About the Role:Grade Level (for internal use):11
The Team:You will join the Product Platform Design (PPD) team, a dynamic group responsible for designing, building, and evolving S&P Dow Jones Indices' (SPDJI) core product platforms. Our platforms drive index creation, calculation, rebalancing, analytics, and distribution. We operate on a product-led, service-based delivery model, organized into value streams that align with major business domains. You will collaborate closely with Index Management, R&D, Operations, and Technology teams to deliver scalable, reusable data services.
The Impact:As a Technical Product Owner for Fixed Income Data, you will play a pivotal role in shaping our product direction and ensuring the operational robustness of our data platforms. You will act as a trusted advisor on complex data issues, using your analytical perspective to weave new approaches and innovative ideas into our processes. By bridging the gap between business and technology, you will deliver solutions that balance specific asset-class needs with the integrity of our shared data platform. Your work will directly improve efficiencies, enhance our organizational knowledge base, and influence peers to achieve defined strategic goals while leading by example in living the S&P Global purpose and values.
Responsibilities: - Serve as the Product Owner within the value stream, combining PO and BA responsibilities to define, prioritize, and lead the detailed delivery of work for agile teams.
- Translate complex business requirements into clear, actionable epics, features, and user stories.
- Own and manage the team backlog in Azure DevOps (ADO), ensuring alignment with broader business goals, platform standards, and the priorities of others.
- Act as a translator between business and technology, integrating and communicating complex technical information clearly to diverse audiences.
- Navigate incomplete or conflicting data to identify viable options and make pragmatic decisions in non-routine situations.`
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Index Management, R&D, Technology, Operations) and other Product Owners to manage cross-platform dependencies and sequencing.
- Advocate for high data quality, timeliness, and operational robustness, ensuring asset-specific requirements translate into reusable data services rather than bespoke silos.
- Define acceptance criteria, perform user acceptance testing (UAT), and actively support agile ceremonies.
- Proactively seek out new opportunities for innovation, leveraging the wider team and effective time management to ensure high-quality delivery on deadlines.
- All employees are required to work from the office a minimum of 2 days per week.
What We're Looking For:Basic Required Qualifications:
- An S&P Global employee at this level would typically have 7+ years of experience in Product Owner, Business Analyst, or hybrid PO/BA in an agile environment.
- Strong domain expertise in fixed income market data, corporate actions, classifications, and calendars, with an understanding of how these nuances impact operational workflows.
- Proven ability to engage in technical discussions, simplify complexity, and communicate effectively with both engineering teams and business stakeholders.
- Proficiency in managing product backlogs and agile workflows using tools like Azure DevOps (ADO) or Jira.
- Strong emotional intelligence with the ability to bounce back from setbacks, remain positive, and stay focused even in the face of challenges and obstacles.
- We require all candidates who reach the final stage of our interview process to attend at least one in-person interview, which is ordinarily at your nearest S&P Global office. This must be completed before we can proceed to an offer.
Additional Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience working within a horizontal data platform function, successfully balancing specific asset-class needs with shared platform integrity.
- Demonstrated ability to influence and advise junior colleagues in operational processes to achieve defined goals and objectives.
- Track record of building strong relationships and collaborating with peers outside of your immediate team or function.
- Familiarity with index calculation, rebalancing, and analytics platforms.
About S&P Global Dow Jones Indic e s 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 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, PartnershipThroughout our history,