Grade Level (for internal use): 11The Role
As a Principal Software Engineer, you will design, create and maintain high-quality cloud-based applications to help S&P Globals Private Valuations and Assessments business grow. You will be working with a team of experienced application/web developers (in multiple global locations), business analysts and business stakeholders.
Day to day, you will contribute to current and future technology architectural designs and development efforts towards various different modules of S&P Global Private Valuations and Assessments solutions. You will have access to market-leading tools and services, and be part of a wider group that values technical excellence.
The Team We are an established development team, looking to grow, innovation and push the boundaries of what's possible in software development. We prioritize providing an excellent developer experience, which means you'll have access to market-leading tools, services and learning, as well as expertise from both our team and the wider organization.
You'll work in a strong DevOps culture, where we've automated every stage of our deployment pipeline, allowing you to focus on what you do best. Youll have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology and use AI productivity tools and AI models as standard.
Responsibilities Candidate needs to:
- Be an active player in system architecture and design discussions. Have a passion for technology and offer new ideas and approaches. Recommend product, process, and tooling improvements.
- Analyse business requirements, design, implement and test features. Understand non-functional requirements like performance, scalability etc. aspect of the application.
- Be delivery focused. Participate in agile product development through all SDLC phases.
- Build high-quality, reusable code and libraries for future use in a timely and efficient manner.
- Work closely with the QA and Business teams and highlight issues and risks proactively.
- Embrace quality standards including: code conventions, code reviews, unit testing, static analysis and revision control. Coordinate with QA/QC staff for product functional and system testing.
- Maintain and support all areas of the application.
- Work in an individual capacity as well as in teams across geographies.
- Work under the general supervision of the Development Manager and take direction from other Leads within the organization where required.
Business competencies Education and experience
6-10 years strong technical and platform knowledge, including some or all of:
Required
- Java
- Thorough understanding of agile software development methodology and industry best practices.
- Thorough understanding of fundamental software engineering and computer science principles: object-oriented design, functional programming, structured design, databases, algorithms, data structures, usability, refactoring, debugging, and configuration management.
- Excellent design and problem solving skills and disciplined, engineering oriented mind set.
- Minimum 5 years of experience developing commercial web applications or services used by external customers.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including presentation skills.
- Experience of Cloud Development preferably AWS and AWS Cloud Products
Desirable
- AWS Lambda and Serverless Architecture
- SQL
- AWS managed services, Linux, Containerization Platform
- Scala (or other functional programming experience)
- Angular 18+
- JavaScript/TypeScript
- Spring
- Other JVM languages
- Experience with Continuous Integration and build systems
- Git + Gitlab/Github
- Good degree in Computer Science, Engineering or Numerate field
- Experience with configuration languages (CloudFormation, Terraform, etc.)
Commercial awareness
- Knowledge of Private Market Valuations and/or Financial Sector is advantageous
Leadership
- Ability to lead design and development of a new or existing project/service
- Display commitment to own features and take them to successful delivery
Personal competencies Personal impact
- Must work effectively with a diverse team spread across globe
- Strong analytical, investigative and problem solving skills
- Proactive, organised and able to work independently with minimal supervision
- Self-motivated and enthusiastic
- Open minded, flexible and willing to adapt to changing situations
- Delivery focused
Communication
- Must be an excellent communicator, both written and verbally
Teamwork
- Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to work with a diverse team, including team members overseas