Director, Software Engineering

The Role: Director, Software Engineering The Team: This role partners with global platform, architecture, governance, security, data mastering, and Databricks-aligned teams to ensure offshore delivery aligns with enterprise standards. The team collaborates with partner teams, offshore teams, and upstream/downstream stakeholders to drive data platform initiatives and foster engineering excellence. Drive Data Pipeline Transition and Platform Delivery : Partner with the core Databricks team to plan and execute the transition of existing data pipelines to the target enterprise data platform, implementing repeatable engineering patterns for ingestion, transformation, testing, deployment, and monitoring across onboarded datasets. Champion AI-Assisted Engineering : Lead the adoption of AI-powered development tools like Claude, GitHub CoPilot, and LLMs to increase engineering velocity, code quality, and operational effectiveness, while developing context engineering practices and reusable context packs. Provide Technical Direction for Data Onboarding : Guide offshore teams in defining and operationalizing asset-agnostic onboarding patterns for a broad range of data assets, domains, and source systems, establishing reusable ingestion and processing patterns across batch and streaming use cases. Support Data Mastering Platform Integration : Integrate platform pipelines and datasets with the enterprise data mastering platform, establishing data quality controls, reconciliation processes, and metadata alignment to support trusted mastered data. Influence Semantic Modeling and Data Discoverability : Support practices to create consistent business definitions, reusable data concepts, and governed consumption patterns, partnering with business, architecture, data governance, and platform teams. Drive Technical Influence and Engineering Excellence : Serve as a senior technical expert for offshore data platform engineering, influencing architectural decisions, providing technical guidance to engineers and partner teams, and contributing to design/code reviews for complex data platform initiatives. An S&P Global employee at this level would typically have 10+ years of experience in data engineering, data platforms, cloud data architecture, software engineering, or related engineering domains. Demonstrated experience operating as a senior Individual Contributor, technical lead, principal engineer, staff engineer, distinguished engineer, architect, or equivalent role in complex data platform environments. Strong hands-on experience with modern data engineering and pipeline development, including batch and/or streaming data workflows, and experience with Databricks-based data platforms and lakehouse-oriented architectures. Practical experience using AI-assisted engineering tools such as Claude, GitHub CoPilot, LLMs, or similar, and experience applying LLMs to engineering use cases like code generation and optimization. We require all external 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. Familiarity with enterprise data cataloging, metadata management, business glossary, lineage, operational metadata platforms, or semantic data layers. Experience with NeoXam DataHub or NeoXam-style mastering workflows, including consolidation, cleansing, enrichment, and trusted downstream distribution of mastered data. Knowledge of semantic modeling for designing consistent business definitions, improving data discoverability, and supporting governed data consumption. Strong Leadership skills: including coaching, empowering others to maximize their performance, and working to build consensus across groups with competing priorities. Final base salary for this role will be based on the individual's geographic location, as well as experience level, skill set, training, licenses and certifications. This role is not eligible for additional compensation such as an annual incentive bonus or sales commission plan. Include for roles that are bonus plan eligible, including sales commission plans. At S&P Dow Jones Indices, we provide iconic and innovative index solutions backed by unparalleled expertise across the asset-class spectrum. We're the largest global resource for index-based concepts, data and research, and home to iconic financial market indicators, such as the S&P 500® and the Dow Jones Industrial Average®. More assets are invested in products based upon our indices than any other index provider in the world. With over USD 7.4 trillion in passively managed assets linked to our indices and over USD 11.3 trillion benchmarked to our indices, our solutions are widely considered indispensable in tracking market performance, evaluating portfolios and developing investment strategies. 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. Advancing Essential Intelligence. 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. Join us and help create the critical insights that truly make a difference. 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. Health & Wellness: Health care coverage designed for the mind and body. Flexible Downtime: Generous time off helps keep you energized for your time on. 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. Recruitment Fraud Alert: S&P Global never requires any candidate to pay money for job applications, interviews, offer letters, "pre-employment training" or for equipment/delivery of equipment. Stay informed and protect yourself from recruitment fraud by reviewing our guidelines, fraudulent domains, and how to report suspicious activity here. 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