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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Platform Architecture Lead - **Company:** FactSet Research Systems Inc. - **Location:** UK (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** FactSet, Amazon Web Services, Computing Platforms, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Engineering, Continuous Integration, Data as a Services, DevOps, Github, OAuth, Octopus Deploy, Zero Trust Network Access, Service Design, Istio, Multi-Cloud, HybridCloud, Git Flow, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Terraform, Jenkins - **Published:** June 5, 2026 - **Apply:** https://uk.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=0ed6b9f147ca0cd6 ## About the Role Do you have experience in Terraform?, Do you have a Master's degree?, * 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. Desired: * Exceptional ability to dive into new systems and designs to quickly understand the structure and provide meaningful evaluation, guidance, and identification of alternatives. * Experience designing multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud platform strategies for large engineering organizations. * Experience with CI/CD platform design (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, GitOps workflows) and deployment governance. * Familiarity with developer portals and service catalogs (Backstage or equivalent). * Experience with infrastructure-as-code and platform orchestration (Terraform, Crossplane, Helm). * Understanding of zero-trust security models, identity frameworks (SPIFFE/SPIRE, OAuth2/JWT), and compliance automation. * Experience operating in a regulated financial services environment. ## 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. ## Related Videos - [Innovating Developer Tools with AI: Insights from GitHub Next](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1268-innovating-developer-tools-with-ai-insights-from-github-next) - [Rate-limiting using eBPF and Istio: How to protect your SaaS customers from themselves](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100220-rate-limiting-using-ebpf-and-istio-how-to-protect-your-saas-customers-from-themselves) - [Keeping applications secure by evolving OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100152-keeping-applications-secure-by-evolving-oauth-2-0-and-openid-connect) - [Empowering Thousands of Developers: Our Journey to an Internal Developer Platform](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1519-empowering-thousands-of-developers-our-journey-to-an-internal-developer-platform) - [Get started with securing your cloud-native Java microservices applications](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/123-get-started-with-securing-your-cloud-native-java-microservices-applications) - [Bringing AI Model Testing and Prompt Management to Your Codebase with GitHub Models](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1536-bringing-ai-model-testing-and-prompt-management-to-your-codebase-with-github-models) ## Related Articles - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [Best Companies to work for in London: Top 25 Companies in 2023](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/187-best-companies-to-work-for-in-london-top-25-companies-in-2023) - [How Much FAANG Companies Actually Pay Software Engineers in 2025](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/230-how-much-faang-companies-actually-pay-software-engineers-in-2025) - [The Best X (Twitter) Accounts for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/294-the-best-x-twitter-accounts-for-developers) - [Résumé-Driven Development: How IT trends affect the job market for software developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/59-resume-driven-development-how-it-trends-affect-the-job-market-for-software-developers) - [Fully Remote Software Engineer Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/447-fully-remote-software-engineer-jobs)