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About the Role

Lead strategic initiatives to optimize Engineering’s cost base, focusing on software licensing, vendor spend, developer tooling, platform costs, cloud consumption, and broader engineering expenditure. This role collaborates across Engineering, Finance, Procurement, FinOps, Architecture, and Product teams to execute sustainable cost optimization strategies, reduce run-rate costs, improve commercial outcomes, enhance license utilization, and strengthen financial discipline.

Responsibilities

Build and maintain Engineering’s long-term cost optimization strategy across software, cloud, infrastructure, platforms, tooling, services, and vendor spend.
Identify high-value opportunities through spend analysis, benchmarking, usage assessments, license inventories, demand forecasts, and architectural reviews.
Establish repeatable approaches, frameworks, and governance for sustainable cost management across Engineering.
Lead strategies to optimize major software licensing portfolios across Engineering.
Drive software asset management maturity through improved inventory, entitlement, utilization, and compliance processes.
Identify opportunities to reduce duplicate tooling, consolidate vendors, improve license utilization, and eliminate under-used products.
Provide commercial challenge and strategic input into major software renewals and vendor negotiations.
Build trusted relationships with Engineering Leadership, CTOO teams, Finance, Procurement, Architecture, and Product organizations.
Influence senior stakeholders to prioritize cost optimization alongside resilience, performance, delivery, and innovation objectives.

Requirements

Significant experience leading technology, engineering, operational, or cost transformation initiatives within a complex enterprise environment.
Demonstrable experience delivering material cost savings and commercial outcomes across software, technology, or engineering organizations.
Strong understanding of software licensing models, software asset management, vendor management, and technology procurement.
Experience working with developer tooling, cloud platforms, infrastructure services, enterprise software, and SaaS vendors.
Strong commercial acumen with the ability to evaluate business cases, investment decisions, and contract economics.
Experience within financial services or other highly regulated industries.
Experience with FinOps, TBM, Apptio, Cloudability, or similar tooling.
Experience supporting large-scale software renewals, supplier negotiations, or sourcing activities.
Knowledge of cloud economics, license optimization, and technology portfolio rationalization.

Skills

Software Licensing
Vendor Spend Management
Developer Tooling
Platform Costs
Cloud Consumption
Engineering Expenditure Optimization
Cost Optimization Strategies
Software Asset Management
Commercial Acumen
FinOps
TBM
Apptio
Cloudability

Location

United Kingdom

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Manager
Senior Manager

Benefits

Healthcare
Retirement planning
Paid volunteering days
Wellbeing initiatives

About the Company

LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is a diversified global financial markets infrastructure and data business.
We are dedicated, open-access partners with a dedication to excellence in delivering the services our customers expect.
We enable businesses and economies globally to fund innovation, manage risk, and create jobs.
We have supported financial stability and growth globally for over 300 years.
We provide trusted financial market infrastructure services through an open-access model.
LSEG is headquartered in the United Kingdom, with significant operations in 70 countries.
We employ 25,000 people globally.
Our culture connects, creates opportunity, and delivers excellence.
We embrace diversity and seek individuals with unique backgrounds and perspectives.
We encourage teamwork, enabling innovation and rapid development of solutions.
Our vision is to build an inclusive culture where everyone can fulfill their potential.
We encourage and enable a wealth of avenues and interesting opportunities for personal growth.
LSEG is a place where everyone can grow, develop, and fulfill their potential with meaningful careers.
LSEG is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider.
Our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.
Our values are Integrity, Partnership, Excellence, and Change.
We are committed to sustainability across our global business.
The LSEG Foundation provides charitable grants to community groups.
Colleagues can get involved through fundraising and volunteering.

Equal Opportunity

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer.
We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law.
We can reasonably accommodate applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.