Technical Solutions Engineer

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About the London Metal Exchange and LME Clear:

The London Metal Exchange is the world centre for industrial metals trading. Most of the worlds global non-ferrous 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. All trades are cleared and settled by LME Clear.

Participants can transfer or take on price risk against aluminium copper nickel tin zinc lead molybdenum cobalt lithium steel scrap rebar and hot-rolled coil as well as alumina aluminium premiums and alloys.

The LME and LME Clear are HKEX Group companies.

Overall Purpose of Role:

Provide senior technical insight to plan design and deliver complex change refresh and transformation programmes across the LME Group technology estate. Manage governance migrations and platform re-architecture initiatives ensuring resilient secure and compliant outcomes aligned to Infrastructure Operations & Engineering (IOE) objectives and business priorities.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the technical authority in the early planning stages of strategic projects providing expert guidance on solutions technology selection implementation approach and risk assessment.

• Develop and maintain technical roadmaps for strategic projects identifying dependencies resource requirements and critical milestones.

• Own the technical solution design (HLD/LLD) and delivery plans for infrastructure change refresh and transformation spanning compute storage networks virtualisation databases and digital workplace.

• Act as an SME across key programmes end-to-end (discovery dependency mapping planning build cutover fall-back) minimising risk and downtime for trading-critical services.

• Be aligned to robust governance: stage gates design authorities risk/issue management change control (CAB) and auditable documentation aligned to ITSM and IBS governance.

• Accelerate containerisation and platform modernisation (e.g. Kubernetes OpenShift) collaborating with Architecture InfoSec and application teams to enable secure delivery pipelines and observability.

• Engineer resilience across all Infrastructure in line with LMEs resilience posture.

• Lead technical workshops and discovery sessions to define project scope objectives and deliverables ensuring alignment with business strategy and IOE priorities.

• Define and implement operational readiness (ORR): runbooks monitoring/alerting SLOs/SLIs capacity/performance baselines service transition and handover to operations.

• Ensure compliance with relevant standards and frameworks (e.g. CIS benchmarks ISO 27001 NIST) including identity/access encryption and audit requirements.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teamsincluding Architecture InfoSec and Application Developmentto ensure technical plans are robust secure and scalable.

• Engage senior stakeholders across Technology and the business; provide clear status risks dependencies and budget/resource forecasts.

Academic and Professional Qualifications Required:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering Information Technology or a closely related discipline.

• Demonstrable track record of continuous professional development in infrastructure solutions engineering or technology transformation

Required Knowledge and Level of Experience:

• Experience leading large-scale technology change refresh and transformation programmes ideally within regulated financial services).

• Proven track record of end-to-end delivery for multi-site data centre migration projects including application/service re-platforming network/security redesign and risk management.

• Deep hands-on expertise across infrastructure domains: Windows/Linux networks (routing switching firewalls load balancing) storage/backup virtualisation databases and identity/access management.

• Experience with container platforms and orchestration (Kubernetes/OpenShift) CI/CD artefact registries and runtime security.

• Strong governance background: programme controls risk/compliance audit readiness and defensible documentation (ITIL TOGAF ISO 27001 NIST).

Skills set and Core Competencies Required for Role:

• Advanced technical architecture and solution design (HLD/LLD) across compute storage networking virtualisation and cloud platforms.

• Programme and project leadership for large-scale transformation including data centre migrations and platform modernisation.

• Hands-on experience with containerisation and orchestration (Kubernetes OpenShift) CI/CD pipelines and automation (PowerShell Python Terraform Ansible).

• Operational excellence in monitoring observability (e.g. Splunk Prometheus) incident/problem management and service transition.

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage and influence senior stakeholders present complex technical concepts and produce clear auditable documentation.

• Analytical and strategic thinking with a focus on continuous improvement and delivering resilient secure and compliant solutions.

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 and reassignment nation of origin age languages spoken colour religion disability sexual orientation and doing so we want every LME employee to feel our commitment to showing respect for all and encouraging open collaboration and communication.