Lead Software Engineer (Data Engineering)

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 rolein 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 anticipatingour clients’ needs and exceeding their expectations.

What You'll Do

• Anchor the technical direction for two strategic PRD platforms (UCF + FDF) that directly impact how clients consume FactSet data.
• Build a high-performing team in India from the ground up - define the bar, the practices, and the culture.
• High visibility with senior engineering and product leadership across Commercial & Market Distribution Engineering.
• Solve real problems at scale: stability, cost efficiency, custom feature integration, and forward-looking system design.
• Influence both architecture and hiring strategy as we scale the team.
• Clear growth path to manage a larger team as the India hub expands - this role is the foundation for a future engineering manager or senior technical leadership track.
• Own and evolve the architecture of UCF and FDF, with a focus on scalability, stability, and cost-effective delivery.
• Design integration patterns that allow custom client features to be delivered at scale without proliferating one-off code paths.
• Partner with engineering leaders in London and the US to align on shared platform direction and ownership boundaries.
• Drive technical decisions around cloud delivery (Snowflake, S3, columnar formats), API design, and data pipeline modernization.
• Contribute hands-on to critical components - this is a player-coach role, not pure management.
• Participate in hiring: define rubrics, run interview loops, calibrate bar across SE3 and SE2 hires.
• Represent the India team in cross-org architectural forums and steering committees.

What We're Looking For

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering or related field, or equivalent education.
• Please note that this is an individual contributor (non-management) role.
• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including time in a technical lead or senior IC role.
• Deep system design and architectural judgment. Hands-on proficiency in Python and/or C#, with the ability to evaluate the right tool for the job across other modern stacks.
• Hands-on experience with ETL/ELT systems, data pipeline orchestration tools (Apache Airflow, Prefect, Dagster, or similar)
• Demonstrated experience architecting and operating production data platforms or distribution systems at scale.
• Strong system design fundamentals: distributed systems, API design, data pipelines, and storage trade-offs.
• Experience collaborating across geographies (US/UK time zones).
• Cloud-native data delivery experience (Snowflake, AWS S3, parquet, streaming, or equivalent).
• Strong on cost-efficiency and performance optimization at the infrastructure layer (warehouse tuning, throughput, scaling strategies).
• Proven ability to design extensible platforms - plugin architectures, configuration-driven systems, multi-tenant design.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; can write a design doc a London architect respects and an India SE2 can execute against.
• Exceptional people skills - this is a defining requirement, not a nice-to-have. We are looking for someone who genuinely enjoys growing engineers, navigates conflict with empathy, builds trust with stakeholders across geographies, and leads through influence rather than authority. Demonstrated success mentoring engineers, hiring well, and managing relationships across senior leadership and peer teams is essential.
• Experience in financial data, market data, or pricing/reference data domains.
• Familiarity with FactSet products or competing data vendor platforms.
• Experience modernizing legacy platforms onto cloud-native stacks.
• Public speaking, blogs, or open-source contributions in relevant areas.

What's In It For You

At FactSet, our people are our greatest asset, and our culture is our biggest competitive advantage. Being a FactSetter means:

• The opportunity to join an S&P 500 company with over 45 years of sustainable growth, powered by the entrepreneurial spirit of a start-up.
• Support for your total well-being. This includes health, life, and disability insurance, as well as retirement savings plans and a discounted employee stock purchase program, plus paid time off for holidays, family leave, and company-wide wellness days.
• Flexible work accommodations. We value work/life harmony and offer our employees a range of accommodations to help them achieve success both at work and in their personal lives.
• A global community dedicated to volunteerism and sustainability, where collaboration is always encouraged, and individuality drives solutions.
• Career progression planning with dedicated time each month for learning and development.
• Business Resource Groups open to all employees that serve as a catalyst for connection, growth, and belonging.

Salary is just one component of our compensation package and is based on several factors, including but not limited to education, work experience, and certifications.

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.

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