S&P Global

Executive Director, Data Architecture

S&P Global

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: New YorkUnited States

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Salary

💰 $177,036 - $266,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Deep hands-on experience in one or more financial-services domains, such as public or private markets, syndicated lending, securities processing, counterparty or client lifecycle management, or regulatory reporting.
  • Strong understanding of end-to-end workflows relevant to those domains (e.g. trade lifecycle, processing, reporting, reconciliation), and how data moves through systems.
  • Experienced in building medium to long term technology roadmaps and strategy.
  • Experience integrating and operating AI /ML, or agent-enabled components as part of broader systems, with attention to reliability, explainability, operational controls, and failure modes.
  • Experience designing systems where data quality, lineage, controls, and auditability are required and visible, not implicit.
  • Able to reason about domain-driven failure modes (late data, breaks, mismatches, reconciliation issues, regulatory deadlines) and design systems that surface and handle them cleanly.
  • Acts as a domain-aware technical partner to segment leads and delivery teams.
  • Strong experience designing and building distributed, data-intensive, and event-driven systems in financial services or similarly regulated environments.
  • Hands-on experience producing detailed designs and reference implementations and working directly with teams to turn designs into running systems.
  • Strong judgment around system behaviour in production, including performance, failure modes, resilience, recovery, and risk isolation.
  • Practical experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), including managed services, multi-tenant designs, and cost/performance trade-offs.
  • Hands on experience in reviewing, writing, and improving production code, and working closely with senior engineers on complex problems.

Requirements

  • 17 + years building and operating production systems, with depth increasing by level.
  • Strong hands-on engineering background; comfortable being close to the code and delivery work.
  • Pragmatic and delivery-focused; prioritises what works in practice over theoretical perfection.
  • Communicates clearly with engineers, product partners, and segment leadership.
  • Leads through credibility, presence, and technical contribution, not hierarchy.
  • Strong inter-personal skills required with ability to multitask and prioritize work. Strong People Leader. People Management skill is a must.
Benefits
  • 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.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
AIMLdata qualitydata lineagesystem designdistributed systemsevent-driven systemsproduction codecloud platformsmulti-tenant designs
Soft Skills
communicationleadershipinterpersonal skillsmultitaskingprioritizationpragmatic approachdelivery-focusedcredibilitypresencetechnical contribution