Software Engineer Lead

About Mobility Global 
S&P Global has recently announced the intent to separate our Mobility Segment into a standalone public company.  

Role Summary 

The Software Engineer Lead will own and drive major corporate platform initiatives—modernizing and enhancing core enterprise systems, migrating platforms and workloads, and consolidating tools/technology stacks to improve reliability, security, scalability, and cost-efficiency. Working with the Heads of Corporate Platform teams and the functional business owners, you will lead technical delivery end-to-end: architecture, execution, quality, and operational readiness. 

Key Responsibilities 

Technical Leadership & Delivery 

• Lead the technical strategy and execution for platform enhancement, migration, and consolidation programs (e.g., application rationalization, shared services adoption, legacy retirement). 

• Own end-to-end delivery: requirements discovery, solution design, implementation, testing, cutover, and post-migration stabilization. 

• Set engineering direction through reference architectures, patterns, standards, and guardrails (performance, resiliency, observability, security). 

• Drive technical decision-making with a bias for measurable outcomes (availability, latency, cost, deployment frequency, incident reduction). 

Architecture, Modernization, and Consolidation 

• Design solutions to reduce duplication across corporate systems, including consolidation of services, data stores, CI/CD pipelines, and operational tooling. 

• Guide modernization efforts such as service decomposition, API standardization, event-driven patterns, and cloud/platform adoption where appropriate. 

• Lead integration strategies across identity, access, data, and enterprise applications. 

Migration & Cutover Excellence 

• Define migration approaches (rehost, replatform, refactor) and execute with minimal downtime and risk. 

• Create and run cutover plans, including rollback strategies, runbooks, verification checklists, and stakeholder communications. 

• Manage data migration planning: mapping, transformation, validation, reconciliation, and retention/compliance considerations. 

Engineering Management (Technical Lead Scope) 

• Lead a team of engineers (directly or matrixed): provide technical guidance, unblock delivery, and uphold high engineering standards. 

• Own code quality practices: design reviews, code reviews, test strategy, and technical documentation. 

• Mentor engineers; build a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and operational ownership. 

Reliability, Security, and Operations 

• Ensure production readiness, 

• Partner with security and compliance to implement secure-by-design practices (threat modeling, least privilege, auditability, secrets handling). 

• Drive post-launch improvements using operational insights: incident learnings, performance bottlenecks, and customer feedback. 

Stakeholder & Program Collaboration 

• Partner with Corporate platform teams, product, enterprise architecture, infrastructure, IT, and business stakeholders to align roadmap, scope, and sequencing. 

• Translate business goals into technical plans; proactively manage risks, dependencies, and delivery tradeoffs. 

• Communicate progress through concise status updates, technical demos, and executive-ready summaries. 

Required Skills 

Core Engineering 

• Strong proficiency in one or more modern programming languages (e.g., Java, C#, Python, Go, TypeScript). 

• Deep experience building distributed systems: APIs, services, asynchronous processing, caching, and data persistence. 

• Experience configuring and customizing SAAS applications. 

• Strong SDLC discipline: version control, branching strategies, testing pyramids, and release management. 

Platform, Migration, and Consolidation Expertise 

• Proven success leading large-scale migrations (apps and/or data), including phased rollouts and zero/low-downtime strategies. 

• Hands-on experience with legacy modernization and platform consolidation (decommissioning, dependency mapping, migration waves). 

Leadership & Communication 

• Strong technical writing: architecture docs, ADRs, runbooks, operational readiness checklists. 

• Ability to influence without authority and drive alignment across multiple teams. 

• Pragmatic decision-making under constraints (timeline, risk, cost, regulatory needs). 

Required Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience. 

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 2+ years in a lead role (tech lead, staff/lead engineer, or engineering manager with hands-on delivery). 

• Demonstrated delivery of enterprise-grade platform initiatives involving migration and/or consolidation with measurable outcomes. 

Preferred Qualifications 

• Experience leading multi-team programs with complex dependencies. 

• Experience with enterprise identity and access patterns (SSO, RBAC), data governance, and audit requirements. 

• Familiarity with domain-driven design, event-driven architectures, and platform engineering practices. 

• Experience with cost optimization and FinOps-style practices in cloud environments. 

Success Metrics (Example) 

• Migration/consolidation delivered on schedule with measured reductions in operational cost and system complexity. 

• Improved reliability (e.g., fewer sev-1/2 incidents, higher availability) and better delivery performance (deployment frequency/lead time). 

• Reduced technical debt through decommissioning legacy components and establishing reusable platform capabilities. 

• Strong engineering health: high code quality, clear documentation, predictable releases, and improved on-call outcomes. 

Working Model / Collaboration 

• Works closely with: Enterprise Architecture, Security, Infrastructure/Platform, SRE/Operations, Product Management, and Business Owners. 

• May participate in on-call escalation and operational reviews depending on platform criticality. 

We require all candidates who reach the final stage of our interview process to attend at least one in-person interview, which is ordinarily at your nearest S&P Global office. This must be completed before we can proceed to an offer.