Full time Permanent Associate

Posted 13 Oct 2026

Description

Cloud Solutions Architect

FMP stands at the forefront of the Fintech revolution, redefining how financial market data is accessed and utilized. As a premier Data as a Service (DaaS) provider, we deliver comprehensive financial market data and analytics solutions to businesses, investors, and developers.

Our mission is to make institutional-grade financial information more accessible, enabling our clients to build innovative applications, models, tools, and financial products using accurate and reliable data.

We are a fast-moving, technology-driven company that values initiative, adaptability, continuous learning, and people who are willing to take ownership and contribute to the continued growth of our platform.

About the Role

We are looking for a Cloud Solutions Architect to design, build, and optimize the cloud infrastructure that powers FMP's financial data platform and services.

This role will be responsible for developing scalable, secure, reliable, and cost-effective cloud architectures that support our APIs, data processing systems, applications, and growing customer base. The successful candidate will combine strong architectural expertise with hands-on technical execution, helping improve infrastructure performance, automate deployments, strengthen security, and support the company's continued expansion.

Working closely with engineering, development, and data teams, the Cloud Solutions Architect will evaluate existing systems, identify opportunities for improvement, establish technical best practices, and guide infrastructure decisions that align with FMP's business and technology objectives.





This is an opportunity for an experienced cloud professional who enjoys solving complex technical challenges, improving system reliability, and building infrastructure that supports a growing fintech and financial data business.

Key Responsibilities

- Design and implement scalable, reliable, and secure cloud architectures to support FMP's APIs, applications, databases, and data-intensive workloads.
- Evaluate existing infrastructure and recommend improvements to architecture, performance, availability, and scalability.
- Develop cloud strategies and infrastructure roadmaps aligned with business growth and technical requirements.
- Establish architectural standards and best practices for cloud environments, system integration, and infrastructure management.
- Evaluate cloud services and technologies to identify opportunities to improve performance, reliability, and operational efficiency.

Automation & Deployment

- Design and maintain infrastructure automation using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools.
- Improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes to support reliable, repeatable, and efficient releases.
- Support containerization and orchestration technologies where appropriate.
- Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, monitoring, and routine operational tasks.




- Collaborate with engineering teams to improve development workflows and infrastructure reliability.

Security, Reliability & Performance

- Implement and maintain cloud security best practices, including identity and access management, network security, encryption, and secrets management.
- Establish monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability practices to identify and resolve infrastructure issues.
- Develop and maintain disaster recovery, backup, business continuity, and high-availability strategies.
- Identify infrastructure risks and vulnerabilities and implement appropriate mitigation measures.
- Monitor system performance and availability, troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues, and support incident resolution.

Cost Optimization & Operational Excellence

- Monitor cloud usage, resource allocation, and infrastructure costs to identify opportunities for optimization.
- Improve resource utilization while maintaining required performance, availability, and reliability.
- Establish processes for cloud governance, configuration management, and infrastructure documentation.
- Evaluate infrastructure tools and services to improve operational efficiency and reduce unnecessary complexity.
- Provide technical guidance and support to engineering and development teams on cloud architecture and infrastructure best practices.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

- Work closely with engineering, development, and data teams to understand technical requirements and design appropriate infrastructure solutions.
- Translate business and technical requirements into practical, scalable architectural designs.
- Provide technical leadership on infrastructure projects, architectural decisions, and tech

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