Location
London

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
The Senior Manager, Engineering Transformation will lead strategic initiatives to optimise 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 build and execute sustainable cost optimisation strategies that reduce run-rate costs, improve commercial outcomes, enhance licence utilisation, and strengthen financial discipline across Engineering. You will identify, structure, and accelerate transformational opportunities delivering material, measurable, and auditable savings while supporting LSEG’s technology and business strategy.

You will build and maintain Engineering’s long-term cost optimisation strategy across software, cloud, infrastructure, platforms, tooling, services, and vendor spend. Key responsibilities include identifying high-value opportunities through spend analysis, benchmarking, usage assessments, licence inventories, demand forecasts, and architectural reviews. You will establish repeatable approaches, frameworks, and governance to enable sustainable cost management across Engineering.

Additional duties include leading strategies to optimise major software licensing portfolios, driving software asset management maturity through improved inventory, entitlement, utilisation, and compliance processes, reducing duplicate tooling, consolidating vendors, improving licence utilisation, and eliminating under-used products. You will 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 organisations, and influence senior stakeholders to prioritise cost optimisation alongside resilience, performance, delivery, and innovation objectives.

This role offers a unique opportunity to shape Engineering’s cost transformation agenda across LSEG, working directly with senior leadership and strategic partners to deliver sustainable savings, improve commercial effectiveness, and build the capabilities and governance required to optimise a multi-hundred-million-pound engineering cost base.

About LSEG
LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is a diversified global financial markets infrastructure and data business with over 300 years of history. Headquartered in the UK, LSEG operates in 70 countries with 25,000 employees worldwide. The organisation is dedicated to enabling businesses and economies to fund innovation, manage risk, and create jobs through trusted financial market infrastructure services and an open-access model. LSEG values integrity, partnership, excellence, and change, fostering an inclusive culture where everyone can grow and fulfil their potential.

LSEG is committed to diversity, equality, and inclusion, providing a collaborative and creative culture that encourages new ideas and supports sustainability initiatives. The company offers a range of tailored benefits including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days, and wellbeing initiatives.

Experience
Significant experience leading technology, engineering, operational, or cost transformation initiatives within a complex enterprise environment. Demonstrable success delivering material cost savings and commercial outcomes across software, technology, or engineering organisations. Strong understanding of software licensing models, software asset management, vendor management, and technology procurement. Experience 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.

About you
You are a strategic thinker with excellent stakeholder management skills, able to influence senior leaders and drive change across multiple teams. You have a collaborative approach and thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. You are commercially savvy, detail-oriented, and passionate about delivering measurable business impact through cost optimisation and transformation initiatives.

Qualifications
While specific qualifications are not detailed, experience within financial services or other highly regulated industries is desirable. Familiarity with FinOps, TBM, Apptio, Cloudability, or similar tooling is advantageous. Experience supporting large-scale software renewals, supplier negotiations, or sourcing activities is preferred. Knowledge of cloud economics, licence optimisation, and technology portfolio rationalisation is beneficial.