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About the Role:

Grade Level (for internal use):

Segment: S&P Global Energy

Role: Senior Lead Engineer/Architect

The Team

S&P Global Commodity Insights empowers organizations to create long-term, sustainable value by providing data and insights that deliver a comprehensive view of global energy and commodities markets.

The Impact

You will play a crucial role in developing products for the ETSS group. As a Senior Lead Software Developer, you will lead architecture and help define enterprise and application architectures centered on data modeling and agentic AI applications, leveraging APIs, information models, and interoperability standards, while providing technical leadership across the delivery lifecycle.

What’s in it for you

You’ll work in a fast-paced, agile environment handling high data volumes—an opportunity to deepen your data and systems expertise while building on an emerging AI-enabled technology stack.

Responsibilities

Autonomous AI agent development: Design, implement, and optimize autonomous agents capable of long-horizon reasoning, planning, and multi-step task execution.
Tooling & API integration: Build agent capabilities that integrate with enterprise APIs, databases, and operational tools to enable real-world workflows (e.g., scheduling, research, automation).
Agentic platform engineering: Leverage and extend agent orchestration and workflow frameworks to build scalable, maintainable agentic solutions.
Reasoning & memory systems: Design memory approaches (short-term, long-term, episodic) to support context-aware decision-making and continuity across tasks.
Multi-agent collaboration: Create systems where specialized agents coordinate and collaborate to solve complex problems, including task decomposition and delegation.
Testing, evaluation & optimization: Implement evaluation pipelines to improve safety, reliability, accuracy, cost efficiency, and performance of autonomous workflows.
Scalability & production deployment: Deploy and operate agentic services in production environments with strong standards for robustness, scalability, observability, and security.
Research & innovation: Stay current with advances in large language models, agentic AI, and autonomous systems; propose and prototype solutions that address business needs.

What We’re Looking For

Basic Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
10+ years of experience in application development, including application architecture, information modeling, data governance, software development, and system integration.
Strong programming experience in Python (experience with modern web development frameworks is a plus).
Hands-on experience building with large language models, including model selection, adaptation, and tuning techniques.
Experience with agentic AI / LLM application frameworks for tool use, orchestration, and workflow management.
Knowledge of prompting strategies, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and tool-augmented AI patterns.
Familiarity with major cloud platforms and modern deployment practices, including containerization and cluster orchestration.
Background in knowledge graphs, vector search, and embedding-based retrieval.
Proven hands-on experience with API design, microservices, cloud computing, ETL, CI/CD, and production operations.
Exceptional documentation and diagramming skills (e.g., UML or equivalent).
Excellent interpersonal, negotiation, and influencing skills; able to communicate complex technical concepts across teams and leadership levels.
Strong critical thinking, abstract problem solving, analytical ability, and attention to detail.

Preferred Qualifications

Demonstrated experience building autonomous research and/or task-solving agents.
Experience implementing multi-agent coordination and agentic workflows in enterprise settings.
Experience contributing to shared internal platforms, standards, or community-driven software initiatives.
Knowledge of AI safety, alignment concepts, and ethical AI design principles.

What’s In It For You?

Our Mission:

Advancing Essential Intelligence.

Our People:

We're more than 35,000 strong worldwide—so we're able to understand nuances while having a broad perspective. Our team is driven by curiosity and a shared belief that Essential Intelligence can help build a more prosperous future for us all.From finding new ways to measure sustainability to analyzing energy transition across the supply chain to building workflow solutions that make it easy to tap into insight and apply it. We are changing the way people see things and empowering them to make an impact on the world we live in. We’re committed to a more equitable future and to helping our customers find new, sustainable ways of doing business. Join us and help create the critical insights that truly make a difference.

Our Values:Integrity, Discovery, Partnership

Throughout our history, the world's leading organizations have relied on us for the Essential Intelligence they need to make confident decisions about the road ahead. We start with a foundation of integrity in all we do, bring a spirit of discovery to our work, and collaborate in close partnership with each other and our customers to achieve shared goals.

Benefits:

We take care of you, so you can take care of business. We care about our people. That’s why we provide everything you—and your career—need to thrive at S&P Global.

Our benefits include:

Health & Wellness: Health care coverage designed for the mind and body.
Flexible Downtime: Generous time off helps keep you energized for your time on.
Continuous Learning: Access a wealth of resources to grow your career and learn valuable new skills.
Invest in Your Future: Secure your financial future through competitive pay, retirement planning, a continuing education program with a company-matched student loan contribution, and financial wellness programs.
Family Friendly Perks: It’s not just about you. S&P Global has perks for your partners and little ones, too, with some best-in class benefits for families.
Beyond the Basics: From retail discounts to referral incentive awards—small perks can make a big difference.

