Senior Application Engineer - Site Reliability Engineering

About the role

LSEG is looking for a Senior Application Engineer to join its Regulatory Reporting & Data Platforms team in Colombo. The role sits at the intersection of application engineering, data warehousing, cloud technologies and operational excellence, supporting platforms that deliver regulatory, financial and member reporting services across global markets. You will work closely with business stakeholders, data engineers, software developers, infrastructure teams and product partners.

Key responsibilities

• Support and maintain business-critical applications in Production, UAT and Pre-Production environments, monitor platform health and solve incidents with root cause analysis.
• Support enterprise data warehouse and reporting platforms, optimise SQL queries, investigate data quality and reconciliation issues, and contribute to ETL/ELT solutions.
• Develop data visualisation solutions, operational reporting dashboards and KPI/KRI dashboards.
• Design and implement enhancements and defect fixes, automate manual processes and workflows, and contribute to modernisation and cloud adoption.
• Take part in incident, problem and change processes, support releases and deployments, and share knowledge and documentation.
• Partner with business, product, development, data and infrastructure teams.

Required profile

• Curious, collaborative engineer passionate about reliable, data-driven solutions.
• Experience in several of the listed areas, such as data warehousing, data engineering, cloud platforms, monitoring and DevOps practices.
• Nice to have: regulatory reporting platforms, financial markets or clearing exposure, SAP Business Objects, Control-M, SnowPro certification, AWS/Azure certifications, ITIL Foundation, data governance and metadata management, and AI tools for engineering automation.

Required skills

• Data: strong SQL, Snowflake, query tuning, DBT, Apache Airflow or MWAA, Python, Unix/Linux shell scripting, PowerShell.
• Cloud: AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, API Gateway, VPC) or Microsoft Azure equivalents.
• Monitoring and reliability: Datadog, application monitoring, dashboards, performance and capacity analysis.
• DevOps: GitLab, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), Agile, release automation.
• Data visualisation: Power BI, reporting and analytics standards, self-service analytics platforms.