Group Director, Asset and Config Mgmt Engineering

Role profile:

LSEG's Service Asset & Configuration Management (SACM) capability is foundational to the resilience, security, and operational effectiveness of our global technology estate. The Group Director, Asset and Configuration Mgmt. Engineering is a newly created senior leadership role within Infrastructure & Cloud (I&C), accountable for transforming SACM into a unified, authoritative, and highintegrity capability. This role brings enterprise ownership of SACM policy, standards, data models, lifecycle frameworks, and integrated operating processes.

ROLE SUMMARY:

This role provides strategic, architectural, and operational leadership for Asset & Configuration Management across the Group. As LSEG continues to modernize, automate, and scale engineering operations, this role ensures that SACM becomes the backbone for operational intelligence, regulatory compliance, and AIenabled automation. You will define and enforce the enterprise SACM operating model; steward data governance for all asset and configuration items; own the remediation of audit findings across ASLM/CMDB; and drive crosstower adoption of SACM standards. Your leadership will directly shape how LSEG structures, governs, and uses asset and configuration data across infrastructure, cloud, platforms, and services globally.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING:

• Lead the strategy, design, and implementation of LSEG's unified SACM operating model, covering all infrastructure, cloud, platform, and application assets.
• Define and govern enterprise standards for metadata, lineage, quality, lifecycle rules, configuration modelling, and vocabulary for asset and configuration data.
• Architect and oversee the enterprise SACM data model, ensuring CMDB structures, CI classes, discovery pipelines, reconciliation logic, and service mappings are consistent and accurate.
• Drive remediation of audit and controls findings related to Asset Lifecycle Management, CMDB accuracy, configuration compliance, and related processes.
• Implement enterprise lifecycle governance frameworks, including EOL/EOSL tracking, baseline/hardening compliance, patch posture, and backup posture.
• Oversee discovery, CI population, reconciliation, and data quality pipelines, ensuring SACM becomes the authoritative system of record.
• Stand up and lead a cross tower SACM governance council to drive adoption, alignment, and operational consistency.
• Embed SACM into engineering and operational workflows by partnering with Cloud, SRE, TechOps, FinOps, Observability, Audit, GRC, and Enterprise Architecture.
• Ensure seamless integrations across ServiceNow, observability pipelines, automation platforms, and engineering systems to enable operational insights and AI driven engineering.
• Champion a high-quality data culture, establishing KPIs, quality thresholds, lifecycle governance processes, and continuous improvement mechanisms.
  
  

WHAT YOU'LL BRING:

• Deep expertise in Asset & Configuration Management, CMDB modelling, service mapping, and lifecycle governance.
• Proven experience leading large scale engineering, infrastructure, or platform governance initiatives in global, matrixed environments.
• Strong understanding of observability telemetry, operational datasets, dependency maps, and configuration driven automation.
• Fluency in enterprise architecture and asset/configuration data models across cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP).
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders, tower heads, and cross functional engineering leadership.
• Experience driving data quality improvement programs, audit remediation, and technology controls uplift.
• A balanced leadership style combining strategic vision (65%) with operational execution (35%).
• Ability to translate complex, cross domain operational issues into clear priorities and structured action plans.
  
  

WHAT YOU'LL GET IN RETURN:

• Opportunity to transform and modernize SACM as a foundational capability for resilience, automation, compliance, and AI driven operations.
• Influence over enterprise-wide engineering data integrity, operational intelligence, and lifecycle governance.
• Partnership with senior engineering, risk, audit, and operations leaders across LSEG.
• Ownership of a high impact, Group critical function with visibility at SLT and Board governance levels.
• A role designed with strategic breadth and deep technical influence, shaping how LSEG governs its global technology estate.
  
  

ABOUT US:

LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is more than a diversified global financial markets infrastructure and data business. LSEG creates possibility across the financial markets, with a commitment to excellence in delivering the services customers expect, through dedicated, open-access partners. LSEG is a systemically important part of the global financial system. It is the UK's second largest financial services business by market capitalisation, and in the top 10 of the FTSE 100.

A major financial information provider, with extensive experience, deep knowledge, and worldwide presence across financial markets, LSEG enables businesses and economies around the world to fund innovation, manage risk and create jobs. LSEG has contributed to supporting the financial stability and growth of communities and economies globally for more than 300 years.

Through a comprehensive suite of trusted financial market infrastructure services and its open-access model LSEG provides the flexibility, stability and trust that enable their customers to pursue their ambitions with confidence and clarity.

LSEG is headquartered in London, with significant operations in 70 countries across EMEA, North America, Latin America, and Asia Pacific. The Group employs 26,000 people globally, more than half located in Asia Pacific. LSEG's ticker symbol is LSEG.

The core values of the business are integrity, partnership, excellence, and change.

OUR PURPOSE:

LSEG is critical to the global economy and is a high growth company with a recognised track record in innovation and disruption. The company has demonstrated its successful strategy as shown in its strong financial performance. Post the Refinitiv acquisition, LSEG has shifted from a period of integration to transformation. The Group is a proven innovator with its market leading strategic partnership with Microsoft enabling next-gen data, analytics and cloud infrastructure solutions. It is uniquely positioned to capture growth opportunities stemming from four key market trends: digitalisation, sustainability, capital optimisation and operational resilience.

LSEG operates across five divisions:

Data & Analytics: delivering data-driven insights, indices, and products to customers simply and flexibly so they can make better-informed decisions.

FTSE Russell: delivering category defining indices across asset classes and investment objectives to create new possibilities for the global investment community.

Risk Intelligence: providing a comprehensive suite of screening, due diligence, verification and onboarding solutions, helping customers protect their businesses from a wide range of threats.

Markets: supporting customers across the end-to-end capital markets workflow, providing them with access to liquidity across multiple asset classes and regions; supporting their clearing and reporting obligations; and providing risk and balance sheet solutions.

Career Stage:

Group Director

London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) Information:

Join us and be part of a team that values innovation, quality, and continuous improvement. If you're ready to take your career to the next level and make a significant impact, we'd love to hear from you.

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 purpose is the foundation on which our culture is built. Our values of Integrity, Partnership, Excellence and Change underpin our purpose and set the standard for everything we do, every day. They go to the heart of who we are and guide our decision making and everyday actions.

Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 65 countries. However, we will value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce.

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You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas. We are committed to sustainability across our global business and we are proud to partner with our customers to help them meet their sustainability objectives. Our charity, the LSEG Foundation provides charitable grants to community groups that help people access economic opportunities and build a secure future with financial independence. Colleagues can get involved through fundraising and volunteering.

LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.

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