
Executive Director, Data Architecture
S&P Global
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: New York City • New York • United States
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Salary
💰 $177,036 - $266,000 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
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
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
AIMLsystem designdata qualitydata lineageauditabilitydistributed systemsevent-driven systemsproduction code reviewcloud platforms
Soft Skills
communicationleadershipinterpersonal skillsmultitaskingprioritizationpragmatic approachdelivery-focusedcredibilitytechnical contributionpeople management