Platform Architecture Lead

Responsibilities

• 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.

• 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 Dev Ops 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 Fact Set.