Engineering Lead – Product Development – Commercial Portfolio

Key Responsibilities

Product Development

• Implement the overall technical strategy for product development, ensuring alignment with business objectives and market demands
• Architect high-performance, scalable, and reliable services that meet the needs of cross-functional teams, with a focus on modularity, maintainability, and reusability of solutions
• Collaborate with product management, design, and other stakeholders to define product roadmaps and ensure timely, high-quality delivery of features
• Oversee the development of new product features and enhancements, ensuring that they are scalable, reliable, and meet customer needs

Leadership & Team Development

• Lead and inspire a team of software engineers, architects, and engineering managers, ensuring high performance and professional growth
• Cultivate a high-performance culture, emphasizing accountability, innovation, collaboration, and quality
• Establish and maintain development processes, methodologies, and best practices that ensure high-quality product delivery and operational efficiency
• Mentor and guide engineering leadership, providing direction on both technical and operational aspects of product development.

Technical Oversight & Innovation

• Oversee the architecture and design of complex software systems, ensuring robust and scalable solutions
• Balance technical priorities with business goals to deliver innovative products while ensuring operational efficiency
• Lead the adoption of modern technologies, tools, and frameworks that improve software performance, scalability, and maintainability
• Stay current with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices to drive innovation within the engineering team

Cross Functional Collaboration

• Serve as the primary technical liaison between engineering, senior leadership, other departments, other divisions, and corporate stakeholders to ensure clear communication and alignment on priorities
• Partner with product management, UX/UI design, marketing, and other cross-functional teams to align on product vision, goals, and deliverables
• Manage and resolve dependencies across teams, ensuring smooth and efficient project execution

Operational Excellence & Risk Management

• Identify and mitigate technical risks and obstacles, ensuring that the product development pipeline runs smoothly and efficiently.
• Ensure the security, performance, and scalability of products through proactive monitoring and improvements.
• Ensure adherence to high coding standards, software quality, and efficient development processes, including continuous integration and deployment practices
• Implement key performance indicators (KPIs) to track the progress of product development initiatives, ensuring milestones are met.

Qualification & Requirements

Qualifications:

Experience:

• 15+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 5+ years in a senior leadership role and managing software teams.
• Proven track record of leading and scaling engineering teams in a product-focused environment
• Extensive experience in software development lifecycle management, from product conception through deployment and iteration
• Experience in managing large-scale, complex product development efforts and ensuring cross-functional team alignment

Technical Skills:

• Strong technical background with hands-on experience in modern software development technologies (e.g., Java, Python, microservices, cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, etc.)
• Expertise in software architecture, data architecture, and system design, with an ability to lead and influence technical decision-making.
• Drive innovation toward building high-scalable, real-time data pipelines and data distribution solutions
• Experience with enterprise integration patterns, including event-driven architectures and messaging systems
  

Leadership & Collaboration:

• Comfortable acting as the primary interface with senior leaders, stakeholders, and executives, driving consensus across competing objectives.
• Exceptional leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to motivate and engage teams across multiple disciplines.
• Manage multiple stakeholders, complex projects, and large cross-product collaborations.
• Influence peer leaders and senior stakeholders across the business, product, and technology teams.
• Ability to balance short-term tactical needs with long-term strategic goals.
  

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).

Benefits

• 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.