Delivery Lead – Platform Engineering
Allwyn Lottery Solutions
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Marousi • Greece
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About the role
- 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.
Requirements
- 5+ years’ experience driving delivery within complex software or infrastructure environments.
- Proven experience delivering large-scale infrastructure or platform initiatives in cloud-native environments.
- An understanding of modern infrastructure concepts, including Kubernetes, containers, networking, and distributed systems.
- Experience working with or alongside SRE, Platform Engineering, or Infrastructure teams.
- Deep knowledge of agile delivery principles, with the pragmatism to adapt them for platform and SRE contexts.
- Demonstrated ability to manage risks, resolve blockers early, and maintain delivery momentum in complex environments.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to align Product, Engineering, and wider business teams.
- Confident managing and communicating delivery metrics, ensuring clarity and visibility across all levels.
- Comfortable operating in dynamic, fast-paced environments with shifting priorities and cross-team dependencies.
- Highly organised, detail-oriented, and proactive - able to anticipate challenges and take action early.
- Skilled at fostering a positive team culture grounded in collaboration, transparency, and continuous improvement.
- Excellent communication skills in English (verbal and written), with the ability to present confidently in meetings, structure delivery updates effectively, and articulate key messages in slide decks and written reports - balancing brevity with the right level of detail.
- Curious, adaptable, and committed to learning and growth.
- A collaborative mindset and a clear passion for team success.
Benefits
- A dynamic team of experts who’ll support your growth and share your ambition
- A diverse, international environment full of opportunity and challenge
- A comprehensive onboarding experience to set you up for success
- Competitive salary with a performance-based bonus
- Health and life insurance for you and your family
- Well-being allowance and monthly lunch allowance
- Extensive leave policy to support work-life balance
- Unlimited training resources and tools to support your development
- 360° feedback framework to help you grow your impact
- Employee Assistance Programme with professional counselling support
- Flexible working options (fully remote or hybrid)
- A modern tech setup including Apple equipment and best-in-class tools
- A stable, enjoyable working environment where delivery is valued
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
Kubernetescloud infrastructurecontainer orchestrationload balancingCI/CD pipelinesobservabilityagile delivery principlesrisk managementdelivery metricsinfrastructure concepts
Soft Skills
stakeholder managementcommunication skillsteam cultureproactivedetail-orientedcollaborationadaptabilitycuriosityleadershiporganisational skills