Senior Consultant

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Our widely recognized investment data and analyses are used around the world by financial decision-makers to help create growth and manage wealth, With approxiamately 8,500 employees in 21 countries, Standard & Poor's is an essential part of the world's financial infrastructure and has played a leading role for more than 140 years in providing investors with the independent benchmarks they need to feel more confident about their investment and financial decisions As a worldwide organization focuses on the clients we serve,Standard & Poor’sprovides a wide array of financial data and information. We realize that the key to delivering objective intelligence to financial decision-makers is to leverage the diverseperspectives of our intellectual capital to bring greater insight and clarity to the world’sincreasingly complex financial markets, That’s why we constantly strive for a workplace that is inclusive and values each individual’s background and their contribution to oursuccess. 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Senior Consultant Job Description Standard & Poor's, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, is the world's foremost provider of independent credit ratings, indices, risk evaluation, investment research, data and valuations. An essential part of the world's financial infrastructure, Standard & Poor's has played a leading role for more than 140 years in providing investors with the independent benchmarks they need to feel more confident about their investment and financial decisions. And we do it with the utmost integrity. If our values speak to you, then speak to us. We are seeking an experienced and highly motivated Senior Software Engineer within S&P’s Risk Solutions business unit responsible for developing commercial credit risk products.  The candidate must be able to demonstrate an ability to analyze, design and implement complex software to support a variety of credit risk products.  The successful candidate will need to bring a product engineering mindset backed by industry experience that reflects repeated full systems lifecycle experience on complex financial/capital markets systems. The Senior Software Engineer will be responsible for development and delivery working with a collaborative team of business and technical professionals.  The role will entail working closely with the Product Management team, S&P’s infrastructure teams, and other members of the Product Engineering team. The position will report to the business unit’s Development Director.  8+ years hands-on development of large scale financial and capital markets systems, e.g. risk management systems (credit, market), trading systems, etc. 4+ years in database development and query performance/tuning Strong design and implementation skills in J2EE development across all tiers of an application Highly proficient with MS SQL Server and/or Oracle Strong proficiency in open source development on a Windows and Linux platform using tools such as Eclipse, Subversion, Ant, Maven, JUnit, JBoss, etc. Strong interpersonal, communication, and organizational skills and ability to be in a market facing role Demonstrated skills in leadership and management Ability to perform under stress to deliver on committed timelines Desire to work in an entrepreneurial environment and to stay hands-on technical Strong documentation discipline for all SDLC artifacts — business requirements, functional specifications and detailed designEducation Required: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or Engineering is required, or in lieu, a demonstrated equivalence in work experience MS in Computer Science highly desirableAdditional Preferred:  Strong financial knowledge in fixed income and/or credit instruments Understanding of credit risk management Development experience using open source technologies, e.g., Linux, Eclipse, Spring, Hibernate ORM Exposure to agile development methodologies Prior experience in a software product development role Development experience with Service Oriented Architecture Copyright 2008 Standard & Poor's, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies. 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