Lead Software Engineer

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

Role Summary

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.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership & Delivery

• 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).

Architecture, Modernization, and Consolidation

• 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.

Engineering Management (Technical Lead Scope)

• 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.

Reliability, Security, and Operations

• 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.

Stakeholder & Program Collaboration

• 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.

Required Skills

Core Engineering

• Strong proficiency in one or more modern programming languages (e.g.,
  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.

Platform, Migration, and Consolidation Expertise

• 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).

Leadership & Communication

• Strong technical writing: architecture docs, ADRs, runbooks, operational readiness checklists.
• Ability to influence without authority and drive alignment across multiple teams.
• Pragmatic decision-making under constraints (timeline, risk, cost, regulatory…