Accelerated Software Development Program Jobs in Hicksville, NY

Grade Level (for internal use):

The Role: Lead II, Software Development

The Location: NYC, hybrid (2 days per week onsite)

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Associate Director of Software Engineering to deliver solutions for our Municipal Bond Issuance platform while actively contributing to the codebase, driving architectural decisions, and providing technical leadership across strategic initiatives, regulatory programs, and business-as-usual enhancements.

This is a highly hands-on technical leadership role. You will remain actively engaged in software development, architecture, solution design, code reviews, troubleshooting, and proof-of-concept development while leading project delivery and mentoring engineers.

The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in modern software engineering, API-first and microservices architectures, AWS-based application development, and AI-assisted engineering practices. Beyond delivering projects, you will introduce technologies, best practices, and AI-driven engineering practices that accelerate modernization, improve engineering effectiveness, and strengthen the team's technical capabilities.

What's in it for you

We leverage modern technologies and engineering practices including AWS, .NET, C#, Angular, SQL Server, AI-enabled development platforms, CI/CD automation, observability tools, and cloud-native design patterns. You will have the opportunity to influence technical direction and drive modernization initiatives while working on systems that support critical business workflows across the municipal bond issuance lifecycle.

You will work in a collaborative environment focused on innovation, operational resilience, continuous improvement, and customer success.

What You'll Work On

• Lead delivery of strategic initiatives, platform enhancements, and modernization efforts while actively contributing to the codebase.
• Own solution architecture, technical design, and hands-on technical leadership throughout software delivery lifecycle.
• Identify and execute opportunities to modernize existing AWS-hosted platforms through service decomposition, API-first design, microservices, event-driven architectures, and cloud-native engineering practices.
• Drive adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices across the software development lifecycle, including requirements analysis, solution design, development, testing, documentation, code review, and operational support.
• Build proof-of-concepts and reference implementations to accelerate adoption of new technologies and engineering practices.
• Evaluate and introduce emerging technologies, frameworks, and engineering practices that improve delivery effectiveness, software quality, and developer productivity.
• Perform code reviews and establish engineering standards, design patterns, and development best practices.
• Troubleshoot complex technical and production issues, providing hands-on guidance and resolution.
• Support production systems and drive operational excellence through incident management, root cause analysis, monitoring, and performance optimization.
• Contribute to disaster recovery, security, compliance, and operational resiliency initiatives.
• Partner with product team to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Own project planning, estimation, execution, risk management, dependency tracking and stakeholder alignment.
• Mentor engineers and foster technical excellence across the team.

What We Look For

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 12+ years of software engineering experience building enterprise-scale applications.
• Proven ability to influence technical direction and drive initiatives through technical expertise and demonstrated results.
• Strong hands-on experience with .NET, C#, ASP.NET, SQL Server, RESTful APIs, Angular and distributed systems
• Strong architecture and system design experience including API-first, microservices and cloud native architectures.
• Proven experience modernizing monolithic applications and evolving them towards cloud-native and service-oriented architectures.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, distributed systems, enterprise integration patterns, scalability and resiliency.
• Experience with DevOps practices including CI/CD, GitHub and/or GitLab, Terraform, containerization, and infrastructure automation.
• Experience with security remediation, compliance initiatives, and highly regulated environments.
• Proven ability to deliver complex technology initiatives from conception through production deployment.
• Strong project planning, execution, stakeholder management, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Ability and willingness to remain technically engaged while leading project delivery and mentoring engineers.
• Strong sense of ownership, accountability, urgency, and delivery focus.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving abilities.
• Experience in financial services, capital markets, fixed income, municipal domain.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building or integrating AI-powered solutions, using LLMs, RAG, AI agents, intelligent automation or related technologies.
• Hands-on experience leveraging AI-assisted software development tools and workflows to improve developer productivity, code quality, testing, documentation, and delivery efficiency.
• Hands-on experience with modern AI engineering platforms and tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude, Gemini or similar technologies.
• Experience with observability, logging, performance engineering, and operational monitoring platforms such as Splunk.
• Knowledge of Angular, JavaScript, RESTful APIs, microservices, Docker, Kubernetes, and event-driven architectures.
• Familiarity with MQ, messaging technologies, and enterprise integration frameworks.

Right to work requirements:

This role is open only for candidates with indefinite right to work within the USA.

Compensation/Benefits Information (US Applicants Only):
S&P Global states that the anticipated base salary range for this position is $125,000 - $155000. Final base salary for this role will be based on the individual's geographical location as well as experience and qualifications for the role.
In addition to base compensation, this role is eligible for an annual incentive plan. This role is not eligible for additional compensation such as an annual incentive bonus or sales commission plan.

This role is eligible to receive additional S&P Global benefits. For more information on the benefits we provide to our employees, please click here.

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For more information, visit www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence.

What's In It For You?

Our Mission:

Advancing Essential Intelligence.

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 belief that Essential Intelligence can help build a more prosperous future for us all.From finding new ways to measure sustainability to analyzing energy transition across the supply chain to building workflow solutions that make it easy to tap into insight and apply it. We are changing the way people see things and empowering them to make an impact on the world we live in. We're committed to a more equitable future and to helping our customers find new, sustainable ways of doing business. Join us and help create the critical insights that truly make a difference.

Our Values:

Integrity, Discovery, Partnership

Throughout our history, the world's leading organizations have relied on us for the Essential Intelligence they need to make confident decisions about the road ahead. We start with a foundation of integrity in all we do, bring a spirit of discovery to our work, and collaborate in close partnership with each other and our customers to achieve shared goals.
Benefits:

We take care of you, so you cantake care of business. We care about our people. That's why we provide everything you-and your career-need to thrive at S&P Global.
Our benefits include:

• 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.

For more information on benefits by country visit: https://spgbenefits.com/benefit-summaries

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