Head of Architecture - Assets, Data and Tooling

About the Role:

Grade Level (for internal use): 14

The Team:
The S&P Enterprise Architecture office is a newly established capability that provides technology, system and data alignment, control, and insight across all divisions and corporate functions of S&P Global.

The office is oriented around five strategic principles:

• A Single View of Enterprise Architecture - Develop and maintain a consolidated view of systems, data, and technology assets (current and future state) to support investment and integration decisions.
• Evolve Common Governance & Standards - Evolve and embed enterprise-level governance and standards building on existing TDOC and ARB processes.
• Enable Enterprise-Scale Data, AI, & Agentic Capabilities - Coordinate architecture for AI and agentic solutions to ensure responsible adoption and shared value across business units.
• Develop Architecture Capability and Community - Build an empowered network of architects across divisions and functions with shared ways of working, tools, architecture principles and frameworks.
• Deliver Measurable Business Alignment & Value – Enable Technology Value realization and demonstrate clear outcomes such as cost savings through reduced duplication, enhanced Productivity through improved time-to-market, and Efficiency through optimized investment.

The office is newly formed as part of the company’s strategy to more tightly align technology, business functions and data assets to accelerate AI readiness of the entire technology estate. The office has oversight of all aspects of technology: from IT and business systems through to product platforms.

As part of this new office initiative, multiple roles are being recruited across levels. Each role will be assigned to any of the 3 priority capabilities, with a possibility of role rotation enabling a well‑rounded team.

Strategy and Program: To set overall direction and interact with key initiatives across S&P, driving synergy and efficiency optimization, including strategy and transformation roadmap for future state EA artifacts.

Governance and Community: To run and embed governance and activate the architecture community through ARBs, TDAs, and other related processes. Establishing cohesive definitions and effective ways of working, including aligning the Divisions towards the standards of the future state EA artifacts.

Assets and Tooling: To own architecture tool(s) and drive transparent documentation of multiple architectural assets and best practices, including the implementation and ownership of future state EA artifacts.

As an Enterprise Architect, you will report to the S&P Global Head of Enterprise Architecture and will be part of the newly formed S&P EA office. You will support ~150 architects across the Divisions, driving alignment between technical solutions and business needs, fostering a culture of innovation, and overseeing the seamless integration of governance processes to support scalable and unified technology, data and product outcomes throughout S&P Global.

• Govern and manage Architecture assets, serving as the product owner for the Enterprise Architecture tooling platform, managing EA tooling platform roadmap, configuration, and lifecycle management.
• Oversee the evaluation of software and hardware product standards to ensure alignment with strategy, architectural standards, integration requirements, risk management, and long‑term sustainability across the technology landscape.
• Partner with Business and Technical teams to ensure architecture assets and tooling investments deliver measurable business value and support capability development.
• Assess and guide on architecture for product/platform enablement (e.g., digital subscription platforms, SaaS offerings, global delivery of information assets) and ensure architecture supports scalability, performance, reliability, global compliance.
• Measure and report on architectural effectiveness, using the Enterprise Architecture tooling platform to track key metrics such as technical debt reduction, component reuse percentage and percentage of automation adoption.
• Support to build the architecture community and promote…