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Senior Principal Engineer & Technology Architect – Enterprise Solutions
About the Team
The Enterprise Solutions Technology division delivers workflow solutions across key areas:
- Lending
- Regulatory & Compliance
- Global Markets
- Software innovation
Our mission is to provide industry-leading integrated tools, data services and solutions that empower clients to:
- Make efficient investment decisions
- Operate with greater efficiency
- Ensure transparency across business and key stakeholders
Responsibilities & Impact
We seek a senior technology leader to partner directly with the Head of Technology for Enterprise Solutions in shaping the technology roadmap for a complex, regulated financial-services estate.
Key Accountabilities:
- Hands-on is critical – This is a hands-on principal engineering and architecture role, not a governance-only or advisory function.
- Ground technology strategy in reality – Work with the Head of Technology to refine strategy, stress-testing it against engineering, regulatory, and operational constraints.
- Turn strategy into execution – Collaborate with:
- Senior engineering leaders
- Platform teams
- Product partners
- Know when to push, simplify, stop – Apply operational judgment to:
- High-risk, high-impact initiatives
- Major incidents and recovery efforts
- Act as technology authority – Shape architecture, design and delivery decisions across teams and domains through influence (not formal management).
- Balance priorities:
- Long-term strategy
- Near-term delivery constraints
- Operational resilience
- Regulatory requirements
- Represent tech strategy – Communicate design decisions and trade-offs clearly and credibly to clients, stakeholders, and regulators to ensure buildability, operability, and defendability.
Core outcome: Strengthen the technology function by ensuring strategy is realistic, actionable, and resilient.
What We’re Looking For
Core Criteria:
- **25+ years ** of experience building high-availability systems in:
- Tier-1 banks
- Capital markets infrastructure
- Regulated environments with strict operational demands
- Production system ownership experience – Able to:
- Handle real operational load
- Read and write production-grade code
- Work alongside senior engineers
- Strategic technical leadership – Proven track record in shaping and owning multi-year technology strategies and roadmaps for:
- Complex, regulated, data-intensive platforms
- Banking and financial services (covers:
- Public/private markets
- Syndicated lending
- Securities processing
- Counterparty & client lifecycle management
- Regulatory reporting
- Architecture governance – Experience defining and enforcing:
- Reference architectures
- Design standards
- Architecture guardrails
- Ensuring scalability, consistency, and sustainability
- Deep domain expertise – Thorough knowledge of:
- Financial product workflows
- Data flows
- Controls and regulatory use cases
- System design mastery – Skilled in designing:
- Distributed, event-driven systems
- Data-intensive architectures (including scaling strategies and failure isolation)
- Cloud and multi-tenant architecture – Strong experience with:
- AWS | Azure | GCP
- Managed services trade-offs
- Multi-region and multi-tenant designs
- Data residency requirements
- Cost, performance, and resilience considerations
- Emerging architecture – Expertise in evaluating and implementing:
- Agent-based systems
- Service abstractions
- Semantic data models
- Knowledge graphs (and recognition of their applicable use cases)
- AI-enabled systems – Deep understanding of AI frameworks to ensure they are:
- Explainable
- Auditable
- Operationally safe
- Objectively assess when AI vs. deterministic/rules-based approaches are optimal
- AI/ML in production – Hands-on experience with:
- High-quality data metrics
- Anomaly detection workflows
- Fraud/AML systems
- Regulated automation deployment
- Security and compliance – Embeds: identity, data protection, failure containment, and regulatory risk into design principles
- Teaching and mentoring – Acts as a technical multiplier by:
- Hands-on problem-solving
- Design reviews
- Practical mentoring (rather than formal line management)
- Judgment under pressure – Calmly shapes decisions without authoritative oversight
- Communications – Translates complex technical concepts clearly to:
- Business teams
- Clients
- Regulatory stakeholders
- Evidence-driven approach – Success measured by:
- Buildability
- Reducing near-stage surprises/repeated incidents
- Scalability
- Operational recovery alignment
- Regulatory defensibility
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About S&P Global Market Intelligence
At S&P Global Market Intelligence, the world’s leading organizations depend on our teams to deliver accurate, deep analytical insights. Our 35,000+ global experts empower clients to:
- Operate with confidence
- Make decisions with conviction
Through innovation, we’re shaping the future by providing solutions like:
- Sustainability measurement
- Energy transition supply chain analysis
- Workflow insights to drive action
Our mission: Advancing Essential Intelligence. Visit www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence to learn more.
Our Values
We foster a workplace defined by:
- Integrity in everything we do
- Discovery through innovation
- Partnership through collaboration with customers and colleagues
Why Join Us?
Career Growth & Recognition
- Continuous learning – Access to learning resources and career development programs.
- Invest in your future – Competitive salary, retirement planning, student loan match contributions, and financial literacy programs.
Health & Wellness
- Comprehensive health coverage, including mental and physical wellness support.
- Generous flexible downtime policies.
Work-Life Balance
- Family-friendly benefits, including childcare/education support.
- Choose from globalized benefits—tailored to local needs and standards.
Beyond Perks
- Retail discounts, referral awards, employee engagement programs.
- Job-specific benefits validated in our global benefits portal.
S&P Global is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion and delighted to compete to fill this role.
Equal Opportunity Employer
S&P Global is an equal opportunity employer. We offer opportunities without discrimination based on protected characteristics, including:
🌍 Race/ethnicity 🌍 Age 🌍 Sexual orientation 🌍 Gender identity 🌍 Disability status 🔖 Unemployment status 🛡️ Military veteran status 👔 Marital/family status
We reserve the right to consider solely electronic job submissions.
Accommodations Request
If a disability impacts your application process, please email: EEO.Compliance@spglobal.com for accommodations.
(Offered to US-based applicants only)
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