Associate Director, Data Engineering

Associate Director, Data Engineering (J2EE/Angular/React Full Stack Individual Contributor)

About the Role:

Grade Level (for internal use): 12

The Team

You will be an expert contributor and part of the Rating Organizations Data Services Product Engineering Team. This team, who has a broad and expert knowledge on Ratings organizations critical data domains, technology stacks and architectural patterns, fosters knowledge sharing and collaboration that results in a unified strategy. All Data Services team members provide leadership, innovation, timely delivery, and the ability to articulate business value. Be a part of a unique opportunity to build and evolve S&P Ratings next gen analytics platform.

Responsibilities:

• Architect, design, and implement innovative software solutions to enhance S&P Ratings cloud-based analytics platform.
• Mentor a team of engineers (as required), fostering a culture of trust, continuous growth, and collaborative problem-solving.
• Collaborate with business partners to understand requirements, ensuring technical solutions align with business goals.
• Manage and improve existing software solutions, ensuring high performance and scalability.
• Participate actively in all Agile scrum ceremonies, contributing to the continuous improvement of team processes.
• Produce comprehensive technical design documents and conduct technical walkthroughs.
  Experience & Qualifications:
• Bachelors degree in computer science, Information Systems, Engineering, equivalent or more is required
• Proficient with software development lifecycle (SDLC) methodologies like Agile, Test-driven development
• Total 12+ years of experience with 8+ years designing enterprise products, modern data stacks and analytics platforms
• 6+ years of hands-on experience contributing to application architecture & designs, proven software/enterprise integration design patterns and full-stack knowledge including modern distributed front end and back-end technology stacks
• 5+ years full stack development experience in modern web development technologies, Java/J2EE, UI frameworks like Angular, React, SQL, Oracle, NoSQL Databases like MongoDB
• Exp. with Delta Lake systems like Databricks using AWS cloud technologies and PySpark is a plus
• Experience designing transactional/data warehouse/data lake and data integrations with Big data eco system leveraging AWS cloud technologies
• Thorough understanding of distributed computing
• Passionate, smart, and articulate developer
• Quality first mindset with a strong background and experience with developing products for a global audience at scale
• Excellent analytical thinking, interpersonal, oral and written communication skills with strong ability to influence both IT and business partners
• Superior knowledge of system architecture, object-oriented design, and design patterns.
• Good work ethic, self-starter, and results-oriented
• Excellent communication skills are essential, with strong verbal and writing proficiencies
  Additional Preferred Qualifications:
• Experience working AWS
• Experience with SAFe Agile Framework
• Bachelors/PG degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or equivalent.
• Hands-on experience contributing to application architecture & designs, proven software/enterprise integration design principles
• Ability to prioritize and manage work to critical project timelines in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent Analytical and communication skills are essential, with strong verbal and writing proficiencies
• Ability to train and mentor