Lead, Software Development​/Engineering

Grade Level (for internal use): 12

Company Name: S&P OpCo, LLC

Job Title:

Lead, Software Development/Engineering

Location:

55 Water Street, New York, NY 10041 (Telecommuting permitted from anywhere in the U.S.)

S&P OpCo, LLC seeks a Lead, Software Development/Engineering who will participate in all phases of the software development lifecycle, including coding, testing, debugging, and documentation. Design, develop, and enhance end-of-day index calculation platforms for S&P Dow Jones Indices (SPDJI). Review application code to ensure adherence to coding standards, best practices, and maintainability requirements. Contribute to new platform initiatives while providing ongoing support for existing index calculation applications.

Perform application and system performance tuning and troubleshoot performance or scalability issues. Collaborate with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams to triage and resolve issues related to index calculation platforms. Apply object-oriented programming principles and design patterns in application development. Integrate internal applications with third party and vendor software platforms as required. Set up and maintain development environments and sandboxes for application development and testing.

Check in code changes to version control repositories and maintain proper configuration management practices. Perform unit testing, identify defects, and implement solutions for code quality and stability. Interface with relational databases to extract data, generate outputs, and build reports. Work effectively with business users, customers, and cross-functional IT teams to gather requirements and support platform functionality.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related IT field plus five (5) years of experience in software engineering or a related occupation.
• Five (5) years of experience must include:
  Java, J2EE, Java Messaging Service (JMS), and Enterprise Java Beans (EJB);
  Advanced SQL and PL/SQL programming;
  Big Data / Microservices;
  Spark using Java and Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS);
  Advanced Python;
  Infrastructure / CI/CD / Dev Ops / Ansible / Fortify / Jenkins; AWS Cloud Services EC2, EMR, Lambda, S3, and Glue; QA Automation (Cucumber, Selenium, and Karate);
  Oracle Database;
  Networking knowledge and Unix scripting.
• The anticipated base salary range for this position is $189,592 to $206,350. Final base salary for this role will be based on the individual’s geographic location, as well as experience level, skill set, training, licenses & certifications. In addition to base compensation, this role is eligible for an annual incentive plan.
• S&P OpCo, LLC is part of S&P Global and this role is eligible to receive additional S&P Global benefits. For more information on the benefits we provide to our employees, please see:

At S&P Dow Jones Indices, we provide iconic and innovative index solutions backed by unparalleled expertise across the asset-class spectrum. By bringing transparency to the global capital markets, we empower investors everywhere to make decisions with conviction. 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 Dow Jones…