Lead Platform Quality Architect
StarCompliance
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: York • United Kingdom
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About the role
- Define, architect, and execute StarCompliance’s centralised Platform Quality Engineering strategy for the enterprise SaaS platform.
- Act as the technical authority for platform-level quality, including integration testing, CI/CD quality gates, performance assurance, and release governance.
- Build and lead a centralised team of Platform Quality Engineers, setting a high technical bar through hands-on involvement in architecture, automation frameworks, and complex quality scenarios.
- Design and maintain shared quality architecture and automation frameworks supporting cross-product integration and core enterprise user journeys.
- Own the Staging environment as the primary platform integration and validation layer, defining enterprise quality gates, release readiness signals, and go/no-go criteria.
- Embed automated quality controls and feedback loops directly into CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps).
- Define and execute the enterprise performance and scalability testing strategy in partnership with Architecture and Platform teams.
- Establish platform-level quality standards and guardrails for product teams, ensuring integration safety and release confidence while product teams retain feature-level quality ownership.
- Monitor and analyse quality metrics and trends across the platform, using data to identify systemic risks and drive continuous improvement.
- Lead the structured adoption of AI-assisted Quality Engineering practices, including AI-supported test generation, intelligent failure analysis, flake detection, performance anomaly identification, and risk-based test prioritisation.
- Define architectural guardrails for safe and compliant use of AI within Quality Engineering workflows.
- Represent Platform Quality Engineering in architecture forums and selected client, pre-sales, and audit engagements, articulating StarCompliance’s quality, performance, and AI-enabled assurance posture with technical credibility.
Requirements
- Extensive hands-on technical experience in Quality Engineering, test architecture, or software engineering roles within complex SaaS platforms.
- Proven experience defining and executing Quality Engineering strategy and architecture at platform scale.
- Demonstrated experience leading centralised or platform-level Quality Engineering functions supporting multiple autonomous product teams.
- Strong background in distributed systems, microservices, APIs, and enterprise integration patterns.
- Deep, practical experience embedding quality controls into CI/CD pipelines and release workflows (Azure DevOps preferred).
- Strong coding skills in one or more of C#, TypeScript, or Python, with experience building and maintaining automation frameworks (Playwright experience highly beneficial).
- Proven experience designing and executing performance and scalability testing for enterprise SaaS platforms.
- Demonstrated, hands-on experience applying AI-assisted engineering tools to achieve measurable improvements in automation coverage, defect detection, test reliability, or performance insight.
- Working understanding of modern AI concepts (e.g., large language models, prompt engineering, model-assisted analysis, data sensitivity considerations) sufficient to design safe and scalable AI-enabled quality workflows.
- Ability to define governance and guardrails for AI usage in regulated environments.
- Ability to operate as a credible technical peer to senior engineers, architects, and platform leads.
- Strong communication and influencing skills, with experience operating in cross-functional and client-facing contexts.
Benefits
- Equal Opportunity Employer Statement
- Pre-employment screening
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Hard Skills & Tools
Quality Engineeringtest architecturesoftware engineeringCI/CD pipelinesperformance testingscalability testingautomation frameworksC#TypeScriptPython
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationinfluencingcross-functional collaborationtechnical credibility