S&P Global, Inc

Software Engineer Lead

S&P Global, Inc • $120K — $150K *
Centreville, VA 20120In-Person
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
2 weeks ago
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
  • 7+ years of professional software engineering experience with 2+ years in a lead role.
  • Proven success in delivering enterprise-grade platform initiatives involving migration or consolidation.
  • Strong proficiency in modern programming languages such as Java, C#, Python, Go, or TypeScript.
  • Deep experience in building distributed systems with a focus on reliability and performance.

Responsibilities

  • Lead technical strategy and execution for platform enhancements, migrations, and consolidations.
  • Manage end-to-end delivery from requirements to post-migration stabilization.
  • Set engineering direction through reference architectures and standards.
  • Drive technical decision-making focused on measurable outcomes.
  • Design solutions to reduce duplication across corporate systems.
  • Guide modernization efforts towards API standardization and cloud adoption.
  • Define and execute migration approaches with minimal downtime and risk.

Benefits

  • Collaborative work environment with cross-functional teams.
  • Opportunities for professional development and mentorship.
  • Engagement with diverse technology stacks and platforms.
  • Focus on modern engineering practices and secure-by-design strategies.
  • Participation in operational review processes depending on platform criticality.
Full Job Description
Role Summary

The Software Engineer Lead will own and drive major corporate platform initiatives-modernizing and enhancing core enterprise systems, migrating platforms and workloads, and consolidating tools/technology stacks to improve reliability, security, scalability, and cost-efficiency. Working with the Heads of Corporate Platform teams and the functional business owners, you will lead technical delivery end-to-end: architecture, execution, quality, and operational readiness.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership & Delivery

  • Lead the technical strategy and execution for platform enhancement, migration, and consolidation programs (e.g., application rationalization, shared services adoption, legacy retirement).


  • Own end-to-end delivery: requirements discovery, solution design, implementation, testing, cutover, and post-migration stabilization.


  • Set engineering direction through reference architectures, patterns, standards, and guardrails (performance, resiliency, observability, security).


  • Drive technical decision-making with a bias for measurable outcomes (availability, latency, cost, deployment frequency, incident reduction).


Architecture, Modernization, and Consolidation

  • Design solutions to reduce duplication across corporate systems, including consolidation of services, data stores, CI/CD pipelines, and operational tooling.


  • Guide modernization efforts such as service decomposition, API standardization, event-driven patterns, and cloud/platform adoption where appropriate.


  • Lead integration strategies across identity, access, data, and enterprise applications.


Migration & Cutover Excellence

  • Define migration approaches (rehost, replatform, refactor) and execute with minimal downtime and risk.


  • Create and run cutover plans, including rollback strategies, runbooks, verification checklists, and stakeholder communications.


  • Manage data migration planning: mapping, transformation, validation, reconciliation, and retention/compliance considerations.


Engineering Management (Technical Lead Scope)

  • Lead a team of engineers (directly or matrixed): provide technical guidance, unblock delivery, and uphold high engineering standards.


  • Own code quality practices: design reviews, code reviews, test strategy, and technical documentation.


  • Mentor engineers; build a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and operational ownership.


Reliability, Security, and Operations

  • Ensure production readiness,


  • Partner with security and compliance to implement secure-by-design practices (threat modeling, least privilege, auditability, secrets handling).


  • Drive post-launch improvements using operational insights: incident learnings, performance bottlenecks, and customer feedback.


Stakeholder & Program Collaboration

  • Partner with Corporate platform teams, product, enterprise architecture, infrastructure, IT, and business stakeholders to align roadmap, scope, and sequencing.


  • Translate business goals into technical plans; proactively manage risks, dependencies, and delivery tradeoffs.


  • Communicate progress through concise status updates, technical demos, and executive-ready summaries.


Required Skills

Core Engineering

  • Strong proficiency in one or more modern programming languages (e.g., Java, C#, Python, Go, TypeScript).


  • Deep experience building distributed systems: APIs, services, asynchronous processing, caching, and data persistence.


  • Experience configuring and customizing SAAS applications.


  • Strong SDLC discipline: version control, branching strategies, testing pyramids, and release management.


Platform, Migration, and Consolidation Expertise

  • Proven success leading large-scale migrations (apps and/or data), including phased rollouts and zero/low-downtime strategies.


  • Hands-on experience with legacy modernization and platform consolidation (decommissioning, dependency mapping, migration waves).


Leadership & Communication

  • Strong technical writing: architecture docs, ADRs, runbooks, operational readiness checklists.


  • Ability to influence without authority and drive alignment across multiple teams.


  • Pragmatic decision-making under constraints (timeline, risk, cost, regulatory needs).


Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.


  • 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 2+ years in a lead role (tech lead, staff/lead engineer, or engineering manager with hands-on delivery).


  • Demonstrated delivery of enterprise-grade platform initiatives involving migration and/or consolidation with measurable outcomes.


Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience leading multi-team programs with complex dependencies.


  • Experience with enterprise identity and access patterns (SSO, RBAC), data governance, and audit requirements.


  • Familiarity with domain-driven design, event-driven architectures, and platform engineering practices.


  • Experience with cost optimization and FinOps-style practices in cloud environments.


Success Metrics (Example)

  • Migration/consolidation delivered on schedule with measured reductions in operational cost and system complexity.


  • Improved reliability (e.g., fewer sev-1/2 incidents, higher availability) and better delivery performance (deployment frequency/lead time).


  • Reduced technical debt through decommissioning legacy components and establishing reusable platform capabilities.


  • Strong engineering health: high code quality, clear documentation, predictable releases, and improved on-call outcomes.


Working Model / Collaboration

  • Works closely with: Enterprise Architecture, Security, Infrastructure/Platform, SRE/Operations, Product Management, and Business Owners.


  • May participate in on-call escalation and operational reviews depending on platform criticality.

We require all candidates who reach the final stage of our interview process to attend at least one in-person interview, which is ordinarily at your nearest S&P Global office. This must be completed before we can proceed to an offer.

About S&P Global, Inc

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S&P Global, Inc Careers

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Learn more about S&P Global, Inc
Size
22,850 employees
Market Cap
$107.6 billion
Industry
Finance & Insurance
Net Income
$2.3 billion
Founded
1888
5 Year Trend
+7.9%
Revenue
$7.4 billion
NASDAQ
SPGI
* Ladders Estimates

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