Lead, Software Engineering

Grade Level (for internal use):

The Team:

As a member of the S&P Global Market Intelligence Technology team, you will work with a group of intelligent and ambitious engineers. Our software engineers are involved in the full product life cycle, from design through release. You will be expected to participate in design, develop, troubleshoot, and debug software programs for software enhancements and new products. Determine hardware compatibility and/or hardware design and work with a dedicated team of QA Analysts, Business Analysts, and Infrastructure Teams.

The Impact:

The person in this position will be responsible for creating technical designs, developing high-performing web application software, and ensuring quality through a robust testing process. Software Engineers at S&P Global work with the latest technologies and are rewarded for innovation and delivery. This position is part of the team which supports the search application for the company wide product platform which provides essential information to global finance industry and beyond.

Whats in it for you:

• We are currently seeking a Lead Software Developer who enjoys working with new and emerging search technologies
• The person in this position will be working with highly skilled search engineers including Data Scientists and Machine Learning Engineers

Responsibilities:

• Architect, design and develop solutions within a multi-functional Agile team to support key business needs for the platform search application
• Design, implement and test front-end solutions for the web platform application
• Design, implement and test web service/middleware applications leveraging the backend Solr clusters within the search application architecture
• Engineer components, and common services based on standard corporate development models, languages and tools, focusing on integration with Agentic AI Systems
• Collaborate with AI/ML teams to integrate LLM-Based reasoning, agent orchestration
• Apply software engineering best practices while also leveraging automation across all elements of solution delivery
• Collaborate and lead effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders. Must be able to document and demonstrate technical solutions by developing documentation, diagrams, code comments, etc.

What Were Looking For:

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems or Engineering.
• 9-12 years of significant experience developing web services and/or web software development
• Experience in object-oriented design, and design patterns
• Experience in application development using Java, Python, Spring Framework, SQL Server
• Experience with Agentic AI frameworks or interest in working with autonomous AI agents, AI Planning systems, LLM-powered tools
• Familiarity with integrating AI APIs into backend systems,
• Experience in web software development, including HTML5, JavaScript, Node.js and jQuery
• Minimum of 3years experience in working in Search technologies: Solr, Elastic Search, Lucene
• Experience of AWS, auto scaling, Docker EE, and Kubernetes
• Experience of gRPC
• Experience with Machine Learning Models for Application & Data related features is a plus.
• Proficient with Agile software development lifecycle methodologies including a good understanding of Test Driven Development (TDD) and/or Behavior Driven Development (BDD) and experience in using testing frameworks (JUnit, Cucumber, etc.)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in application development using C#, ASP.NET is a plus
• Preferred experience in working with HDFS, ZooKeeper and Message queues (Kafka)
• Preferred experience in large data transfer applications/middleware and comfortable in working with large data volumes