Associate Director, Software Engineering

Grade Level (for internal use): 12 Overview 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. You’ll have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology and use AI productivity tools and AI models as standard. The Business Private Valuations and Assessments S&P Global’s Private Market Valuations offers private asset managers and investors valuations services and software including: Private Credit Valuations - accurate valuations on hard-to-value debt instruments Private Equity Valuations - unlisted equity valuations Qval - software solution to support your in-house valuations. S&P Global’s Credit Assessment Scorecards provide credit and investment management professionals with essential tools to identify and manage potential default risks of private, publicly-traded, rated, and unrated companies and government entities, across a wide range of sectors. The Company At the heart of S&P Global, we are an information company. With expertise across the world’s largest industries we leverage technology and data science to provide the data, insights and software to help our customers make better informed decisions, driving growth, performance and efficiency.

As a Lead II, Software Engineer, you will design, create and maintain high-quality cloud-based applications to help S&P Global’s 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.  Duties & accountabilities 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 12+ 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,