Global Head, Data Science

Company: S&P Global, Inc.
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Location: Greater London
Job Description:

About the Role

Grade Level (for internal use): 15

The Team

The Enterprise Solutions Technology team is dedicated to delivering next-generation, high-scale technology platforms through resilient architecture, data excellence, and engineering innovation. Our mission is to enhance our digital presence and improve customer engagement across Lending, Corporate Actions, Tax, Regulatory & Compliance, Regulatory Reporting, Public Markets, and Private Markets portfolio monitoring.

Role

We are seeking a Data Scientist Leader to lead the design, development, and operation of high-rigor analytical and machine-learning systems across a complex, regulated financial-services estate. This is a strategy-led and hands-on applied data science and ML engineering role, responsible for defining the AI/ML roadmap for Enterprise Solutions while also building high-rigor analytical and predictive models for anomaly detection, variance analysis, drift detection, market and behavioral signals, forecasting, and prediction. The expectation is production-grade models, comparable in rigor to fraud, risk, or surveillance systems.

What’s In for you

The role exists to ensure AI/ML strategy is sound and that analytical models are correct, explainable, reliable in production, and able to withstand operational and regulatory scrutiny.

You will work closely with engineering, data platform, and product teams to take models from problem definition through to production operation, including feature engineering, back-testing, deployment, monitoring, and ongoing performance management.

You will get involved early in complex or high-risk analytical problems and step in when models degrade or fail in production. A key part of the role is knowing when to apply advanced modelling, when simpler approaches are sufficient, and when modelling is not appropriate.

You may have limited line management responsibility, but impact is driven primarily through hands-on technical contribution, review, and influence.

Responsibilities

  • Strong experience delivering applied data science and machine learning in production within banking, capital markets, or similarly regulated, data-intensive environments.
  • Deep grounding in statistics, machine learning, time-series analysis, and predictive modelling, with experience building models under real operational constraints.
  • Hands-on ownership of the full model lifecycle: data exploration, feature engineering, model development, back-testing, validation, deployment, monitoring, and ongoing tuning.
  • Extensive experience working with large, complex, and imperfect datasets, including missing data, outliers, regime changes, noisy labels, and evolving schemas.
  • Strong understanding of production ML system design, including batch vs real-time inference, model serving patterns, performance trade-offs, and failure modes.
  • Experience operating models in production over time, including versioning, drift detection, retraining strategies, and incident response when models misbehave.
  • Practical experience designing explainable models suitable for regulated environments, including feature attribution and model transparency techniques.
  • Experience combining statistical models, ML, semantic models, and rules-based logic where needed to achieve accuracy, stability, and explainability.
  • Strong focus on data quality, anomaly detection, and monitoring, including metrics that surface real issues and drive sustained improvement.

Experience & Mindset

  • 20+ years working with analytics, data science, or ML systems in production, with significant experience in financial services or other regulated, high-availability domains.
  • Comfortable working directly with data, models, and code, and collaborating closely with software engineers and platform teams.
  • Pragmatic and outcome-driven; measures success by models that run reliably in production, adapt to changing conditions, and withstand scrutiny.
  • Clear communicator who can explain modelling choices, assumptions, and limitations to engineers, product partners, and senior stakeholders.
  • Acts as a technical mentor to other data scientists through review, pairing, and example, with limited people management where appropriate.

About S&P Global Market Intelligence

At S&P Global Market Intelligence, a division of S&P Global, we understand the importance of accurate, deep and insightful information. Our team delivers unrivaled insights and leading data and technology solutions to help customers expand their perspective and make informed decisions.

What’s In It For You?

Our mission is to advance Essential Intelligence. We’re more than 35,000 strong worldwide, driven by curiosity and a shared belief in creating a more prosperous future. We are committed to integrity, discovery, and partnership.

Benefits

  • Health & Wellness: Health care coverage designed for the mind and body.
  • Flexible Downtime: Generous time off to stay energized.
  • Continuous Learning: Resources to grow your career and learn new skills.
  • Invest in Your Future: Competitive pay, retirement planning, and education programs.
  • Family Friendly Perks: Perks for partners and dependents.
  • Other Perks: Additional benefits and discounts.

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

Equal Opportunity Employer

S&P Global is an equal opportunity employer. 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.

If you need an accommodation during the application process due to a disability, please email EEO.Compliance@spglobal.com.

US Candidates Only: EEO is the Law posters and pay transparency notices apply where required.

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Posted: April 17th, 2026