For more information on benefits by country visit: https://spgbenefits.com/benefit-summaries

Global Hiring and Opportunity at S&P Global:

At S&P Global, we are committed to fostering a connected and engaged workplace where all individuals have access to opportunities based on their skills, experience, and contributions. Our hiring practices emphasize fairness, transparency, and merit, ensuring that we attract and retain top talent. By valuing different perspectives and promoting a culture of respect and collaboration, we drive innovation and power global markets.

Recruitment Fraud Alert:

If you receive an email from a spglobalind.com domain or any other regionally based domains, it is a scam and should be reported to reportfraud@spglobal.com. S&P Global never requires any candidate to pay money for job applications, interviews, offer letters, “pre-employment training” or for equipment/delivery of equipment. Stay informed and protect yourself from recruitment fraud by reviewing our guidelines, fraudulent domains, and how to report suspicious activity here.

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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.

If you need an accommodation during the application process due to a disability, please send an email to: EEO.Compliance@spglobal.com and your request will be forwarded to the appropriate person.  US Candidates Only: Know Your Rights: Workplace discrimination is illegal

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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)

Details

Location

Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

Experience

Min. 10 years

About the Role:

Grade Level (for internal use):

Segment: S&P Global Energy

Role: Senior Lead Engineer/Architect

The Team

S&P Global Commodity Insights empowers organizations to create long-term, sustainable value by providing data and insights that deliver a comprehensive view of global energy and commodities markets.

The Impact

What’s in it for you

You’ll work in a fast-paced, agile environment handling high data volumes—an opportunity to deepen your data and systems expertise while building on an emerging AI-enabled technology stack.

Responsibilities

Autonomous AI agent development: Design, implement, and optimize autonomous agents capable of long-horizon reasoning, planning, and multi-step task execution.
Tooling & API integration: Build agent capabilities that integrate with enterprise APIs, databases, and operational tools to enable real-world workflows (e.g., scheduling, research, automation).
Agentic platform engineering: Leverage and extend agent orchestration and workflow frameworks to build scalable, maintainable agentic solutions.
Reasoning & memory systems: Design memory approaches (short-term, long-term, episodic) to support context-aware decision-making and continuity across tasks.
Multi-agent collaboration: Create systems where specialized agents coordinate and collaborate to solve complex problems, including task decomposition and delegation.
Testing, evaluation & optimization: Implement evaluation pipelines to improve safety, reliability, accuracy, cost efficiency, and performance of autonomous workflows.
Scalability & production deployment: Deploy and operate agentic services in production environments with strong standards for robustness, scalability, observability, and security.
Research & innovation: Stay current with advances in large language models, agentic AI, and autonomous systems; propose and prototype solutions that address business needs.

What We’re Looking For

Basic Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
10+ years of experience in application development, including application architecture, information modeling, data governance, software development, and system integration.
Strong programming experience in Python (experience with modern web development frameworks is a plus).
Hands-on experience building with large language models, including model selection, adaptation, and tuning techniques.
Experience with agentic AI / LLM application frameworks for tool use, orchestration, and workflow management.
Knowledge of prompting strategies, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and tool-augmented AI patterns.
Familiarity with major cloud platforms and modern deployment practices, including containerization and cluster orchestration.
Background in knowledge graphs, vector search, and embedding-based retrieval.
Proven hands-on experience with API design, microservices, cloud computing, ETL, CI/CD, and production operations.
Exceptional documentation and diagramming skills (e.g., UML or equivalent).
Excellent interpersonal, negotiation, and influencing skills; able to communicate complex technical concepts across teams and leadership levels.
Strong critical thinking, abstract problem solving, analytical ability, and attention to detail.

Preferred Qualifications

Demonstrated experience building autonomous research and/or task-solving agents.
Experience implementing multi-agent coordination and agentic workflows in enterprise settings.
Experience contributing to shared internal platforms, standards, or community-driven software initiatives.
Knowledge of AI safety, alignment concepts, and ethical AI design principles.

What’s In It For You?

Our Mission:

Advancing Essential Intelligence.

Our People:

Our Values:Integrity, Discovery, Partnership

Benefits:

We take care of you, so you can take care of business. We care about our people. That’s why we provide everything you—and your career—need to thrive at S&P Global.

Our benefits include:

Health & Wellness: Health care coverage designed for the mind and body.
Flexible Downtime: Generous time off helps keep you energized for your time on.
Continuous Learning: Access a wealth of resources to grow your career and learn valuable new skills.
Invest in Your Future: Secure your financial future through competitive pay, retirement planning, a continuing education program with a company-matched student loan contribution, and financial wellness programs.
Family Friendly Perks: It’s not just about you. S&P Global has perks for your partners and little ones, too, with some best-in class benefits for families.
Beyond the Basics: From retail discounts to referral incentive awards—small perks can make a big difference.

For more information on benefits by country visit: https://spgbenefits.com/benefit-summaries

Global Hiring and Opportunity at S&P Global:

Recruitment Fraud Alert:

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Equal Opportunity Employer

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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)