Platform Architecture Lead

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 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
• (Desirable) Exceptional ability to dive into new systems and designs to quickly understand the structure and provide meaningful evaluation, guidance, and identification of alternatives
• (Desirable) Experience designing multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud platform strategies for large engineering organizations
• (Desirable) Experience with CI/CD platform design (Jenkins, Git Hub Actions, ArgoCD, Git Ops workflows) and deployment governance
• (Desirable) Familiarity with developer portals and service catalogs (Backstage or equivalent)
• (Desirable) Experience with infrastructure-as-code and platform orchestration (Terraform, Crossplane, Helm)
• (Desirable) Understanding of zero-trust security models, identity frameworks (SPIFFE/SPIRE, OAuth2/JWT), and compliance automation
• (Desirable) Experience operating in a regulated financial services environment

• The Platform Architecture team is responsible for unifying Fact Set'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 Fact Set'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 Fact Set 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 Fact Set'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 platform experience and expand managed service offerings in a way that balances exceptional developer experience with the governance and compliance requirements of a regulated financial services firm
• The Platform Architect role involves guiding the team towards the top priority platform initiatives at Fact Set, utilizing a broad understanding of the internal technology landscape, developer needs, and current industry practices, as well as contributing to those projects directly
• The successful candidate will ensure productive collaboration with a broad set of internal stakeholders across the SBUs to keep…