Vp of Software Engineering

The **VP of Software Engineering **will play a pivotal role in our strategic transformation from product to platform-centric software engineering practices while modernizing our technology stack and transitioning to agile development. These effortsare occurring within the broader context of major strategic initiatives to extend our market leadership and build next-generation cloud-based software platforms. In short, the VP of Software Engineering will lead fundamental software product, engineering,organizational and operational changes.
Partnering, collaborating and aligning with Product Management and customer-facing peers will be key in identifying what needs development so we are always delivering value to our customers. As a strategic partner with the business and CTO this position willlead the creation of a multi-year roadmap of how technology enables the business and drives value and efficiency at the same time.

**Responsibilities**:

- Partner with product management and co-lead an agile transformation
- Partner with customer-facing peers to create and deliver on multi-year roadmaps
- Manage and build teams off-shore
- Identify and consolidate duplicate product functionality, infrastructure environments and teams
- Automate manual tasks
- Ensure development teams estimate development effort by breaking down components into work items
- Ensure managers assign resources to work items and ensure deadlines are met
- Provide software development progress reports to executive management
- Occasionally get into the user stories and code to validate engineering direction and design
- Ensure production operations of 99.99% uptime
- Partner with infrastructure to efficiently manage the AWS environments
- Implement and enforce AWS cost controls
- Lead technology audit compliance based on SPGI guidelines
- Provide mentoring and guidance to team members
- Continually work on process improvement
- Stay current with modern software development technology
- Lead from the front and be a cultural change agent. Build a proactive, Get Stuff Done culture

**Experience**:

- Experience partnering with Product Management in an agile SDLC
- Prior experience building platforms
- Prior development and management of cloud base software with 1,000's of users is a must
- Must come from a software development background. Prior experience as a software engineer
- Experience in a regulated industry or extensive SSAE16/SOC2 experience
- Intimate knowledge of Internet development,.NET or Java
- Experience with cloud software development, AWS is a plus
- Management of high-performing agile teams
- Management of on-shore and off-shore teams
- Management of a development team of 75+ FTEs (Dev, QA, BA, System Engineers)
- Previous architecture experience with large scale cloud based software
Technologies
- Relational databases and Marklogic is a plus
- GPU graphic processing
- Microsoft desktop development
- HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Typescript, JSON, XML
- REST APIs

**Qualifications**:

- Bachelor's degree, preferably in Computer Science
- Preferably at least 12+ years of software development experience
- Experience managing an agile SDLC, preferable SCRUM
- Advanced knowledge of object-oriented programming concepts and relational data modeling
- Strong Object-Oriented Design, Relational Database Design, and Cloud
- Ability to collaborate and brainstorm in a team environment
- Culture Carrier: Get Stuff Done

**Grade/Level (relevant for internal applicants only)**:15
S&P Global states that the anticipated base salary range for this position is $185,000 to $423,600. Final base salary for this role will be based on the individual's geographical location as well as experience and qualifications for the role.
In addition to base compensation, this role is eligible for an annual incentive plan.
This role is eligible to receive additional S&P Global benefits. For more information on the benefits we provide to our employees, please click here.
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