Sr. Distinguished Engineer
S&P Global5 days ago
Base Salary
$220k - $325k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and execute technology vision and architecture strategy across the full technology stack.
- Evaluate and pilot emerging technologies, including agentic AI, and guide strategic technology investments.
- Drive collaboration with Product, Platform, Quality Engineering, and Architecture teams across the product development lifecycle.
- Establish measurable outcomes and evaluation frameworks for new technical capabilities.
- Partner with Risk, Compliance, and Internal Audit to support regulatory compliance.
- Build technical capability through reusable patterns, standards, coaching, and hands-on partnership.
- Influence adoption and organizational change through technical credibility rather than formal authority.
Requirements
- 10+ years of hands-on senior software engineering experience.
- Production experience with emerging technical domains such as agentic AI systems, LLM-based agents, orchestration frameworks, tool integration, and evaluation methodologies.
- Strong foundations in software and systems engineering, architecture design, quality engineering, CI/CD pipelines, and platform development.
- Experience setting technical direction, influencing architecture decisions, and driving organizational change as a senior technical individual contributor.
- Executive-level communication skills for explaining complex technical concepts to CTOs, risk committees, and senior engineering teams.
- Strong technical judgment in evaluating emerging technologies, assessing risk, and making recommendations.
- Preferred: experience in financial services, market data, index administration, or other regulated and high-accuracy domains.
- Preferred: experience with data quality and validation at scale, AI risk frameworks, model risk management, or technology governance.
- Preferred: experience across multiple major technology shifts and active engagement through open-source contributions, technical publications, or public technical work.
Benefits
- New York City-based role.
- Base salary range of $220,000 to $325,000 for US candidates, plus eligibility for an annual incentive plan.
- Health care coverage and generous paid time off.
- Continuous learning resources, retirement planning, continuing education, company-matched student loan contribution, and financial wellness programs.
- Family-oriented benefits, retail discounts, and referral incentive awards.