Phase Iii Scrum 3

**About the Role**:
**Grade Level (for internal use)**: 12
**Segment**: S&P Global Commodity Insights
**The Role**: Senior Lead Software Developer
**Grade**: 12
**The Team**:
S&P Global Commodity Insights empowers organizations to create long-term, sustainable value by providing data and insights for a comprehensive view of the global energy and commodities markets.
**The Impact**:
**What’s in it for you**:
It’s a fast-paced agile environment that deals with huge volumes of data, so you’ll have an opportunity to sharpen your data skills and work on an emerging technology stack.

**Responsibilities**:

- AI Agent Development : Design, implement, and optimize autonomous AI agents capable of long-horizon reasoning, planning, and multi-step task execution.
- Tool & API Integration : Build agents that integrate with APIs, databases, and external tools for real-world operations (e.g., scheduling, research, automation).
- Framework Implementation : Leverage and extend agentic frameworks (e.g., LangChain, AutoGen, CrewAI, Semantic Kernel, LlamaIndex) for scalable AI solutions.
- Reasoning & Memory Systems : Develop memory architectures (short-term, long-term, episodic) for context-aware decision-making.
- Multi-Agent Collaboration : Create multi-agent systems where different specialized agents collaborate to solve complex problems.
- Testing & Optimization : Implement evaluation pipelines to ensure the safety, reliability, and efficiency of autonomous AI workflows.
- Scalability & Deployment : Deploy AI agents in production environments to ensure robustness, scalability, and security.
- Research & Innovation : Stay updated on the latest advancements in LLMs, agentic AI, and autonomous systems to propose innovative solutions.

**What We’re Looking For**:Basic Qualifications**:

- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- Strong programming experience in Python (Node.js/ReactJS is a plus).
- Hands-on experience with LLMs (GPT, Claude, Llama, Mistral, etc.) and fine-tuning methods.
- Experience with agentic AI frameworks (LangChain, AutoGen, Semantic Kernel, CrewAI, etc.).
- Knowledge of prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and tool-augmented AI.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Background in knowledge graphs, vector databases (e.g., Pinecone, Weaviate, FAISS), and embeddings.
- Proven hands-on experience with API design, microservices architectures, cloud computing, Kubernetes (k8s), containerization, ETL, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Exceptional documentation and diagramming skills (UML or equivalent).
- Excellent interpersonal, negotiation, and influencing skills, able to effectively communicate complex technical concepts across various teams and levels of the organization.
- Critical thinking, abstract problem-solving ability, strong analytical skills, and attention to detail.

**Preferred Qualifications**:

- Proven Previous experience building autonomous research or task-solving agents.
- Experience with multi-agent coordination and agentic workflows in enterprise use cases.
- Contributions to open-source agentic AI projects or frameworks.
- Knowledge of AI safety, alignment, and ethical AI design principles.

About S&P Global Commodity Insights
At S&P Global Commodity Insights, our complete view of global energy and commodities markets enables our customers to make decisions with conviction and create long-term, sustainable value.
We’re a trusted connector that brings together thought leaders, market participants, governments, and regulators to co-create solutions that lead to progress. Vital to navigating Energy Transition, S&P Global Commodity Insights’ coverage includes oil and gas, power, chemicals, metals, agriculture and shipping.
S&P Global Commodity Insights is a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI). S&P Global is the world’s foremost provider of credit ratings, benchmarks, analytics and workflow solutions in the global capital, commodity and automotive markets. With every one of our offerings, we help many of the world’s leading organizations navigate the economic landscape so they can plan for tomorrow, today.
What’s In It For You?
**Our Purpose**:
Progress is not a self-starter. It requires a catalyst to be set in motion. Information, imagination, people, technology-the right combination can unlock possibility and change the world.
Our world is in transition and getting more complex by the day. We push past expected observations and seek out new levels of understanding so that we can help companies, governments and individuals make an impact on tomorrow. At S&P Global we transform data into Essential Intelligence®, pinpointing risks and opening possibilities. We Accelerate Progress.
**Our People**:
We're more than 35,000 strong worldwide—so we're able to understand nuances while having a broad perspective. Our team is driven by curiosity and a shared beli