Senior Associate, FX Operations

About the role

LSEG's Markets Operation team is looking for a Senior Associate in FX Operations in Colombo. The role manages operational checks and develops new automation pathways within the infrastructure and change environment. It suits an experienced, composed professional with a strong background in technology and automation, who designs, develops and maintains scalable software solutions that improve operational support, efficiency and system resilience. The position is based at LSEG Malabe.

Key responsibilities

• Identify, design and automate repetitive operational processes, reducing manual effort across critical systems.
• Design, develop and maintain automation frameworks supporting operational checks, system monitoring and testing.
• Implement proactive monitoring to detect anomalies and trigger timely alerts.
• Improve automation performance, reduce failure rates and increase reliability.
• Collaborate with Infrastructure, Engineering, Product and Operations teams to integrate automation into existing platforms.
• Embed AI capabilities into automation frameworks.
• Lead implementation of automation and operational initiatives, and support system upgrades, releases and critical changes.
• Deliver urgent and ad hoc development changes and coordinate with internal and external teams on upgrades and releases.
• Develop dashboards and analytics for management reporting and oversight.
• Contribute to team leadership, onboarding and ad hoc operational coverage.

Required profile

• 4-5 years of experience in Automation Engineering, Operational Engineering or RPA development.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Engineering, Information Technology or a related discipline.
• Experience with automation tools and RPA platforms.
• Experience with Microsoft Power Platform and modern web technologies.
• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines, version control and modern development practices.
• Shift work between 3:30 AM and 8:30 PM on weekdays; flexibility to work Sundays is an added advantage.

Required skills

• RPA and automation: Leapwork, UiPath, Power Automate
• Programming: Python, JavaScript, HTML, JSON
• Monitoring: Datadog, Control-M, Corvil
• CI/CD: GitLab, Bitbucket, Jenkins
• Data and analytics: SQL, Elastic (KQL), Power BI
• Cloud: AWS (Lambda, EC2, S3)
• Microsoft Power Platform, Office 365, ServiceNow, Agile and sprint delivery