Lead Software Engineer (Data Engineering)

Overview

Individual contributor (non-management) lead software engineer role anchoring technical direction for two strategic PRD platforms (UCF and FDF) in the Commercial & Market Distribution Engineering organization, and building a high-performing engineering team in India.

What you'll do

• Anchor the technical direction for the UCF and FDF platforms that directly impact how clients consume FactSet data.
• Build a high-performing team in India from the ground up, defining the bar, the practices, and the culture.
• 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 as a player-coach.
• Participate in hiring: define rubrics, run interview loops, and calibrate the bar across SE3 and SE2 hires.
• Represent the India team in cross-org architectural forums and steering committees.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering or related field, or equivalent education.
• 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 and 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, such as plugin architectures, configuration-driven systems, and multi-tenant design.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Exceptional people skills: 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.

Nice to have

• 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.

Details

• Location: Hyderabad, India (DVS, SEZ-1 – Orion B4; FL 7, 8, 9, 11; Hyderabad - Divyasree 3).
• Individual contributor (non-management) role.