Software Engineer Lead

About the Role:

Grade Level (for internal use): 11

S&P Global has recently announced the intent to separate our Mobility Segment into a standalone public company.

The Software Engineer Lead will own and drive major corporate platform initiatives—modernizing and enhancing core enterprise systems, migrating platforms and workloads, and consolidating tools/technology stacks to improve reliability, security, scalability, and cost-efficiency. Working with the Heads of Corporate Platform teams and the functional business owners, you will lead technical delivery end-to-end: architecture, execution, quality, and operational readiness.

• Lead the technical strategy and execution for platform enhancement, migration, and consolidation programs (e.g., application rationalization, shared services adoption, legacy retirement).
• Own end-to-end delivery: requirements discovery, solution design, implementation, testing, cutover, and post‑migration stabilization.
• Set engineering direction through reference architectures, patterns, standards, and guardrails (performance, resiliency, observability, security).
• Drive technical decision‑making with a bias for measurable outcomes (availability, latency, cost, deployment frequency, incident reduction).

• Design solutions to reduce duplication across corporate systems, including consolidation of services, data stores, CI/CD pipelines, and operational tooling.
• Guide modernization efforts such as service decomposition, API standardization, event‑driven patterns, and cloud/platform adoption where appropriate.
• Lead integration strategies across identity, access, data, and enterprise applications.

• Define migration approaches (rehost, replatform, refactor) and execute with minimal downtime and risk.
• Create and run cutover plans, including rollback strategies, runbooks, verification checklists, and stakeholder communications.
• Manage data migration planning: mapping, transformation, validation, reconciliation, and retention/compliance considerations.

• Lead a team of engineers (directly or matrixed): provide technical guidance, unblock delivery, and uphold high engineering standards.
• Own code quality practices: design reviews, code reviews, test strategy, and technical documentation.
• Mentor engineers; build a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and operational ownership.

• Ensure production readiness.
• Partner with security and compliance to implement secure‑by‑design practices (threat modeling, least privilege, auditability, secrets handling).
• Drive post‑launch improvements using operational insights: incident learnings, performance bottlenecks, and customer feedback.

• Partner with Corporate platform teams, product, enterprise architecture, infrastructure, IT, and business stakeholders to align roadmap, scope, and sequencing.
• Translate business goals into technical plans; proactively manage risks, dependencies, and delivery tradeoffs.
• Communicate progress through concise status updates, technical demos, and executive‑ready summaries.

• Strong proficiency in one or more modern programming languages (Java, C#, Python, Go, Type Script).
• Deep experience building distributed systems: APIs, services, asynchronous processing, caching, and data persistence.
• Experience configuring and customizing SAAS applications.
• Strong SDLC discipline: version control, branching strategies, testing pyramids, and release management.

• Proven success leading large‑scale migrations (apps and/or data), including phased rollouts and zero/low‑downtime strategies.
• Hands‑on experience with legacy modernization and platform consolidation (decommissioning, dependency mapping, migration waves).

• Strong technical writing: architecture docs, ADRs, runbooks, operational readiness checklists.
• Ability to influence without authority and drive alignment across…