Lead Regulatory Reporting Engineer Shift Pattern: Standard 40 Hour Week (United Kingdom) Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40 Corporate Grade: C - Vice President Reporting Line: (UK Division) Information Technology Location: UK-London Worker Type: Permanent About the London Metal Exchange The London Metal Exchange (LME) is the world centre for industrial metals trading. Most of the world’s global non-ferrous futures business is conducted on the LME’s three trading platforms totalling $18 trillion, 178 million lots and 4 billion tonnes with a market open interest high of 1.8 million lots in 2024. The metals community uses the LME, an HKEX Group company, as a venue to transfer or take on price risk, as a physical market of last resort and as the provider of transparent global reference prices. Overall Purpose of Role : The Lead Reporting Engineer is responsible for designing, developing and implementing system and application solutions to address reporting business requirements, and providing technical leadership within the IT department. It is an important role in the system development cycle responsible for aligning technology with defined business goals. It requires attention to detail, as the Lead Reporting Engineer frequently needs to examine business requirements and translate them into system guidelines that shape project development whilst adhering to and helping to evolve the strategic reporting technology. While their primary domains are reporting development, the Lead Reporting Engineer is expected to have an appreciation of other domains, including devops and application support, as well as infrastructure, network and security. In performing their role they are expected to engage and involve SMEs from other software engineering domains where appropriate for the development of solutions. They should be seen as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) and accept technical responsibility for the solutions they develop. Further, they should provide education and guidance to other disciplines within IT and the wider business and group. Responsibilities : · Develop software and data applications for regulatory, customer, and miscellaneous reporting. · Right-size the development team and ensure appropriate balance of skills and experience in the engineering squad/pod/tribe/team. · Development management of 1 or more agile delivery squads/pods/tribes/teams composed of developers, product owner, business analysts, testers, devops, app support, etc with regular sprint planning, retrospectives, and daily stand-up ceremonies. · Lead a team of software developers, mentor junior colleagues in software engineering. · Collaborate with business, architecture, and infrastructure teams to build the strategic reporting platform. · Produce and maintain system documentation. · Ensure that relevant technical strategies, principles and standards are applied correctly. · Contribute to application, technical, and data architecture design principles. Required Knowledge : · Expert knowledge and experience of software development in Java and SQL for reporting applications. · Good knowledge and experienced of Spring-boot and Spring-batch application development. · Expert knowledge of data frameworks, data modelling, database design, SQL, Stored Procedures, MDX, and APIs. · Good knowledge and experience of reporting technical stack MS SQL Server, SSRS, PowerBI, SSAS, PostgreSQL. · Knowledge of integration and ETL technologies Informatica ETL, Spring-Batch and SSIS. · Good experience of managing software development teams, process and tools. · Good knowledge and experience of software engineering design, development, build, and test process and practice. · Good experience in agile delivery and ceremonies e.g. sprint planning, daily scrum, retrospectives. · Good Knowledge of DevOps toolchain e.g. Jira, Bitbucket, Bamboo, Artefactory. · Knowledge of C#/.NET, Python, Javascript and other programming languages is beneficial. · Knowledge of containerisation, Docker and Kubernetes for PaaS workloads is beneficial. · Knowledge of Redhat OpenShift is beneficial. Skills set and Core Competencies Required for Role: Communication Skills: · Communication skills both in written and verbal form are imperative as this role is highly collaborative, where clarity in communications will largely determine the effectiveness and efficiency with which cross-functional duties are executed. Deep analytical skills: · Designing a solution requires an understanding of how different parts of the business work together. The Lead Reporting Engineer must recognise the corporate strategy and realise all business processes that define how a company achieves its strategic goals. The role also requires understanding of technical specifics and constantly dealing with analytical work and moving between various business layers. Project and resource management skills: · The Lead Reporting Engineer must be able to make decisions about which solutions are advantageous and deliver maximum value within project constraints (timeline, budget, resources). Desirable: · Experience working within regulated financial institutions and regulatory landscape. · Experience of regulated clearing house, exchange, investment organisation, bank, or depository. · Knowledge of commodities, futures and options, valuations, risk management, and collateral. The LME is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. In recruiting for our teams, we welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of education, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity, expression & reassignment, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation and belief s. In doing so, we want every LME employee to feel our commitment to showing respect for all and encouraging open collaboration and communication.