About the Role:

Grade Level (for internal use):

08

The Team
The IT Operations team at S&P Dow Jones Indices (S&P DJI) is tasked with owning and maintaining the Production IT systems that underpin S&P DJI's index platforms and applications, ensuring their high availability. The team prioritizes service availability, service request management, and continuous improvement of support processes through collaborative engagement with business stakeholders, operations, infrastructure, and development teams. Additionally, the team is involved in critical activities such as incident management, emergency response, change management, problem management, and capacity planning to support the robustness of S&P DJI's index platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide Daily Level-2 production support for Index Data Platforms, ensuring high availability and timely resolution of issues.
• Monitor and validate Daily data load jobs, proactively identifying failures and performance degradation.
• Support Historical Data migration activities, including validation, reconciliation, and issue resolution.
• Respond to critical production incidents, deliver immediate workarounds, and drive restoration to meet business continuity needs.
• Partner with business operations to deliver day-to-day technical and data support, including investigation of data queries and operational issues.
• Perform root-cause analysis, log and track defects, and collaborate with engineering teams through resolution and release.
• Escalate high-impact or non-resolvable issues appropriately, providing clear status updates and ETA to stakeholders and customers.
• Conduct scheduled system health checks, publish outcomes, and notify internal/external stakeholders of risks or anomalies.
• Troubleshoot issues involving external parties such as stock exchanges and market data distributors.
• Lead or facilitate post-incident reviews (post-mortems) and ensure corrective and preventive actions are documented and tracked.
• Maintain and continuously improve support documentation, including runbooks, checkout procedures, and escalation paths.
• Execute disaster recovery processes and support change management activities (change tickets, approvals, and release coordination).
• Coordinate with vendor partners and data hosting providers to resolve technical issues and service disruptions.
• Communicate effectively with global customers, business users, and IT stakeholders, ensuring clarity and responsiveness.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or Engineering is required, or in lieu, a demonstrated equivalence in work experience.
• 3-5 years of experience in Level-2 Application/Data production support is required
• Experience in Microsoft SQL Server , Oracle , Postgres Database or any relational database , PL/SQL troubleshoot & stored procedures knowledge required.
• Good knowledge and experience in supporting enterprise applications using Microsoft .NET (C# MVC), Java, RDBMS, and modern web technologies.
• Experience in writing Unix Shell scripts is required.
• Experience working on AWS services like ECS, EC2, RDS, S3, Cloud Watch, EMR, Lambda, Glue, etc. is required.
• Strong Experience with monitoring and observability platforms such as Datadog or any other observability/monitoring tool like Dynatrace,Grafana etc.
• Experience with DevOps practices and CI/CD pipeline management using tools like Jenkins, or Azure DevOps etc.
• Familiarity with ITSM processes & tools such as ServiceNow, PagerDuty, or similar incident management platforms.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills are essential, with strong verbal and writing proficiencies.

Additional Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge in Financial Services with experience in Index/Benchmarks, Asset Management, or Portfolio Investment domains.
• Experience working with large datasets in Equity, Commodities, Forex, Futures and Options asset classes.

About S&P Global Dow Jones Indices 

At S&P Dow Jones Indices, we provide iconic and innovative index solutions backed by unparalleled expertise across the asset-class spectrum. By bringing transparency to the global capital markets, we empower investors everywhere to make decisions with conviction. We’re the largest global resource for index-based concepts, data and research, and home to iconic financial market indicators, such as the S&P 500® and the Dow Jones Industrial Average®. More assets are invested in products based upon our indices than any other index provider in the world. With over USD 7.4 trillion in passively managed assets linked to our indices and over USD 11.3 trillion benchmarked to our indices, our solutions are widely considered indispensable in tracking market performance, evaluating portfolios and developing investment strategies. 

S&P Dow Jones Indices is a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI). S&P Global is the world’s foremost provider of credit ratings, benchmarks, analytics and workflow solutions in the global capital, commodity and automotive markets. With every one of our offerings, we help many of the world’s leading organizations navigate the economic landscape so they can plan for tomorrow, today. For more information, visit www.spglobal.com/spdji. 

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.

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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.  
 
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