Factset

FinTech

PlatformArchitectureLead

£120–170k ~AI est. United Kingdom FULL TIME Remote Friendly
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Platform Architecture Lead at Factset. Skills: Platform Architecture, Internal Developer Platform, Cloud Engineering. Lead architecture decisions for Internal Developer Platform. Oversee broad-impact projects”

What You'll Achieve.

Increase developer productivity; Improve operational reliability; Unlock new capabilities; Accelerate delivery; Enable novel client-facing technologies; Balance developer experience; Meet governance requirements; Meet compliance requirements

Industry & Context.

FinTech

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

B. S. or M. S. in Computer Science, Extensive development and platform engineering experience, Understanding of modern platform engineering, Deep experience with Kubernetes, Significant experience with major cloud provider

Nice to Have

Kubernetes cluster architecture, Kubernetes multi-tenancy, Kubernetes networking, Kubernetes operational patterns, Cloud provider infrastructure design, Cloud provider managed services, Cloud provider cost management, Cloud provider landing zone architecture, Platform architectural directions

What You'll Do.

Lead architecture decisions for Internal Developer Platform

Oversee broad-impact projects

Address platform architecture problems

Address platform architecture opportunities

Evaluate third-party products

Select open-source technologies

Define platform engineering best practices

Mature platform engineering best practices

Promote platform engineering best practices

Define reference architectures

Mature reference architectures

Promote reference architectures

Engage in architecture reviews

Advise on platform adoption

Advise on infrastructure patterns

Advise on service design

Work with cloud engineering

Work with security teams

Align architectural goals

Drive architectural governance

Conduct design reviews

Conduct federated review boards

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Cross-functional stakeholders; Cloud engineering teams; SRE teams; Security teams

Full Job Description

FactSet creates flexible, open data and software solutions for over 200,000 investment professionals worldwide, providing instant access to financial data and analytics that investors use to make crucial decisions. At FactSet, our values are the foundation of everything we do. They express how we act and operate, serve as a compass in our decision-making, and play a big role in how we treat each other, our clients, and our communities. We believe that the best ideas can come from anyone, anywhere, at any time, and that curiosity is the key to anticipating our clients’ needs and exceeding their expectations. The Platform Architecture team is responsible for unifying FactSet's developer infrastructure and core technologies — providing a coherent Internal Developer Platform and Platform as a Service to ensure engineering teams have access to the technology capabilities they need to provide world-class financial solutions to our clients in a way that is self-service, governed, and easy to consume. This team is responsible for identifying future evolutions and innovative revolutions of FactSet's core platform components in order to enable increased developer productivity, operational reliability, and to unlock new capabilities that accelerate delivery across all engineering teams or enable novel client-facing technologies. All team members, and in particular this leadership role, have the opportunity to be exposed to the entire FactSet technology stack and every engineering team across the organization as they seek to understand and contribute to key architectural needs. The current focus of the team is on designing and delivering FactSet's Internal Developer Platform as a Platform as a Service — a unified, self-service platform encompassing governed CI/CD, container orchestration, managed platform services (compute, storage, databases, messaging, caching), developer portal, and observability. The goal is to consolidate fragmented internal tooling into a coherent platfor

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