Director, Full Stack Development Team Lead
Position summary
This Full stack Lead position provides technical design and development leadership insights within the Financial Markets Technology division responsible for the end to end design and delivery of IHS Markit’s Private Markets software focused on financial data management. The role is responsible for working with a global team of Engineers in support of this mission, with additional support from the wider technology organization. The ideal applicant will have an organized and creative mind-set (thought leader) that drives him or her to find innovative solutions to common problems with the right toolset. They will be passionate about technology and have a self-driven interest to keep up with the latest technology developments and relate them to the current product landscape
Duties & accountabilities
The role involves working as a Strong Leader / Technologist in an Agile Scrum team, reporting to the Technology Head. The teams are small and friendly and democratic and everyone is encouraged to contribute to their success. We can offer support and growth opportunities for more junior candidates and complex technical challenges for more experienced applicants.
- Leading a team of Senior and Junior Developers
- Facilitate system design and changes in system architecture for the enterprise application
- Maintain current knowledge of technology landscape and developments
- Take the initiative in thought leadership, innovation and creativity
- Mentor team on technology and other work-related aspects.
- Responsibility for quality of all deployed applications and services
- Drive innovation and adaption of best practices.
Education and experience
A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, or a related discipline, or equivalent qualification.
- 10+ years of development experience building enterprise software or platforms in a financial environment
- .Net/.Net Core C# - 5+ years
- React or equivalent - strongly preferred
- Proven experience leading an Agile team
- Preference given to candidates that have experience working with Microservices
- Expert on data management technologies (RMDBS, NoSQL)
- Good background on leveraging cloud technologies
- Should have good architecture and design skills
- Focus on Microsoft stack, but knowledgeable on cross-platform tech
- Can handle both front-end and backend development
- Ability to deliver products in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
Commercial awareness
- Financial industry experience would be useful.
- Should be able to produce cost benefit analysis around automation solutions being proposed
- Dollar Savings gained through overall automation
Management requirements
- Self-Starter and able to drive change in the business
- Able to provide regular progress and status updates on your development tasks to your manager and peers
- Manage and track progress of ongoing items you depend on
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Equal Opportunity Employer
S&P Global is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race/ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, marital status, military veteran status, unemployment status, or any other status protected by law. Only electronic job submissions will be considered for employment.
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20 - Professional (EEO-2 Job Categories-United States of America), IFTECH202.2 - Middle Professional Tier II (EEO Job Group), SWP Priority – Ratings - (Strategic Workforce Planning)
Job ID: R24617
Posted On: 2023-01-16
Location: Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom