Solution Architect

The Team:
A highly talented skilled developers, architects with solid development background who build frameworks, libraries, web apps, mobile apps, reference implementations, solutions, design blue prints etc. that are leveraged across the Ratings applications. This is the Core Services team who are experts in multiple technologies Microservices, Java, Python, Open Search, AI/ML , Apache Kafka, AWS. Kubernetes, Kong API Gateway.

The Impact:
The candidate will be part of the core services team responsible for building next gen solutions that are used across the Ratings division. This team will be responsible for building solution blue prints / reference implementations and build scalable, resilient low latency and highly performant applications

Whats in it for you:

S&P Global is an employee friendly company with various benefits and with primary focus on skill development. The technology division has a wide variety of yearly goals that help the employee train and certify in niche technologies like:Generative AI Transformation of applications to CaaS CI/CD/CD gold transformation Data Mining opportunities Develop leadership skills and business knowledge training.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

A very hands on developer who could work independently to build new applications or frameworks / solutions that are leveraged across Ratings division

Strong focus on developing robust solutions meeting high-security standards.

Build and maintain new applications/platforms for growing business needs.

Quickly adapt to new technologies and solutions

Very flexible at working with different solutions / products / legacy applications

Design and build future state architecture to support new use cases.

Ensure scalable and reusable architecture as well as code quality.

Integrate new use cases and work with global teams.

Work with/support users to understand issues, develop root cause analysis and work with the product team for the development of enhancements/fixes.

As part of a global team of engineers/developers, deliver continuous high reliability to our technology services.

Strong focus towards developing permanent fixes to issues and heavy automation of manual tasks.

Provide technical guidance to junior level resources.

Works on analyzing/researching alternative solutions and developing/implementing recommendations accordingly.

Qualifications:
Required:

Bachelor / MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject

Good written and oral communication skills.

Must have 10+ years of working experience in Microservices, Java, Python, React, Apache Solr or Open Search, AI/ML

Must have API development experience

Work experience with asynchronous/synchronous messaging using Apache Kafka, etc.

Ability to use CICD flow and distribution pipelines to deploy applications

Working experience with DevOps tools such as Git, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Maven

Solid understanding of Cloud technologies, Kubernetes (AWS preferred)

Nice to have:

Experience in building single-page applications with Angular or ReactJS in conjunction with Python scripting.

Working experience with API Gateway, Apache and Tomcat server, Helm, Ansible, Terraform, CI/CD, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Git, Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, Jaeger (or other OTEL products), LDAP, OKTA, Confluent Platform, Active MQ