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11Company Name: Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC Job Title: Site Reliability Engineer Location: 1 Independence Way, Princeton, NJ 08540 (Hybrid work schedule. On days not in office, telecommuting permitted within normal commuting distance of Princeton, NJ office.)
Job Duties: Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC seeks a Site Reliability Engineer who will design, develop, and implement solutions to eliminate existing defects within our workflow applications while increasing productivity for clients. Work with business teams to understand business requirements and design, develop and implement optimal software solutions and design. Confer with system analysts, engineers, and others to design systems to implement integrated ratings solutions, including training our teams on existing functionality, providing design and technical guidance. Validate system functionality and resolve defects and bugs reported by quality assurance (QA) teams. Build out new functionality and enhancements for our user community. Implement workflow software into clients' software systems, including maintaining and remediating any issues that may arise. Ensure our Ratings products are delivered in a timely manner. Modify existing software to correct errors, adapt it to new hardware (CASS, FASS) platforms, upgrade interfaces, and improve performance. Conduct defect remediation, including backend data changes, root cause analysis, expedited fixes, and scheduled software fixes for Pega-based workflow applications. Provide benchmarks for minimum performance standards and test whether implemented software meets these standards. Review technical code and provide feedback to align with coding best practices and architectural standards. Perform ongoing analysis, design, development, implementation and maintenance of user interfaces and business rules strategies in PEGA. Provide technical leadership and mentoring to team members, guiding them in best practices and new technologies.
Job Requirements: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electronic Engineering, or a related IT field, plus five (5) years of experience in software development or a related occupation. Five (5) years of experience must include: Supporting and troubleshooting Pega-based workflows and applications in production environments; Developing, debugging, and supporting enterprise-scale Java applications; Application deployment, configuration, performance tuning, and issue resolution in WebSphere environments; IBM MQ for message-based integration, including queue management, monitoring, and troubleshooting message flow issues; Incident, Problem, and Change Management, including experience handling production incidents, driving root cause analysis, and supporting change and release processes.
Three (3) years of experience must include: Designing, consuming, and troubleshooting SOAP and RESTful web services; Writing and optimizing PL/SQL queries, procedures, and troubleshooting database-related issues.
The anticipated base salary range for this position is $155,100 to $170,400. Final base salary for this role will be based on the individual’s geographic location, as well as experience level, skill set, training, licenses & certifications. In addition to base compensation, this role is eligible for an annual incentive plan. Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC is part of S&P Global and this role is eligible to receive additional S&P Global benefits. For more information on the benefits we provide to our employees, please see: https://spgbenefits.com/benefit-summaries/us.
About S&P Global Ratings At S&P Global Ratings, our analyst-driven credit ratings, research, and sustainable finance opinions provide critical insights that are essential to translating complexity into clarity so market participants can uncover opportunities and make decisions with conviction. By bringing transparency to the market through high-quality independent opinions on creditworthiness, we enable growth across a wide variety of organizations, including businesses, governments, and institutions. S&P Global Ratings 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/ratings
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.
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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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Job ID: 331160 Posted On: 2026-10-30 Location: Princeton, New Jersey, United States