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Platform Engineer

• Lead, coach and develop platform and enablement teams (frontend, backend, DevOps/SRE)
• Create a safe, inclusive and high-performing team environment
• Define and maintain platform team charters and collaboration boundaries
• Own the internal developer platform strategy (tooling, golden paths, self-service)
• Partner with engineering leadership on architecture, strategy and roadmap
• Drive platform standards (APIs, observability, reliability patterns)
• Support capacity planning and reliability targets (SLOs/SLIs)
• Improve developer experience and productivity metrics
• Embed operational thinking across software engineering teams
• Partner with Security & Privacy on controls and compliance (ISO 27001, ST4S, GDPR)
• Champion engineering excellence across the wider team
• Manage relationships with cloud and platform vendors
• Optimise cloud usage and strengthen FinOps practices
• Represent platform engineering in governance and architecture forums

Head of Platform Engineering