Lead Regulatory Reporting Engineer

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About the London Metal Exchange

The London Metal Exchange (LME) is the world centre for industrial metals trading. Most of the worlds global nonferrous futures business is conducted on the LMEs 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.

Rightsize 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 standup 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 Springboot and Springbatch 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 SpringBatch 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 crossfunctional 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.