Director of Application Development

About the Role:

Grade Level (for internal use): 12

The Team:

The Fixed Income value stream focuses on providing reliable, scalable and auditable calculation engines and services that are essential for managing our fixed income series of indices. As technology is being reshaped to align with emerging standards, our team operates with a product-first mindset, follows product development lifecycle patterns, and truly adheres to Agile framework principles.

Responsibilities and Impact:

• Design and develop high-performance calculation engines and services for fixed income indices processing large-scale financial data
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement scalable solutions that support critical business operations and client needs
• Drive technical excellence by participating in code reviews, architecture discussions, and contributing to best practices for system reliability
• Work within Agile development cycles to deliver features that enhance our fixed income technology platform and align with emerging industry standards
• Mentor junior developers and contribute to the technical growth of the team through knowledge sharing and pair programming
• Lead initiatives to modernize existing systems and implement new technologies that improve performance and maintainability
• Architect and oversee high-performance calculation engines and services for index production and large-scale analytics, balancing latency, throughput, cost, and correctness.
• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of engineers and quant‑minded developers; set clear expectations on technical quality and quantitative rigor.
• Provide hands‑on leadership for the design and implementation of core fixed income analytics, ensure analytics are numerically stable, consistent with market conventions, and robust across edge cases.
• Must be able to implement end‑to‑end data lineage, reconciliation, anomaly detection, reproducibility, auditability, and versioning across analytics models, inputs, and outputs.

What We're Looking For:

Basic

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field, or equivalent professional experience
• 10+ years of software development experience with programming languages such as Java, C#, Python, or Scala
• Strong experience with distributed systems and microservices architecture patterns
• Proficiency with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform
• Must have extensive experience with both SQL and No
  
  SQL database technologies, including hands‑on expertise in platforms such as Postgre
  
  SQL, Mongo
  
  DB, and Cassandra
• Demonstrated expertise in fixed income system design and instrument analytics.
• Solid understanding of Agile development methodologies and product development lifecycle

Additional

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in financial services domain, particularly with fixed income securities, indices, or calculation engines
• Knowledge of containerization technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, or Open Shift
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and Dev Ops practices using tools like Jenkins, Git Lab CI, or Azure Dev Ops
• Familiarity with performance optimization and high-frequency data processing systems

About S&P Global Dow Jones Indices

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.

What’s In It For You?

Our Mission:

Advancing Essential Intelligence.

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