Senior News Engineering Manager

LSEG•New York, NY

46d•$147,500 - $245,900•Hybrid

About The Position

LSEG’s News Engineering group is looking for 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. You will partner closely with product, architecture, and other engineering leaders to deliver reliable outcomes while evolving a content‑ and data‑driven news platform sustainably. As a senior engineering manager in the News team at LSEG, you will be accountable for delivery, quality, reliability, and operational outcomes across one or more News Engineering squads responsible for content enrichment and real‑time delivery. You’ll hire, onboard, and develop engineers at varying levels, building high‑performing, inclusive teams. Coach engineers through regular feedback, career development, and performance management. Foster 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. As a technical leader, you’ll be hands-on in design and problem‑solving, guiding implementation decisions without being the primary implementer. Review and challenge designs to ensure performance, reliability, correctness, and operability standards are met, particularly for content processing and NLP‑driven enrichment systems. Support engineers in making pragmatic tradeoffs between speed, quality, and long‑term health. Ensure teams apply modern engineering practices to content‑centric systems, including automated testing of NLP pipelines, observability of data quality and model behavior, and CI/CD for both code and content processing. Guide effective, responsible use of AI‑assisted development and content intelligence tools to improve productivity and code quality.

Requirements

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
Solid 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

Responsibilities

Accountable 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.
Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, learning, and continuous improvement.
Create an environment where on‑call and operational responsibilities are sustainable and well‑engineered.
Be hands-on in design and problem‑solving, guiding implementation decisions.
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 to content‑centric systems, including automated testing of NLP pipelines, observability of data quality and model behavior, and CI/CD for both code and content processing.
Guide effective, responsible use of AI‑assisted development and content intelligence tools to improve productivity and code quality.