
Financial Services · 40k people
Head of Multi-Asset Engineering
Posted 3 Nov
What’s this role about? The Head of Multi-Asset Engineering will lead the technology strategy, architecture, and execution for S&P Dow Jones Indices' Multi-Asset business. This role involves driving product-centric engineering practices, fostering AI-powered innovation, and managing cross-functional stakeholder relationships to deliver scalable technology solutions.
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About S&P Global S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI) enables businesses, governments, and individuals with trusted data, expertise and technology to make decisions with conviction. We are Advancing Essential Intelligence through world-leading benchmarks, data, and insights that customers need in order to plan confidently, act decisively, and thrive economically in a rapidly changing global landscape. From helping our customers assess new investments across the capital and commodities markets to guiding them through the energy expansion, acceleration of artificial intelligence, and evolution of public and private markets, we enable the world's leading organizations to unlock opportunities, solve challenges, and plan for tomorrow – today. Learn more at www.spglobal.com. Recruitment Fraud Alert: If you receive an email from a https://www.linkedin.com/redir/suspicious-page?url=spglobalind%2ecom domain or any other regionally based domains, it is a scam and should be reported to reportfraud@spglobal.com. S&P Global never requires any candidate to pay money for job applications, interviews, offer letters, “pre-employment training” or for equipment/delivery of equipment. Stay informed and protect yourself from recruitment fraud by reviewing our guidelines, fraudulent domains, and how to report suspicious activity here: https://www.spglobal.com/content/dam/spglobal/corporate/en/documents/careers/Corp_0525-Recruitment-Fraud-Alert.pdf
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Responsibilities
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- Multi-Asset Technology Leadership: Lead the end-to-end technology strategy and execution roadmap for the Multi-Asset Index value stream — partnering with business leadership to translate growth opportunities into scalable technology capabilities, ensuring technology investments align with business priorities, customer demand, and strategic objectives, and serving as the senior technology partner for all Multi-Asset product development initiatives.
- Product & Platform Delivery: Accelerate product delivery and materially improve time-to-market for new index launches and enhancements — driving delivery of AI-enabled product capabilities, analytics, and data package solutions while leading modern software engineering practices, product-oriented delivery models, and establishing measurable outcomes for quality, resiliency, throughput, and business value delivery.
- Reuse & Common Services Strategy: Define and execute a strategy for shared business services, APIs, frameworks, and engineering patterns — identifying common capabilities across Index Build value streams to develop reusable solutions, reducing duplication and technical fragmentation across Multi-Asset, Equities, and Fixed Income technology platforms, and acting as a thought leader to drive adoption of common solutions across technology organisations.
- AI & Technology Innovation: Leverage AI, automation, and agentic development approaches to measurably improve engineering productivity — evaluating emerging technologies to identify new opportunities to expand platform capabilities, and partnering with Architecture, Data, and Platform teams to integrate AI-enabled capabilities into the full product lifecycle
- Leadership & Stakeholder Management: Lead, mentor, and develop engineering teams and technical leaders — influencing cross-functional stakeholders without direct authority, building strong partnerships across Product, Operations, Commercial, Data Platform, Architecture, Cyber, QE, and SRE teams, and communicating strategy, priorities, risks, and outcomes to senior leadership with clarity and conviction.
- Throughout our history, the world's leading organizations have relied on us for the Essential Intelligence they need to make confident decisions about the road ahead. We start with a foundation of integrity in all we do, bring a spirit of discovery to our work, and collaborate in close partnership with each other and our customers to achieve shared goals.
Qualification
Required
- 15+ years of software engineering experience, including multiple years in an engineering leadership role with direct accountability for platform or product engineering organizations, distributed global teams, with ownership of delivery roadmaps and architecture governance
- Proven record of delivering business-critical technology solutions in capital markets, fintech, asset management, exchanges, market infrastructure, or financial data businesses
- Demonstrated experience building reusable platforms, shared services, APIs, and enterprise-scale architectures, applying cloud-native engineering principles, modern SDLC/PDLC practices, and software delivery automation
- Experience delivering enterprise-scale, cloud-native platforms on AWS, Azure, or GCP — including microservices design, event-driven architecture, API gateway frameworks, and CI/CD pipeline automation at production scale
- Hands-on experience integrating AI/ML capabilities into production software delivery pipelines — including LLM-based tooling, automated code generation, or intelligent data processing — resulting in measurable improvements to engineering throughput or product capability
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related engineering discipline
Preferred
- Domain expertise in Multi-Asset, Equity, Fixed Income, Indices, Quantitative Finance, or Portfolio Construction strategies
- Experience with index lifecycle management platforms, back-testing systems, portfolio analytics tools, or custom index solutions (e.g., ILMP, Index Studio, or equivalent enterprise index infrastructure)
- Track record of successfully modernizing legacy platforms and executing platform consolidation across distributed, multi-team engineering organizations
- Proficiency with modern SDLC/PDLC toolchains, software delivery automation, and quality engineering (QE) practices
- Advanced degree (Master's or PhD) in Computer Science, Financial Engineering, Mathematics, or a quantitative discipline
Benefits
- We take care of you, so you can take care of business. We care about our people. That’s why we provide everything you—and your career—need to thrive at S&P Global.
- 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.
- For more information on benefits by country visit: https://spgbenefits.com/benefit-summaries
- At S&P Global, we are committed to fostering a connected and engaged workplace where all individuals have access to opportunities based on their skills, experience, and contributions. Our hiring practices emphasize fairness, transparency, and merit, ensuring that we attract and retain top talent. By valuing different perspectives and promoting a culture of respect and collaboration, we drive innovation and power global markets.
- If you need an accommodation during the application process due to a disability, please send an email to: EEO.Compliance@spglobal.com and your request will be forwarded to the appropriate person.
- US Candidates Only: The EEO is the Law Poster http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/eeopost.pdf describes discrimination protections under federal law. Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision - https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/ofccp/pdf/pay-transp_%20English_formattedESQA508c.pdf
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