Senior Sales Engineer

S&P Global Inc.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care coverage

Generous time off

Continuous learning

Retirement planning

Education program with student loan‑or

Family friendly perks

Other employee discounts

Job summary

S&P Global is seeking a Private Markets Solutions Engineer to join a cross-functional team that blends data science, AI, and software engineering. You will work with sales, product, and services to demonstrate and scope technically complex solutions for financial institutions managing private market portfolios.

You will provide product expertise, participate in demonstrations, and help shape offerings through market feedback. Travel to client sites may be required as part of engagements.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in technical and/or customer-facing roles with SaaS products.
• Strong communication and presentation skills across technical, GTM, and senior business users.
• Growth mindset, ability to learn quickly in a rapidly evolving market.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel for data analysis and modelling.
• Knowledge of LLMs and willingness to travel.

Responsibilities

• Articulate how S&P Global supports private markets and explain value during sales processes.
• Contribute to product demonstrations, RFI/RFP responses, workshops, and POC scoping.
• Scope solutions to ensure post-sales success and drive market feedback to leadership.
• Stay current on private markets trends, portfolio monitoring software, and AI impacts in finance.

Skills

SaaS experience

Communication

Analytical thinking

Excel modelling

Travel willingness

Tools

RESTful APIs

LLMs ( Claude / ChatGPT / Gemini / Copilot )

Job description

About the Role

Grade Level (for internal use): 11

About the Role: The Team: At S&P Global, our Private Markets business delivers market-leading data, technology, and valuation solutions designed for financial institutions investing in alternative assets. Through our flagship offerings, including iLEVEL, With Intelligence, Private Market Valuations, and Capital IQ, allocators and asset owners access the data, insights, and workflows they need to make faster, more informed investment decisions with confidence. Our solutions are trusted by many of the world's leading financial institutions. Today, more than 700 firms use iLEVEL for portfolio monitoring and reporting, 30,000+ investor profiles are available through With Intelligence, 60 million+ private company profiles are accessible via Capital IQ, and our Private Market Valuations team values 12,000+ private assets annually. Together, these capabilities provide a unique and connected view of the private markets ecosystem. You will join an experienced and collaborative team that combines deep industry expertise with specialists in technology, data science, artificial intelligence, and software engineering. Our team includes industry professionals alongside operators from high growth technology companies who are creating a 360 view across all private markets.

The Impact

The Private Markets Solutions Engineering team, within our Enterprise Solutions business at S&P Global, is a technical group that sits at the intersection of data, services and technology as it relates to private markets. Working across sales, account management, product, research & development and operations, this team owns the technical side of the customer lifecycle, from the very first discovery call, through demos, POC, technical scoping and handover to our professional services team. This role will give you the opportunity to grow across all these areas, with the chance to have a real impact on the value we deliver to our customers.

Responsibilities and Impact

Learning to tell a clear value story about how and where S&P Global supports financial institutions with the management and monitoring of their private market portfolios. Provide product expertise during the sales process, by becoming proficient in what discovery is and using it to understand the challenges of our clients. Then feed this into product demonstrations, RFI/RFP responses, Workshops and POC's. Handling detailed scoping of solutions to ensure that customers are set up for success post-sales. Providing expertise internally to materially drive the business by providing critical market feedback to senior business leaders and product management to inform future development. Stay up to date with the latest trends and developments in the Private Markets, Portfolio Monitoring software space, and the consistent evolution of AI and its impact on finance markets.

What We’re Looking For

Basic Required Qualifications: 5+ years of experience working in technical and/or customer facing roles involving SaaS products, such as, solutions, technical account management, or engineering. Private Markets, Financial Services, and practical valuations experience is also sought after.

Exceptional communication and presentational skills, where technical, go-to-market and senior level business users should all feel like comfortable counterparts in conversing with you. Growth mindset is critical in being able to learn new things quickly, adapt to a rapidly evolving market and operate in an industry that values high agency. Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including data analysis and modelling. Strong analytical skills and problem-solving ability. Experience with LLMs (Claude, Chat GPT, Gemini, and Copilot) are a plus. Willingness to travel.

Bonus Points Knowledge of Private Markets and/or experience in financial analysis, including an understanding of private capital flows and the ability to interpret financial statements. Experience performing or overseeing valuations of private market investments, including private equity, venture capital, real assets, and private credit, with expertise in valuation methodologies, valuation governance, audit readiness, and fair value reporting. Experience with RESTful Application Programming Interfaces (API) Ability to handle objections when challenged in a one-on-many situations.

Highly motivated, positive, entrepreneurial, can-do attitude, creative, ownership driven, intellectually curious, dynamic, confident, professional and goal oriented.

About S&P Global Market Intelligence

At S&P Global Market Intelligence, a division of S&P Global we understand the importance of accurate, deep and insightful information. Our team of experts delivers unrivaled insights and leading data and technology solutions, partnering with customers to expand their perspective, operate with confidence, and make decisions with conviction. For more information, visit www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence.

What’s In It For You?

Our Mission: Advancing Essential Intelligence.

Our People: We're more than 35,000 strong worldwide—so we're able to understand nuances while having a broad perspective. 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. Join us and help create the critical insights that truly make a difference.

Our Values: Integrity, Discovery, Partnership 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

• 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.

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