Head of Platform Engineering

3 weeks ago


London, United Kingdom La Fosse Associates Full time

La Fosse Associates are currently partnered with a client who are looking to recruit a Head of Platform Engineering into their team.

This is a permanent position, salary range is £110,000-£130,000 and is based out of their London office. Generous benefits package included.

**Responsibilities**:

- Lead the development of the client's back end and Web platforms, providing engineering leadership to multiple scrum teams including teams at our systems integrator who are off-shore.
- Own the target state architectures for the entire back end and Web platforms hosted on AWS and coordinate their ongoing evolution with product owners, delivery partners and technology vendors.
- Collaborate extensively with Product, Development, Testing and IT Operations.
- Determine the platform strategies and roadmaps while maintaining knowledge of the strategic business plans along with technology vendors' product strategies and roadmaps
- Ensure that non-functional requirements such as scalability, security, availability, reliability and performance are addressed.
- Continuous improvement of coding standards and the DevOps pipelines
- Supporting the due diligence on new Technology suppliers and ongoing supplier reviews of key technology providers.
- Participating in and leading product evaluations, RFP's and POC's.
- Support the CTO in the management of the Technology budget
- Comfortable working in a DevOps environment comprising Jenkins, Sonar Cloud, BitBucket.
- Working with Agile collaboration tools: Figma, JIRA, Confluence, Microsoft Teams, Slack.



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