Lead II, Software Development

S&P Global; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

S&P Global in New York City seeks an Associate Director of Software Engineering to deliver solutions for the Municipal Bond Issuance platform. You will drive architecture decisions while remaining hands-on in design, code reviews, and troubleshooting.

You will guide AI-enabled engineering practices, modernizing AWS-based systems with API-first, microservices, and cloud-native patterns, mentoring engineers and shaping technical direction across strategic initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 12+ years of software engineering experience building enterprise-scale applications.
• Proven ability to influence technical direction and drive initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of strategic initiatives, platform enhancements, and modernization efforts while actively contributing to the codebase.
• Own solution architecture, technical design, and hands-on technical leadership throughout the software delivery lifecycle.
• Identify and modernize AWS-hosted platforms through service decomposition, API-first design, microservices, and cloud-native practices.
• Drive AI-assisted engineering practices across the SDLC including requirements analysis, design, development, testing, and support.
• Build PoCs and reference implementations to accelerate adoption of new technologies.
• Evaluate emerging technologies to improve delivery, software quality, and developer productivity.
• Conduct code reviews and establish engineering standards and best practices.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues and provide hands-on guidance.
• Support production systems and drive operational excellence, incident management, and monitoring.
• Contribute to disaster recovery, security, and compliance initiatives.
• Partner with product to translate requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Own project planning, estimation, risk management, and stakeholder alignment.
• Mentor engineers and foster technical excellence.

Skills

Architectural leadership

API-first design

Microservices

AWS

AI-enabled engineering

Mentoring engineers

DevOps (CI/CD, GitHub/GitLab)

Problem solving

Financial services domain

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or related field

Tools

GitHub

GitLab

Terraform

Docker

Job description

About the Role:

We are seeking an experienced Associate Director of Software Engineering to deliver solutions for our Municipal Bond Issuance platform while actively contributing to the codebase, driving architectural decisions, and providing technical leadership across strategic initiatives, regulatory programs, and business-as-usual enhancements.

This is a highly hands-on technical leadership role. You will remain actively engaged in software development, architecture, solution design, code reviews, troubleshooting, and proof-of-concept development while leading project delivery and mentoring engineers.

The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in modern software engineering, API-first and microservices architectures, AWS-based application development, and AI-assisted engineering practices. Beyond delivering projects, you will introduce technologies, best practices, and AI-driven engineering practices that accelerate modernization, improve engineering effectiveness, and strengthen the team's technical capabilities.

What's in it for you

We leverage modern technologies and engineering practices including AWS, .NET, C#, Angular, SQL Server, AI-enabled development platforms, CI/CD automation, observability tools, and cloud-native design patterns. You will have the opportunity to influence technical direction and drive modernization initiatives while working on systems that support critical business workflows across the municipal bond issuance lifecycle.

You will work in a collaborative environment focused on innovation, operational resilience, continuous improvement, and customer success.

What You'll Work On

• Lead delivery of strategic initiatives, platform enhancements, and modernization efforts while actively contributing to the codebase.

• Own solution architecture, technical design, and hands-on technical leadership throughout software delivery lifecycle.

• Identify and execute opportunities to modernize existing AWS-hosted platforms through service decomposition, API-first design, microservices, event-driven architectures, and cloud-native engineering practices.

• Drive adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices across the software development lifecycle, including requirements analysis, solution design, development, testing, documentation, code review, and operational support.

• Build proof-of-concepts and reference implementations to accelerate adoption of new technologies and engineering practices.

• Evaluate and introduce emerging technologies, frameworks, and engineering practices that improve delivery effectiveness, software quality, and developer productivity.

• Perform code reviews and establish engineering standards, design patterns, and development best practices.

• Troubleshoot complex technical and production issues, providing hands-on guidance and resolution.

• Support production systems and drive operational excellence through incident management, root cause analysis, monitoring, and performance optimization.

• Contribute to disaster recovery, security, compliance, and operational resiliency initiatives.

• Partner with product team to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.

• Own project planning, estimation, execution, risk management, dependency tracking and stakeholder alignment.

• Mentor engineers and foster technical excellence across the team.

What We Look For

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.

• 12+ years of software engineering experience building enterprise-scale applications.

• Proven ability to influence technical direction and drive initiatives through technical expertise and demonstrated results.

• Strong hands-on experience with .NET, C#, ASP.NET, SQL Server, RESTful APIs, Angular and distributed systems

• Strong architecture and system design experience including API-first, microservices and cloud native architectures.

• Proven experience modernizing monolithic applications and evolving them towards cloud-native and service-oriented architectures.

• Strong understanding of software architecture, distributed systems, enterprise integration patterns, scalability and resiliency.

• Experience with DevOps practices including CI/CD, GitHub and/or GitLab, Terraform, containerization, and infrastructure automation.

• Experience with security remediation, compliance initiatives, and highly regulated environments.

• Proven ability to deliver complex technology initiatives from conception through production deployment.

• Strong project planning, execution, stakeholder management, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

• Ability and willingness to remain technically engaged while leading project delivery and mentoring engineers.

• Strong sense of ownership, accountability, urgency, and delivery focus.

• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving abilities.

• Experience in financial services, capital markets, fixed income, municipal domain.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building or integrating AI-powered solutions, using LLMs, RAG, AI agents, intelligent automation or related technologies.

• Hands-on experience leveraging AI-assisted software development tools and workflows to improve developer productivity, code quality, testing, documentation, and delivery efficiency.