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 Role:
As the Lead Site Reliability Principal Architect, you will head a small team of Infrastructure & DevOps engineers. You’ll combine your technical expertise with leadership skills to ensure our systems are robust, observable, and ready to scale. You will balance hands-on engineering with mentorship, shaping the roadmap for a modern, resilient, and efficient infrastructure.
Responsibilities:
Lead a team of SRE/Infrastructure engineers and manage the team’s roadmap
Design and implement systems for high availability, performance, and scalability.
Own and improve the end-to-end architecture of our infrastructure stack (cloud, CI/CD, configuration management, container orchestration, etc.).
Drive best practices for monitoring, alerting, logging, and observability; enable deep system visibility and actionable insight.
Champion a culture of operational excellence, incident response, and blameless postmortems.
Collaborate with other engineers on system architecture, deployments, and operational readiness.
Identify and eliminate single points of failure; work proactively on capacity planning and disaster recovery strategies.
Drive automation efforts for deployment, scaling, and infrastructure management.
Bachelors degree in computer science or relevant.
About You:
Proven experience leading or mentoring DevOps/SRE engineers
Strong experience with AWS
Deep knowledge in infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.), config management (Ansible, Chef, Puppet), and container orchestration (Kubernetes, ECS, etc.).
Hands-on experience with modern observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog, etc.).
Track record of implementing high-availability and disaster recovery systems.
Effective communicator, able to work cross-functionally and inspire operational excellence.
The budgeted salary range for this position in the states of Connecticut and New York is $220,000.00 - 265,000.00
Company Overview:
FactSet (NYSE:FDS | NASDAQ:FDS) helps the financial community to see more, think bigger, and work better. Our digital platform and enterprise solutions deliver financial data, analytics, and open technology to more than 8,200 global clients, including over 200,000 individual users. Clients across the buy-side and sell-side, as well as wealth managers, private equity firms, and corporations, achieve more every day with our comprehensive and connected content, flexible next-generation workflow solutions, and client-centric specialized support. As a member of the S&P 500, we are committed to sustainable growth and have been recognized among the Best Places to Work in 2023 by Glassdoor as a Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Award winner. Learn more at www.factset.com and follow us on X and LinkedIn.
At FactSet, we celebrate difference of thought, experience, and perspective. Qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law. FactSet participates in E-Verify
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is positioned as comprehensive, spanning medical, dental/vision in some descriptions, and life and disability insurance. Company-wide wellness days and region-specific add-ons (e.g., Vitality PMI, Bupa dental, Health Shield cashback) further reinforce a strong health-and-wellbeing offering.
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Retirement Support — Retirement savings support is consistently included as part of the core package through retirement savings plans. The presence of these programs is framed as a meaningful component of total rewards beyond base salary.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — An employee stock purchase program is highlighted as a standard part of the total rewards package. This provides a pathway to share ownership alongside cash compensation.
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FactSet creates flexible, open data and software solutions for tens of thousands of investment professionals around the world, providing instant access to financial data and analytics that investors use to make crucial decisions. For 40 years, through market changes and technological progress, our focus has always been to provide exceptional client service. From more than 60 offices in 23 countries, we’re all working together toward the goal of creating value for our clients, and we’re proud that 95% of asset managers who use FactSet continue to use FactSet, year after year. As big as we grow, as far as we reach, and as successful as we become, we stay connected to our clients and to each other.
