Lead Platform Engineer (Data)
Lead Platform Engineer (Data)
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Job Description
- Hybrid working: we spend 2 days together a week with this role based in our Manchester Spinningfields office.
As a Lead Platform Engineer youll shape the backbone of our engineering ecosystemdesigning and evolving the platforms that power our products at scale. Youll lead technical strategy champion best practices and enable teams to deliver faster safer and smarter. This is a hands-on leadership role where youll influence architecture mentor engineers and drive innovation in cloud infrastructure automation and developer experience.
Youll guide the evolution of our database products ensuring secure performant and developer-friendly data services while leading the team through design delivery and operational excellence.
Our Technology
Our platform underpins critically important services designed for security scalability and developer efficiency. We leverage AWS container orchestration (ECS) and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform CDK) to deliver resilient automated environments. Observability is powered by DataDog and were embracing AI-driven tooling (GitHub Copilot ChatGPT) to accelerate delivery and improve quality. Youll help us evolve this ecosystem to support rapid growth and innovation.
How youllspendyour day:
- Lead & Inspire: Set technical direction mentor engineers and foster a culture of excellence.
- Data Excellence:Champion best practices in database design enable self-serve tools for developers and drive smart scalable data decisions across the Group.
- Design & Deliver: Architect and implement scalable secure platform solutions that empower product teams.
- Innovate & Improve: Drive continuous improvement in automation observability and developer experience.
- Collaborate & Influence: Partner with Product Security and Engineering leaders to align platform strategy with business goals.
Whatvalueyoull bring to the role:
- Proven experience leading platform or infrastructure engineering teams in a cloud-native environment with specific experience in data engineering.
- Deep expertise in AWS infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/CDK) and container orchestration.
- Strong understanding of database technologies (MongoDB relational DBs) and data modelling.
- Passion for automation observability and improving developer experience.
- Comfortable leveraging AI tools to accelerate delivery and improve quality.
- Excellent communicator who can influence technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Our interview process:
- A call with one of our Talent Acquisition Team
- An interview consisting of Technical Questions a System Design Task and Behavioural Questions focused on leadership and working with others.
What rewards are on offer:
- Up to 30 holidays bank holidays
- Pension up to 6% employer contribution
- Bonus scheme
- Enhanced shared parental leave - 6 months paid for both parents
- Digital Doctor on demand
- Work from anywhere scheme 2 weeks per year
- Financial coaching
- Mental health platform access
Why us
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process to perform crucial job functions and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
Were an inclusive anti-racist and equal opportunity employer that values diversity. This means we respect and embrace differences in gender identity race ethnic origin sexual expression and orientation religion and faith age marital status disability neurodiversity social background education and way of thinking. Were a place where you can be you.
Our customers and users come from different backgrounds as do our colleagues. We welcome applications from everyone and particularly encourage women and Black Asian and ethnic minority candidates to apply as were actively building representation thats more closely reflective of the communities we serve. Our appointments are made on merit following a robust and objective assessment process and the candidate with the highest score is offered the role. If youre passionate about our purpose of helping households save money and excited about what you could accomplish here wed love to hear from you.
We understand that job adverts only say so much and youre likely to have a lot of questions. If youd like to know anything before applying such as more on the location salary our parental leave policy etc please just let us know and well be happy to help. You can contact the recruiter for this role Tom at
Employment Type
Full-Time
