Engineering Lead – Product Development – Commercial Portfolio

S&P Global; London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job description

About the Role:

Grade Level (for internal use):

14

As head of engineering over the Commercial Connectivity value stream you will be responsible for architecting, developing, and managing key enablers for the business’s success. This includes Commercial Desktop, a new platform which integrates with Salesforce to support internal workflows across Ratings’ Commercial and Finance teams, as well as a suite of shared business service and content distribution channels. Your work will enable internal teams to improve operational processes and is accountable for distribution of Ratings content to external platforms such as Ratings Website, Ratings360, RatingsDirect, and RatingsXpress.

You will engage with stakeholders across Ratings’ Commercial and Finance functions. You’ll work closely with stakeholders across S&P Global divisions and will establish a close working relationship with counterparts within the corporate technology team to align and support corporate and cross-divisional initiatives.

You will manage a global staff of software engineers across value streams and partner with your Product Management and Quality peers to support agile scrum teams across the globe.

Key Responsibilities:

• Product Development
  • Implement the overall technical strategy for product development, ensuring alignment with business objectives and market demands.
  • Architect high-performance, scalable, and reliable services that meet the needs of cross-functional teams, with a focus on modularity, maintainability, and reusability of solutions.
  • Collaborate with product management, design, and other stakeholders to define product roadmaps and ensure timely, high-quality delivery of features.
  • Oversee the development of new product features and enhancements, ensuring that they are scalable, reliable, and meet customer needs.
• Leadership & Team Development
  • Lead and inspire a team of software engineers, architects, and engineering managers, ensuring high performance and professional growth.
  • Cultivate a high-performance culture, emphasizing accountability, innovation, collaboration, and quality.
  • Establish and maintain development processes, methodologies, and best practices that ensure high-quality product delivery and operational efficiency.
  • Mentor and guide engineering leadership, providing direction on both technical and operational aspects of product development.
• Technical Oversight & Innovation
  • Oversee the architecture and design of complex software systems, ensuring robust and scalable solutions.
  • Balance technical priorities with business goals to deliver innovative products while ensuring operational efficiency.
  • Lead the adoption of modern technologies, tools, and frameworks that improve software performance, scalability, and maintainability.
  • Stay current with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices to drive innovation within the engineering team.
• Cross Functional Collaboration
  • Serve as the primary technical liaison between engineering, senior leadership, other departments, other divisions, and corporate stakeholders to ensure clear communication and alignment on priorities.
  • Partner with product management, UX/UI design, marketing, and other cross-functional teams to align on product vision, goals, and deliverables.
  • Manage and resolve dependencies across teams, ensuring smooth and efficient project execution.
• Operational Excellence & Risk Management
  • Identify and mitigate technical risks and obstacles, ensuring that the product development pipeline runs smoothly and efficiently.
  • Ensure the security, performance, and scalability of products through proactive monitoring and improvements.
  • Ensure adherence to high coding standards, software quality, and efficient development processes, including continuous integration and deployment practices.
  • Implement key performance indicators (KPIs) to track the progress of product development initiatives, ensuring milestones are met.

Qualifications:

• Experience:
  • 15+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 5+ years in a senior leadership role and managing software teams.
  • Proven track record of leading and scaling engineering teams in a product-focused environment.
  • Extensive experience in software development lifecycle management, from product conception through deployment and iteration.
  • Experience in managing large-scale, complex product development efforts and ensuring cross-functional team alignment.
• Technical Skills:
  • Strong technical background with hands-on experience in modern software development technologies (e.g., Java, Python, microservices, cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, etc.).
  • Expertise in software architecture, data architecture, and system design, with an ability to lead and influence technical decision-making.
  • Drive innovation toward building high-scalable, real-time data pipelines and data distribution solutions.
  • Experience with enterprise integration patterns, including event-driven architectures and messaging systems.
• Leadership & Collaboration:
  • Comfortable acting as the primary interface with senior leaders, stakeholders, and executives, driving consensus across competing objectives.
  • Exceptional leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to motivate and engage teams across multiple disciplines.
  • Manage multiple stakeholders, complex projects, and large cross-product collaborations.
  • Influence peer leaders and senior stakeholders across the business, product, and technology teams.
  • Ability to balance short-term tactical needs with long-term strategic goals.
• Education:
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).

