Allwyn Lottery Solutions

Platform Engineer

• Lead and coordinate delivery across 4 cross-functional platform engineering teams, ensuring alignment to strategic platform roadmaps and organisational priorities.
• Drive execution of large-scale infrastructure and reliability initiatives (e.g. platform migrations, Kubernetes upgrades, networking changes, resilience improvements).
• Facilitate agile ceremonies (planning, stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives) promotes meaningful outcomes rather than process for process’ sake.
• Maintain accurate, transparent delivery plans and dashboards, reflecting real progress, risks, and operational impact.
• Track delivery across scope, timelines, dependencies, and operational risk, raising issues early and driving resolution.
• Act as a technically credible delivery partner to Platform Engineers and SREs, able to engage confidently on topics such as Kubernetes and container orchestration, Cloud infrastructure, Load balancing, CI/CD pipelines, Observability, and reliability concepts.
• Understand the operational impact of change in production systems and help teams plan delivery in a way that minimises risk and downtime.
• Support delivery of work that spans multiple teams, services, and layers of the stack, often with non-linear dependencies.
• Work with Product and Engineering to ensure delivery readiness - valid PRDs, tech designs, assets, and capacity in place before work begins.
• Proactively identify and manage risks, blockers, and cross-team dependencies, escalating early and coordinating mitigation.
• Monitor team velocity and ensure delivery plans remain realistic and aligned to team capacity.
• Act as the delivery point of contact for your teams - building trusted relationships with team members and leadership.
• Provide clear, timely updates on delivery progress, risks, and decisions - ensuring visibility at every level.
• Champion a culture of continuous improvement - challenging the status quo and ensuring retro outcomes are actioned.

Delivery Lead – Platform Engineering