Senior Cloud Engineer - Architecture

This is a role with a minimum of 4 days on-site. Must be able to commute to the Philadelphia office.

FS Investments is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer with architecture design and implementation experience to join our Technology team.

The successful candidate is expected to:

• Design, architect, and implement cloud-based solutions, services, and technologies.

• Assist in the design and development of data warehouse solutions to support large-scale data processing and analytics.

• Collaborate with data engineers and data scientists to design and optimize data pipelines and workflows.

• Develop and maintain automation scripts and tools using modern programming languages such as Python to streamline deployment and management tasks.

• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineering teams on best practices for cloud architecture, data engineering, and software development.

• Stay current with emerging cloud technologies, trends, and best practices, and evaluate their potential impact on our organization.

• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to optimize performance, reliability, and cost effectiveness of cloud infrastructure and services.

• Contribute to the development and maintenance of documentation, standards, and guidelines for cloud architecture and data management.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering or related field.

• 6+ years of experience in Enterprise Software Development, preferably within financial services.

• Proven technical leadership in delivering high performance, complex systems.

• Knowledge of capital markets, investment or wealth management preferred.

• Proven ability to investigate deep subject domains and make sense of them relatively quickly.

• Strong interpersonal skills to recruit and utilize busy but interested subject matter experts.

• Excellent understanding of data administration and management functions (collection, integration, analysis, distribution etc.).

• Experience with SQL, NoSQL, graph databases, document stores and other cloud-based data processing capabilities.

• Ability to identify opportunities to improve existing processes; knowledge of change management procedures.

• An analytical mindset with problem-solving skills; great attention to detail.

• Ability to manage time and maintain focus.

• Ability to work autonomously with minimal supervision.

• Ability to communicate effectively across all levels within organization.

Preferred experience:

• Experience with Salesforce platform and integration required.

• Experience with AWS technologies such as Lambda, Glue, and CloudFormation.

• Familiarity with Github Actions for CI / CD pipelines.

• Knowledge of DBT for data transformation and modeling.