About S&P Global Ratings: S&P Global Ratings is the world’s leading provider of independent credit ratings. Our ratings are essential to driving growth, providing transparency and helping educate market participants so they can make decisions with confidence. We have more than 1 million credit ratings outstanding on government, corporate, financial sector and structured finance entities and securities. We offer an independent view of the market built on a unique combination of broad perspective and local insight. We provide our opinions and research about relative credit risk; market participants gain independent information to help support the growth of transparent, liquid debt markets worldwide. S&P Global Ratings is a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI), which provides essential intelligence for individuals, companies and governments to make decisions with confidence. For more information, visit spglobal.com/ratings.

About S&P Global Ratings:
At S&P Global Ratings, our analyst-driven credit ratings, research, and sustainable finance opinions provide critical insights that are essential to translating complexity into clarity so market participants can uncover opportunities and make decisions with conviction. By bringing transparency to the market through high-quality independent opinions on creditworthiness, we enable growth across a wide variety of organizations, including businesses, governments, and institutions.

S&P Global Ratings is a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI). S&P Global is the world’s foremost provider of credit ratings, benchmarks, analytics and workflow solutions in the global capital, commodity and automotive markets. With every one of our offerings, we help many of the world’s leading organizations navigate the economic landscape so they can plan for tomorrow, today.

For more information, visit www.spglobal.com/ratings.

What’s In It For You?

Our Purpose:

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Our world is in transition and getting more complex by the day. We push past expected observations and seek out new levels of understanding so that we can help companies, governments and individuals make an impact on tomorrow. At S&P Global we transform data into Essential Intelligence, pinpointing risks and opening possibilities. We Accelerate Progress.

Our People:

We're more than 35,000 strong worldwide—so we're able to understand nuances while having a broad perspective. Our team is driven by curiosity and a shared belief that Essential Intelligence can help build a more prosperous future for us all.

From finding new ways to measure sustainability to analyzing energy transition across the supply chain to building workflow solutions that make it easy to tap into insight and apply it. We are changing the way people see things and empowering them to make an impact on the world we live in. We’re committed to a more equitable future and to helping our customers find new, sustainable ways of doing business. We’re constantly seeking new solutions that have progress in mind. Join us and help create the critical insights that truly make a difference.

Our Values:

Integrity, Discovery, Partnership

At S&P Global, we focus on Powering Global Markets. Throughout our history, the world's leading organizations have relied on us for the Essential Intelligence they need to make confident decisions about the road ahead. We start with a foundation of integrity in all we do, bring a spirit of discovery to our work, and collaborate in close partnership with each other and our customers to achieve shared goals.

Benefits:

We take care of you, so you cantake care of business. We care about our people. That’s why we provide everything you—and your career—need to thrive at S&P Global.

Our benefits include:

• Health & Wellness: Health care coverage designed for the mind and body.

• Flexible Downtime: Generous time off helps keep you energized for your time on.

• Continuous Learning: Access a wealth of resources to grow your career and learn valuable new skills.

• Invest in Your Future: Secure your financial future through competitive pay, retirement planning, a continuing education program with a company-matched student loan contribution, and financial wellness programs.

• Family Friendly Perks: It’s not just about you. S&P Global has perks for your partners and little ones, too, with some best-in class benefits for families.

• Beyond the Basics: From retail discounts to referral incentive awards—small perks can make a big difference.

For more information on benefits by country visit: https://spgbenefits.com/benefit-summaries

Inclusive Hiring and Opportunity at S&P Global:

At S&P Global, we are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all individuals have access to opportunities based on their skills, experience, and contributions. Our hiring practices emphasize fairness, transparency, and equal opportunity, ensuring that we attract and retain top talent. By valuing different perspectives and promoting a culture of respect and collaboration, we drive innovation and power global markets.

S&P Global has a Securities Disclosure and Trading Policy (“the Policy”) that seeks to mitigate conflicts of interest by monitoring and placing restrictions on personal securities holding and trading. The Policy is designed to promote compliance with global regulations. In some Divisions, pursuant to the Policy’s requirements, candidates at S&P Global may be asked to disclose securities holdings. Some roles may include a trading prohibition and remediation of positions when there is an effective or potential conflict of interest. Employment at S&P Global is contingent upon compliance with the Policy.

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Equal Opportunity Employer

S&P Global is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race/ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, marital status, military veteran status, unemployment status, or any other status protected by law. Only electronic job submissions will be considered for employment.

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