Fastmarkets is hiring a Cloud Engineering Lead

The Role The Cloud Engineering Lead is a senior technical leader and line manager within the Cloud Engineering function at Fastmarkets. Reporting to the Head of Cloud Engineering, this role combines meaningful hands-on technical delivery with full line management of 3-4 Cloud Engineers. The Lead owns their own technical workstream and maintains visibility across all workstreams running within Cloud Engineering — ensuring delivery health, quality, and team progress across the board. Outside the team, the Cloud Engineering Lead is the face of the function in planning forums, stakeholder conversations, and cross-functional peer discussions. This is a leadership role first. The right person here gets more satisfaction from watching their team deliver well than from landing a technical win on their own. Principal Accountabilities Team Leadership • Maintain clear visibility across all active workstreams in Cloud Engineering, proactively surfacing risks, blockers, and delivery concerns before they escalate. • Act as the first point of escalation for engineers across the team on technical and delivery decisions. • Set the standard for how the team works: technical quality, documentation, peer review, and engineering practice. • Foster an environment where engineers are supported, challenged, and actively developing. Line Management • Own the full line management of 3-4 Cloud Engineers, including regular 1-to-1s, personal development plans, and performance conversations. • Support your engineers’ career development with honesty and intention — including the conversations that are uncomfortable. • Actively mentor less experienced engineers, treating their growth as a deliberate part of your role, not a secondary task. Technical Delivery • Own and deliver your own technical workstream within Cloud Engineering alongside your leadership responsibilities. • Apply engineering judgement across the team’s work, maintaining consistency of approach and technical standards. • Stay technically current across the Azure and DevOps landscape. This role requires credibility with engineers, not just seniority. Stakeholder & Cross-Team Engagement • Represent Cloud Engineering in planning forums, architecture conversations, and cross-functional working groups. • Build and maintain effective working relationships with peer functions — SRE, Data Operations, InfoSec, and engineering teams across the business. • Communicate delivery status, risks, and decisions clearly to senior stakeholders.