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ISS STOXX is growing! We are seeking an experienced and qualified Senior Software Engineer – Python & Cloud to join our dynamic team in Gurgaon.
Overview:
The ICOS (Index Configuration and Operation System) Development team within our Index business is responsible for the application development and maintenance of key components of the index calculation platform.
The ideal candidate will bring deep expertise in Python development, hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and a strong understanding of serverless architecture patterns. While familiarity with Oracle PL/SQL is beneficial, the primary focus of this role is designing and building scalable, cloud-native solutions using Python within a modern data and application ecosystem.
You will strengthen the ICOS Development team by designing and implementing serverless, event-driven, and microservices-based architectures on GCP. This includes developing and maintaining cloud-native applications, data processing pipelines, and APIs using services such as Cloud Functions, Cloud Run, BigQuery, Pub/Sub, and Cloud Storage. You will play a key role in evolving system and data architecture within a complex business process and data warehouse environment, ensuring solutions are scalable, resilient, and cost-efficient.
Responsibilities:
- Designing and developing Python-based services and FastAPI-driven APIs in a GCP environment
- Building and maintaining serverless applications and event-driven integrations
- Implementing and optimizing data architectures leveraging BigQuery and other managed GCP services
- Contributing to CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code practices
- Implementation of complex business rules and index concepts
- Mentor and coach team members in Python best practices, cloud-native design on GCP, and serverless architecture patterns, fostering high code quality and scalable solution design
- Maintenance and design of a complex & challenging data warehouse environment
- Technical design documentation
- Design and execution of test strategies
- Provide 1st line/2nd line application support primarily for the ICOS systems
Qualifications:
- Python mastery: Deep understanding of design patterns, OOP, and Pythonic code
- FastAPI expertise: 4+ years building high-performance APIs
- Data processing: Expert-level Pandas, Polars, NumPy and optimization techniques for large datasets
- Cloud platforms: Hands-on with GCP (preferred), AWS, or Azure including containerization, Cloud functions/serverless compute
- Database proficiency: Excellent Oracle PLSQL and RDBMS experience (Oracle)
- Scheduling: Experience with Control-M or other scheduling tools
- ETL knowledge : Exposure with Informatica Powercenter
- Business domain : Indexing knowledge beneficial
- Deployment : Experience with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code (Terraform)
- A high motivation to support and operate a complex & challenging data warehouse environment
- Excellent analytical skills
- Proficiency in written and spoken English
Additionally, you need to be a team player with good communication skills, highly motivated, flexible and show willingness to learn and adopt new technologies quickly.
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What You Can Expect from Us
Our people are the moving force behind our work. We are committed to building a culture that values diverse skills, perspectives, and experiences. If you have the skills, passion, and drive to help us bring clarity and transparency to capital markets, we want to work with you.
Together, we can grow your career in an environment that fuels creativity, drives innovation, and has real impact.
About ISS STOXX
ISS STOXX delivers world-class research, data, and technology solutions that empower capital market participants to pursue their visions with confidence. Our expertise spans indices, corporate governance, sustainability, cyber risk, and fund intelligence, giving clients the tools they need to uncover opportunities, manage risks, and navigate evolving regulations. We are made up of 4,000 professionals operating across 20 countries and serving approximately 5,000 clients, including many of the world’s leading institutional investors. Our scale and reach give us deep market knowledge, while our innovative methodologies allow us to offer our clients tailored insights that drive impact and success.
ISS STOXX Indices, including the renowned STOXX and DAX families, sets the standard for rules-based, transparent, and liquid benchmarks and indices. Our ready-made products and customized solutions are used by sophisticated institutional investors, ETF issuers, and providers of derivatives and structured products.
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Skills Required
- Deep Python mastery including design patterns, OOP, and idiomatic code
- FastAPI expertise with 4+ years building high-performance APIs
- Expert-level data processing with Pandas, Polars, NumPy and large dataset optimization
- Experience with cloud platforms and containerization (GCP/AWS/Azure, Docker); serverless compute
- Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Experience designing and optimizing data architectures leveraging BigQuery
- Strong Oracle PL/SQL and RDBMS (Oracle) proficiency
- Experience with scheduling tools such as Control-M
- Exposure to Informatica PowerCenter (ETL)
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform)
- Ability to provide 1st and 2nd line application support for production systems
- Proficiency in written and spoken English
ISS (Institutional Shareholder Services) Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about ISS (Institutional Shareholder Services) and has not been reviewed or approved by ISS (Institutional Shareholder Services).
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Retirement Support — Retirement plans include a notably strong 401(k) match with a Safe Harbor contribution that stands out within the package. The retirement offering is regarded as a highlight relative to other elements of total rewards.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off, paid holidays, and parental leave are substantial components of the package. Time-away benefits are often described as a standout compared with other facets of compensation.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, and vision coverage are comprehensive within the standard package. Health coverage is generally viewed as solid, albeit characterized as middle of the road in some descriptions.
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What We Do
Founded in 1985, Institutional Shareholder Services group of companies (ISS) empowers investors and companies to build for long-term and sustainable growth by providing high-quality data, analytics and insight. ISS, which is majority owned by Deutsche Bourse Group, along with Genstar Capital and ISS management, is a leading provider of corporate governance and responsible investment solutions, market intelligence, fund services, and events and editorial content for institutional investors and corporations, globally. ISS’ 2,200 employees operate worldwide across 29 global locations in 15 countries. It’s approximately 3,100 clients include many of the world’s leading institutional investors who rely on ISS’ objective and impartial offerings, as well as public companies focused on ESG and governance risk mitigation as a shareholder value enhancing measure. Clients rely on ISS’ expertise to help them make informed investment decisions.







