineering delivery, operational resilience, platform modernization, and the development of engineering talent and culture. The successful candidate will build empowered, product-focused teams and deliver reliable, scalable market data solutions that meet customer and business needs. The role leads software engineering teams across multiple products and services, establishing a culture of ownership, accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement. It drives delivery outcomes and modern software delivery practices, partners with product and architecture stakeholders on roadmaps and technical quality, and ensures services are operationally ready, supportable, secure, and reliable. The position also collaborates across business and technology organizations and communicates progress, risks, and outcomes to senior leadership.

Requirements

Demonstrated experience leading software engineering teams in a sophisticated enterprise environment.
Strong coaching, mentoring, and talent-development capabilities.
Strong software engineering background with experience in large-scale distributed systems.
Experience with modern software delivery practices, including CI/CD, DevSecOps, and Agile methodologies.
Knowledge of cloud platforms, containerized environments, and modern application architectures.
Experience operating high-availability, critically meaningful technology platforms.
Proven track record of delivering sophisticated technology initiatives.
Experience managing production services and operational support environments.
Strong understanding of reliability, performance, scalability, and observability practices.
Excellent stakeholder collaboration and communication skills.
Ability to influence across technical and business organizations.
Strong written and verbal communication abilities.

Nice To Haves

Experience managing technical leads or geographically distributed teams.
Experience in financial services, market data, exchange connectivity, or low-latency systems.
Experience with real-time data collection, normalization, distribution, or trading-related platforms.
Knowledge of cloud transformation and platform modernization programs.
Familiarity with AI-assisted engineering, automation frameworks, and software delivery optimization.
Experience leading globally distributed engineering organizations.

Responsibilities

Lead and develop high-performing software engineering teams across multiple products and services.
Establish a culture of ownership, accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement.
Coach, mentor, and develop engineers at varying experience levels.
Support workforce planning, recruitment, succession planning, and talent development.
Own delivery outcomes for squad initiatives, ensuring commitments are met with quality and predictability.
Drive Agile and DevSecOps practices across the software development lifecycle.
Manage priorities, risks, dependencies, and technical debt with product and architecture partners.
Ensure teams deliver scalable, reliable, and secure solutions.
Partner with Architects and Engineers to define technical roadmaps and modernization strategies.
Promote engineering standards for code quality, automation, testing, observability, and resilience.
Support cloud migration, platform modernization, application decomposition, and automation initiatives.
Drive adoption of engineering efficiency tools, AI-assisted development capabilities, and automation frameworks where appropriate.
Ensure operational readiness and supportability of services.
Lead incident management, problem resolution, root cause analysis, and continuous service improvement.
Maintain high standards for reliability, availability, security, and compliance.
Champion SRE and operational excellence practices.
Collaborate with Product Managers, business stakeholders, Architects, QE, Operations, and Infrastructure teams.
Communicate progress, challenges, risks, and achievements to senior leadership.
Balance customer needs, business priorities, and technical considerations to deliver optimal outcomes.
Deliver improved engineering delivery performance and predictability, operational resilience and service quality, platform modernization and cloud adoption, engineering capability and talent development, automation and productivity, and reliable customer outcomes.
Lead with accountability and ownership; build empowered, product-focused teams; drive innovation while maintaining operational excellence; create an inclusive, collaborative, high-performance culture; and deliver measurable business and customer outcomes.