About the Role:

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S&P Global Commodity Insights

Director, Software Engineering

The Team:
S&P Global Commodity Insights empowers organizations to create long-term, sustainable value by providing data and insights for a comprehensive view of the global energy and commodities markets.

The Impact:
You will play a crucial role in developing products for the Environmental Solutions group. As Director, you'll lead engineering teams and help define enterprise and application architectures, APIs, information models, and interoperability frameworks while managing technology.

What’s in it for you:

• Build and manage a team of talented software engineers with the ability to not only keep up with, but also pioneer, in this space.
• Collaborate with and influence leadership so that your teams’ work directly impacts company strategy and direction.
• Develop deep partnerships with engineering and product teams to deliver on major cross-functional measurements and testing.
• Communicate effectively at all organizational levels, including with executives.
• Provide success in partnering teams with dramatically varying backgrounds, from the highly technical to the highly creative.
• Experience instills a culture of ownership, collaboration, and results.
• Track record of recruiting talent in software engineering and data engineering.
• Ability to translate business concepts into a technical architecture
• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams to define priorities and develop roadmaps
• Project management skills
• Demonstrated intellectual and analytical rigor, strong attention to detail
• Team-oriented, energetic, collaborative, diplomatic, and flexible style.

Responsibilities:

• Provides leadership in the execution and delivery of technology solutions to support business applications.
• Define, develop, and manage technical architecture for Environmental Solutions projects, including cloud infrastructure, APIs, microservices, integration patterns, and data platforms.
• Own and drive the Information Modelling workstream, creating comprehensive conceptual, logical, and physical data models to ensure consistency, flexibility, and scalability.
• This includes leading and coordinating activities throughout development, ensuring the appropriate use of standard models and software packages, as well as standard methods of integration, and developing common application services.
• Ensure that the best development processes and technologies are used in the design, construction, and implementation of applications.
• Ensures timely delivery of the application development projects without compromising the quality and performance of the system
• Drive innovation and continuous learning, staying informed about emerging technologies relevant to environmental and sustainability solutions.

What We’re Looking For:

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years of experience in application development (including application architecture, information modelling, data governance, software development, and system integration).
• 6+ years of people management experience with 2+ years of managing managers
• Deep expertise and proven ownership of information modelling and data architecture practices, including metadata management, conceptual/logical/physical modelling, and data governance.
• Proven hands-on experience with API design, microservices architectures, cloud computing, Kubernetes (k8s), containerization, ETL, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong technical knowledge of cybersecurity standards, risk management practices, data privacy, and regulatory compliance.
• Exceptional documentation and diagramming skills (UML or equivalent).
• Excellent interpersonal, negotiation, and influencing skills, able to effectively communicate complex technical concepts across various teams and levels of the organization.
• Critical thinking, abstract problem-solving ability, strong analytical skills, and attention to detail.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proven experience in designing and implementing systems related to commodity markets, including trading platforms.
• Familiarity with market mechanisms and regulations governing carbon trading and environmental credits.
• Experience working with environmental registries that track carbon credits, renewable energy certificates, or other sustainability-related data.
• Understanding of compliance requirements and best practices for data management within environmental registries.

Personal Attributes:

• Highly motivated, proactive, and capable of independent decision-making with emphasis on driving specific, measurable and value-adding goals
• Creative thinker with a strong focus on efficient and reusable solutions and continuous improvement.
• Ability to collaborate effectively in geographically dispersed and diverse teams.
• Detail-oriented, with a strong commitment to excellence in architecture and systems design.

Right to work requirements:

This role is limited to persons with indefinite right to work in the United States.
Compensation/Benefits Information (This section is only applicable to US candidates)

Compensation:
S&P Global states that the anticipated base salary range for this position is $160,000 to $210,000 (USD) . 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.
In addition to base compensation, this role is eligible for an annual incentive plan. This role is not eligible for additional compensation such as an annual incentive bonus or sales commission plan. This role is eligible to receive additional S&P Global benefits. For more information on the benefits we provide to our employees, please click here.

About S&P Global Commodity Insights
At S&P Global Commodity Insights, our complete view of global energy and commodities markets enables our customers to make decisions with conviction and create long-term, sustainable value.

We’re a trusted connector that brings together thought leaders, market participants, governments, and regulators to co-create solutions that lead to progress. Vital to navigating Energy Transition, S&P Global Commodity Insights’ coverage includes oil and gas, power, chemicals, metals, agriculture and shipping.

S&P Global Commodity Insights 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 http://www.spglobal.com/commodity-insights.

What’s In It For You?

Our Purpose:

Progress is not a self-starter. It requires a catalyst to be set in motion. Information, imagination, people, technology–the right combination can unlock possibility and change the world.

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 can take 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

Global Hiring and Opportunity at S&P Global:

At S&P Global, we are committed to fostering a connected and engaged workplace where all individuals have access to opportunities based on their skills, experience, and contributions. Our hiring practices emphasize fairness, transparency, and merit, 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.