Platform Architecture Lead

🕒 July 2

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

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FactSet

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1982

💸 Finance

💳 Fintech

☁️ SaaS

Finance • Fintech • SaaS

FactSet is a global provider of integrated financial information and analytical applications for investment professionals. The company offers a wide range of solutions including asset management, risk analysis, investment research, and portfolio management tools. With a focus on utilizing artificial intelligence and data solutions, FactSet helps financial firms and investment professionals efficiently manage data, make informed decisions, and drive innovation. They leverage their technology to provide comprehensive insights and analytics across various asset classes. Over the past 40 years, FactSet has become a trusted partner for asset managers, consultants, hedge funds, and other financial institutions worldwide.

📋 Description

• Leading architecture decisions for the Internal Developer Platform and overseeing the broad-impact projects of the team. • Working on enterprise-wide initiatives to address platform architecture problems and opportunities — from developer experience through to production operations. • Evaluating and selecting third-party products and open-source technologies (platform orchestrators, developer portals, infrastructure-as-code tooling) that contribute to the overall platform landscape. • Defining, maturing, and promoting platform engineering best practices, reference architectures, and golden paths across the organization. • Engaging in architecture reviews and consulting with teams across the organization to advise on platform adoption, infrastructure patterns, and service design — informing the projects of the Platform Architecture team to meet open needs that should be centrally delivered. • Working with cloud engineering, SRE, and security teams to align architectural goals with reliability, cost efficiency, and compliance initiatives. • Driving architectural governance through ADRs, design reviews, and federated review boards that scale decision-making without creating bottlenecks.

🎯 Requirements

• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science (or equivalent field) • Extensive development and platform engineering experience with demonstrated performance as a highly technical contributor • A strong understanding of modern platform engineering, internal developer platforms, and DevOps practices at enterprise scale • Deep experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration — including cluster architecture, multi-tenancy, networking, and operational patterns at scale • Significant experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP), including infrastructure design, managed services, cost management, and landing zone architecture • Demonstrable insight into platform architectural directions that improve developer productivity, deployment velocity, and operational reliability • Breadth of knowledge across several of the following areas: CI/CD, infrastructure as code, observability, service mesh, networking, identity/security, and managed data services • Motivated and capable of helping to construct and influence a broad agenda to improve the platform capabilities and options available to engineering teams across the enterprise • Strong communication skills for effectively working with a wide variety of stakeholders — from application developers to engineering leadership — across different teams at FactSet.

🏖️ Benefits

• Professional development opportunities • Flexible working hours