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.