Lead Software Engineer, Cyber Security Controls Automation
London Stock Exchange Group2 months ago
London, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Build software and automation for cyber security control monitoring, testing, reporting, and evidence collection.
- Develop command-line tools, APIs, integrations, and workflows that simplify assurance activities.
- Integrate with security platforms, risk systems, cloud services, SIEM, vulnerability management, IAM, EDR, and other engineering tools.
- Create repeatable evidence-generation processes for audits, regulatory reviews, customer assessments, and compliance activities.
- Use structured and unstructured data to identify control gaps, weaknesses, trends, and risk exposure.
- Translate technical control activity into clear, auditable evidence and reporting.
- Improve control design, implementation, measurement, and documentation, including policy-as-code approaches.
- Provide technical feedback through code and design reviews and help develop standards and policy documentation.
Requirements
- Previous experience building command-line tools and working with web-based systems and APIs.
- Commercial experience with Rust, TypeScript, Python, Go, and JavaScript.
- Knowledge of algorithms and data structures for handling large volumes of data and data-intensive systems.
- Experience providing engineering feedback through code review.
- Exposure to multiple programming languages, frameworks, and cloud technologies.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals, including testing, version control, maintainability, documentation, and secure coding practices.
- Experience working with structured and unstructured data to generate meaningful control insight.
- Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to engineers, risk teams, auditors, and senior stakeholders.
- Helpful qualifications include cyber security, control testing, evidence, risk management, regulated-environment, consulting, policy documentation, policy-as-code, continuous control monitoring, and relevant cyber security, cloud, software engineering, or risk certification experience.
Benefits
- Healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days, and wellbeing initiatives.
- Equal-opportunity employer with reasonable accommodations for religious practices, mental health, and physical or disability needs.
- Opportunities to participate in fundraising and volunteering through the LSEG Foundation.
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About London Stock Exchange Group
London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) provides market infrastructure, financial data, and analytics to banks, asset managers, and corporations. Its businesses span capital markets (London Stock Exchange), post-trade clearing (LCH), and information services including FTSE Russell indices and the Refinitiv data platform, funded by transaction fees, subscriptions, and licensing. Headquartered in London and publicly listed on the LSE, the group serves global customers seeking trading, clearing, benchmarks, and enterprise data solutions.