Director, Software Development

Company: The McGraw-Hill Companies
Location: Charlottesville
Posted on: February 13, 2020

Job Description:

DIRECTOR, SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT Description The Role: S & P Global Market Intelligence, a best-in-class sector-focused news and financial information provider, is looking for a Director of Software Engineering to lead Software Development teams in either our Charlottesville, VA, Centennial, CO, or Princeton, NJ office. The Impact: You will utilize your technical knowledge and analytical skills to develop the products that our clients use daily. You will help provide mentorship and insight to a team of developers and stretch your knowledge as we come up with new solutions to the challenges we encounter. We provide the data and analytics required for every single day decisions in the capital and commodities markets. The Career Opportunity: Are you encouraged by meaningful solutions that can directly impact the business? Do you enjoy working with global teams? In this role, you have a tremendous opportunity to develop personally and professionally. As a leader with us you will have the chance to work on enterprise level products and new technologies. Our technology is continuously evolving, ensuring that you are always learning new skills and facing new challenges. The Team / The Business: We have teams made up of people that like to learn and work effectively together. Opportunities are presented every single day to work with people from a wide variety of backgrounds and you have the opportunity to develop a close team dynamic with coworkers from around the globe. Job Responsibilities: This role will be responsible for driving success of our engineering teams and ensuring we maintain a common engineering and quality focus throughout the organization. This individual will be responsible for helping define the vision, driving team execution, and overseeing the engineering process. This will require strong leadership capabilities, as well as the ability to roll-up-yoursleeves to ensure alignment across technology, product and business stakeholders. Successful candidates should be able to: - Lead multiple teams that are focused on creating cutting edge products - Provide technical guidance and mentoring to the team and help them embrace change as new processes are introduced - Establish and maintain a high engineering bar with a rigorous, yet agile development - Lead and assist with the recruitment of highly motivated and driven technology talent and further develop that talent once on board - Be responsible for leading, design and implementation of new features and iterations of our core platform - Solve problems, analyze and isolate issues - Collaborate effectively with technical and non-technical partners - Continuously improve the architecture and quality of the code Qualifications - 4+ years of engineering leadership experience - managing multiple teams and/or locations - 8+ years of Software Engineering experience including Microsoft technologies, JavaScript, JavaScript frameworks (Angularjs, Durandaljs, Backbonejs, Knockoutjs, and Bootstrapjs) HTML, C# - Proficient with software development lifecycle (SDLC) methodologies like Agile, Test- driven development. - Solid understanding and experience in the Agile methodology, hands on management of agile, iterative development spanning specification, prototyping, architecture, QA, operations and support - Understanding of cloud based development methodologies and state of the art design patterns - Strong people management skills, proven success in recruiting, creating and motivating a strong performing engineering team. - BS/MS degree in Computer Science About S & P Global Market Intelligence At S & P Global Market Intelligence, we know that not all information is importantsome of it is vital. Accurate, deep and insightful. We integrate financial and industry data, research and news into tools that help track performance, generate alpha, identify investment ideas, understand competitive and industry dynamics, perform valuation and assess credit risk. Investment professionals, government agencies, corporations and universities globally can gain the intelligence essential to making business and financial decisions with conviction. S & P Global Market Intelligence is a division of S & P Global (NYSE: SPGI), which provides essential intelligence for individuals, companies and governments to make decisions with confidence. For more information, visit, S & P Global Market Intelligence To all recruitment agencies: S & P Global does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Please do not forward such resumes to any S & P Global employee, office location or website. S & P Global will not be responsible for any fees related such resumes. S & P Global is an equal opportunity employer committed to making all employment decisions without regard to race/ethnicity, gender, pregnancy, gender identity or expression, color, creed, religion, national origin, age, disability, marital status (including domestic partnerships and civil unions), sexual orientation, military veteran status, unemployment status, or any other basis prohibited by federal, state or local law. Only electronic job submissions will be considered for employment. If you need an accommodation during the application process due to a disability, please send an email to: and your request will be forwarded to the appropriate person. The EEO is the Law Poster describes discrimination protections under federal law.

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