The Role: Senior Lead Developer - Analytics Engineering The Location: Toronto, CAN, Other GL: 12 (for internal use only) The Team: The team is responsible for the delivery, deployment, and further ownership of Analytics products. These products are specific, in that they are leveraging emerging tools and technologies, such as data-science-oriented languages, alternative data, and cognitive technologies. This team partners with a team of individuals who provide thought leadership and designs those products. We collaborate closely with them and build and deploy solutions following the software development lifecycle. Thereafter, the ownership and the responsibility of maintaining and enhancing the solution lies within our team. While our workflow involves a rudimentary software development effort, an overreach into the space of data science, data mining and cognitive technologies is a prerequisite for successful engagement in our team’s workflow. The team setting gives ample opportunities to take on complex software engineering and analytical problems. At the same time, you will be able to seek support from colleagues with a deep proficiency in the technologies leveraged. Partnering closely with other internal stakeholders, will also allow you to tap into their experience and resources. The Impact: In this role you will use cutting edge techniques in domain languages to handle both traditional and alternative data sets. The supported business applications include traditional credit modelling, as well as the state-of-the-art methods for alternative data mining and transformation. We are innovating the way the essential intelligence is being collected and processed to support our clients’ decision making and risk monitoring needs. By leveraging the data science-oriented technologies, we are delivering solutions faster and at scale, while maintaining the top-notch quality standards. You will be making meaningful contribution in building solutions delivered through the Webservices/API/Data Processing. The work you do, will provide the data and analytics required for crucial, daily decisions in the financial markets, and in corporate finance operations. What’s in it for you: We are a Fortune 500 company and recognized industry-leading provider of data and analytics: as such, we provide an unusually rich environment to make an impact and grow personally and professionally. You will have an opportunity to connect with leaders across S&P Global, our clients and partners; support new product opportunities; and be part of a lean, active, and professional team. You will be engaged in the development of the next generation of new products, while enhancing existing ones aiming at solving high-impact business problems. This is a high visibility role, and critical to the execution of our Analytics transformation strategy. Responsibilities: Work as a hands-on developer to execute and deploy projects aimed at solving high-impact business problems. Play a central role in all stages of the building, deployment, and further improvement of new products to our clients, including: Using data science and software engineering skills to solve business problems for our end-users Partnering with business leaders, domain experts, and end-users to gain business understanding, data understanding, and collect requirements Data analysis and preparation Partnering with financial engineers and model developers to understand specifications for building and deploying models/algorithms into production systems Architect a solution that is scalable and resource efficient Produce system documents Improve existing code bases by using efficient, re-usable and modular coding practices (aka functional programming) What We’re Looking For: 8+ years of Software Development experience: Strong proficiency in Python, Java Hands on experience with the development of complex software systems, a passion for a software development cycle, talking to other SW engineers, scaling up deployment in production Nice to have: Spark, Databricks, no-SQL data stores such as Cassandra 3+ years of exposure to quantitative, Data Science or other advanced data and predictive analytics development: Practical experience with data mining, machine learning techniques, natural language processing, and data visualization - with an explicit aspiration to significantly enhance own skillset in those fields Nice to know: Natural Language Processing techniques, TensorFlow or PyTorch, SpaCy for entity recognition, ImageMagick, Tesseract, Table Detection techniques Reasonable familiarity with R to suffice the need of comprehending and transforming the code Proven track record of strong analytical skills, learning agility, and independent thinking; Ability to make observations, form an option, and articulate to the team Ability to proactively nurture a collaborative work environment Ability to effectively lead and supervise junior team members Typically requires a Bachelor/Master’s degree or equivalent experience, in Computer Science, Data Science, Computer Engineering Preferred Skills/Experience: An experienced software developer, with Knowledge on AWS, Microservices, SQL A deep knowledge of Python and Java A passion for the software development lifecycle Practical grasp of the data science methods and languages An explicit ambition to expand on the data science technology exposure A prior experience from the Economics/Financial industry is a nice to have S&P Global delivers essential intelligence that powers decision making. We provide the world’s leading organizations with the right data, connected technologies and expertise they need to move ahead. As part of our team, you’ll help solve complex challenges that equip businesses, governments and individuals with the knowledge to adapt to a changing economic landscape. ----------------------------------------------------------- Equal Opportunity Employer S&P Global is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race/ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, marital status, military veteran status, unemployment status, or any other status protected by law. Only electronic job submissions will be considered for employment. If you need an accommodation during the application process due to a disability, please send an email to: [email protected] and your request will be forwarded to the appropriate person.  US Candidates Only: The EEO is the Law Poster http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/eeopost.pdf describes discrimination protections under federal law. ----------------------------------------------------------- IFTECH103.2 - Middle Management Tier II (EEO Job Group) Job ID: 276534 Posted On: 2022-12-07 Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada