374 Platform Engineering Lead jobs in the United Kingdom
Platform Engineering Lead
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Platform Engineering Lead
Location: Bromley, UK
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Required Skills:
- 20+ years’ experience in building and maintaining applications with focus on performance, scalability, security, and reliability. li>7+ years’ experience overseeing enterprise-grade platform solutions < i>Experience in a highly Agile continuous integration and continuous deployment environment, preferably within a financial domain.
- Strong experience in Java/J2EE, Spring Boot, Mule, web Services, Kafka, SQL & PL/SQL (Oracle)
- Strong knowledge of XML, JSON and its usage within API and Microservice implementations at scale.
- Significant expertise in cloud-native deployment using OpenShift, Kubernetes or any one the container platform.
- Experience maintaining on-premises environments, containerized applications and hybrid cloud solutions.
- Experience using leading app servers and integration technologies like Mule ESB, Anypoint Platform, MQ, Kafka.
- Experience in Splunk, Dynatrace or AppDynamics (APM tools).
- Proven ability to leverage knowledge of infrastructure automation, DevOps, cloud technologies and platform architecture to build resilient, scalable and maintainable solutions
- Experience implementing best practices, optimizing performance, ensuring compliance with security standards, and providing leadership to the engineering team
- Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to delve in low level details with a technical audience and explain concepts at a high level to a non-technical audience.
Platform Engineering Lead
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Platform Engineering Lead
Location: Bromley, UK
Job Description:
Required Skills:
- 20+ years’ experience in building and maintaining applications with focus on performance, scalability, security, and reliability. li>7+ years’ experience overseeing enterprise-grade platform solutions < i>Experience in a highly Agile continuous integration and continuous deployment environment, preferably within a financial domain.
- Strong experience in Java/J2EE, Spring Boot, Mule, web Services, Kafka, SQL & PL/SQL (Oracle)
- Strong knowledge of XML, JSON and its usage within API and Microservice implementations at scale.
- Significant expertise in cloud-native deployment using OpenShift, Kubernetes or any one the container platform.
- Experience maintaining on-premises environments, containerized applications and hybrid cloud solutions.
- Experience using leading app servers and integration technologies like Mule ESB, Anypoint Platform, MQ, Kafka.
- Experience in Splunk, Dynatrace or AppDynamics (APM tools).
- Proven ability to leverage knowledge of infrastructure automation, DevOps, cloud technologies and platform architecture to build resilient, scalable and maintainable solutions
- Experience implementing best practices, optimizing performance, ensuring compliance with security standards, and providing leadership to the engineering team
- Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to delve in low level details with a technical audience and explain concepts at a high level to a non-technical audience.
Platform Engineering Lead
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Platform Engineering Lead Cloud Data Up to £150k + Bonus
Were supporting major UK leading organisation, who is going through a huge data & cloud transformation and looking to bring in a Platform Engineering Lead to help drive this journey!
This role will lead multiple agile teams building out a cutting-edge data mesh architecture on GCP, helping shape technical direction and scaling high-impact d.
Equities Quant Platform Engineering Lead - Python (Technology) - VP
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**Overview**
Citi is a world-leading global bank. We have approximately 200 million customer accounts and a presence in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions worldwide. We provide consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management. We enable clients to achieve their strategic financial objectives by providing them with cutting-edge ideas, best-in-class products and solutions, and unparalleled access to capital and liquidity.
**What We do / The Team**
**Are you a passionate and experienced engineering leader eager to build high-impact front office quant tools?** Citi's Equities Technology team is undergoing significant growth and investment, specifically within our high-priority systematic trading and analytics systems. We are seeking a hands-on Engineering Lead to drive the development of our next-generation quantitative development platform serving the Equities Cash, Derivatives, and Prime businesses.
This is a unique opportunity to make a significant impact as the platform enters its key growth phase. You will be instrumental in shaping critical capabilities including building an event-driven equity options back tester and AI-powered data agents delivering market intelligence via rich dashboards. If you thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment and have a passion for markets and quantitative research, we want to hear from you!
**Role Overview/What will you do:**
As the Engineering Lead, you'll guide the technical direction and implementation of the platform. This involves:
+ Championing engineering excellence through hands-on feature creation, rigorous code quality via pull request reviews, and by mentoring junior engineers to establish robust coding standards and guardrails.
+ Architecting scalable, secure re-usable components. You'll drive the design process, aligning with or challenging existing blueprints, seeking consensus from senior leads and stakeholders.
+ Staying up to date with open-source solutions and latest trends to accelerate business outcomes.
**Key Skills and Experience required**
+ Extensive background in delivering production-grade, data-centric applications for quantitative trading and analytics, with demonstrated expertise in:
+ The python data engineering stack (Polars, Parquet, FastAPI, Jupyter, Airflow, Streamlit, Ray)
+ High-performance data stores and query engines (Starburst, Snowflake)
+ Real-time streaming analytics technologies (Kafka, Flink)
+ Cloud container technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes)
+ Proven success in enhancing developer experience that reduces friction in coding, building and deploying APIs and client libraries.
+ Real-world application of generative AI prompt engineering and RAG pipelines.
+ Full-stack HTML5 web development skills.
**Desired Skills:**
+ Understanding of Equities Cash, D1 & Deriv market mechanics and products via sell-side trading projects
+ Familiarity with low-latency programming languages such as Rust or C+ **What we'll provide you**
By joining Citi London, you will not only be part of a business casual workplace with a hybrid working model (up to 2 days working at home per week), but also receive a competitive base salary (which is annually reviewed), and enjoy a whole host of additional benefits such as:
+ 27 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
+ A discretional annual performance related bonus
+ Private Medical Care & Life Insurance
+ Employee Assistance Program
+ Pension Plan
+ Paid Parental Leave
+ Special discounts for employees, family, and friends
+ Access to an array of learning and development resources
Visit our Global Benefits page to learn more. ( these benefits Citi is committed to ensuring our workplace is where everyone feels comfortable coming to work as their whole self, every day. We want the best talent around the world to be energized to join us, motivated to stay and empowered to thrive.
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Cloud Platform Lead
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Cloud Platform lead | County Durham| £70,(Apply online only) - 80,(Apply online only) per annum + Benefits
The Role
A rapidly growing, tech-led utilities business is on the lookout for a Cloud Platform Lead (Azure) to help shape its cloud infrastructure and lead a high-performing platform team. This is your chance to join a forward-thinking organisation that's redefining how technology supports essential services. You'll be joining a company that invests heavily in cloud innovation, automation, and DevSecOps best practices - and where your ideas will genuinely influence the tech strategy.
We’re looking for a strategic, collaborative engineering leader who can take ownership of the platform function and drive secure, scalable solutions across a growing Azure estate. You’ll manage a small, skilled team and work closely with senior tech and business stakeholders to shape and implement the wider technology roadmap.
Key Responsibilities
- Leading and mentoring a dedicated platform engineering team
- Setting the platform/cloud strategy in collaboration with Architects
- Designing secure and scalable cloud-native infrastructure (primarily Azure)
- Promoting an automation-first culture across CI/CD and platform ops
- Taking ownership of DevSecOps practices and cyber security leadership
- Managing suppliers and platform-related budgets
- Evaluating and introducing new tooling and technologies
- Contributing to critical releases and deployments (some out-of-hours work may be required)
Key Skills & Experience
- Proven experience leading teams and working cross-functionally with business & tech stakeholders
- Experience in DevOps / Cloud-native infrastructure engineering (Azure-focused)
- 3Experience in Cloud Security / DevSecOps, including tooling leadership
- Hands-on background with:
- Azure DevOps, Azure CAF, Well-Architected Frameworks
- Kubernetes (AKS), cloud networking, compute & storage
- Terraform, Bicep, YAML for Infrastructure as Code
- C#/.NET (Framework, Core, .NET 8)
- PowerShell, Python or Bash scripting
- Identity and Access Management, B2C or federated authentication
Please get in touch for further information on this opportunity.
Cloud Platform Lead
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Cloud Platform lead | County Durham| £70,(Apply online only) - 80,(Apply online only) per annum + Benefits
The Role
A rapidly growing, tech-led utilities business is on the lookout for a Cloud Platform Lead (Azure) to help shape its cloud infrastructure and lead a high-performing platform team. This is your chance to join a forward-thinking organisation that's redefining how technology supports essential services. You'll be joining a company that invests heavily in cloud innovation, automation, and DevSecOps best practices - and where your ideas will genuinely influence the tech strategy.
We’re looking for a strategic, collaborative engineering leader who can take ownership of the platform function and drive secure, scalable solutions across a growing Azure estate. You’ll manage a small, skilled team and work closely with senior tech and business stakeholders to shape and implement the wider technology roadmap.
Key Responsibilities
- Leading and mentoring a dedicated platform engineering team
- Setting the platform/cloud strategy in collaboration with Architects
- Designing secure and scalable cloud-native infrastructure (primarily Azure)
- Promoting an automation-first culture across CI/CD and platform ops
- Taking ownership of DevSecOps practices and cyber security leadership
- Managing suppliers and platform-related budgets
- Evaluating and introducing new tooling and technologies
- Contributing to critical releases and deployments (some out-of-hours work may be required)
Key Skills & Experience
- Proven experience leading teams and working cross-functionally with business & tech stakeholders
- Experience in DevOps / Cloud-native infrastructure engineering (Azure-focused)
- 3Experience in Cloud Security / DevSecOps, including tooling leadership
- Hands-on background with:
- Azure DevOps, Azure CAF, Well-Architected Frameworks
- Kubernetes (AKS), cloud networking, compute & storage
- Terraform, Bicep, YAML for Infrastructure as Code
- C#/.NET (Framework, Core, .NET 8)
- PowerShell, Python or Bash scripting
- Identity and Access Management, B2C or federated authentication
Please get in touch for further information on this opportunity.
Cloud Platform Product Manager
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My client is looking for an experienced and strategic Cloud Platform Product Manager to lead the evolution of their next-generation cloud-based product suite. This role is key to shaping the future of their platform, supporting its transition from a fully on-premise solution to a flexible, cloud-first deployment model.
You’ll take ownership of the full product lifecycle—from market and customer research through to launch and end-of-life planning—working closely with engineering, marketing, sales, and customer support teams. A deep understanding of Microsoft Azure and cloud-native technologies is essential to succeed in this role.
Key Responsibilities- Define and manage the cloud product roadmap aligned with customer needs and business objectives li>Conduct detailed market research to identify opportunities and stay ahead of industry trends
- Oversee end-to-end product development, from concept through to release
- Act as a subject matter expert on the platform, providing insights to internal and external stakeholders
- Use customer feedback and data analytics to drive continuous improvement
- Champion innovation—particularly around AI deployment and seamless cloud/on-prem integration < i>Leverage Azure’s full capabilities to enhance product performance and efficiency < i>Ensure robust cyber-security measures and compliance with regional cloud regulations
- Contribute to go-to-market planning, technical documentation, and sales enablement materials
- Proven experience delivering cloud-based solutions from ideation to launch
- Strong knowledge of Microsoft Azure services, architecture, and optimisation
- Familiarity with modern cloud-native technologies (e.g., containers, Kubernetes, serverless)
- Skilled in agile software development; experience with Azure DevOps and sprint planning
- Excellent communication, problem-solving, and strategic thinking skills
- Ability to work across departments and manage multiple priorities effectively
- Flexible working
- Car Allowance
- Healthcare
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Cloud Platform Product Manager
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My client is looking for an experienced and strategic Cloud Platform Product Manager to lead the evolution of their next-generation cloud-based product suite. This role is key to shaping the future of their platform, supporting its transition from a fully on-premise solution to a flexible, cloud-first deployment model.
You’ll take ownership of the full product lifecycle—from market and customer research through to launch and end-of-life planning—working closely with engineering, marketing, sales, and customer support teams. A deep understanding of Microsoft Azure and cloud-native technologies is essential to succeed in this role.
Key Responsibilities- Define and manage the cloud product roadmap aligned with customer needs and business objectives li>Conduct detailed market research to identify opportunities and stay ahead of industry trends
- Oversee end-to-end product development, from concept through to release
- Act as a subject matter expert on the platform, providing insights to internal and external stakeholders
- Use customer feedback and data analytics to drive continuous improvement
- Champion innovation—particularly around AI deployment and seamless cloud/on-prem integration < i>Leverage Azure’s full capabilities to enhance product performance and efficiency < i>Ensure robust cyber-security measures and compliance with regional cloud regulations
- Contribute to go-to-market planning, technical documentation, and sales enablement materials
- Proven experience delivering cloud-based solutions from ideation to launch
- Strong knowledge of Microsoft Azure services, architecture, and optimisation
- Familiarity with modern cloud-native technologies (e.g., containers, Kubernetes, serverless)
- Skilled in agile software development; experience with Azure DevOps and sprint planning
- Excellent communication, problem-solving, and strategic thinking skills
- Ability to work across departments and manage multiple priorities effectively
- Flexible working
- Car Allowance
- Healthcare
Cloud Platform Product Manager
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My client is looking for an experienced and strategic Cloud Platform Product Manager to lead the evolution of their next-generation cloud-based product suite. This role is key to shaping the future of their platform, supporting its transition from a fully on-premise solution to a flexible, cloud-first deployment model.
Youll take ownership of the full product lifecycle.
Lead Software Engineer - Cloud Platform
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Responsibilities:
- Lead the design, development, and deployment of cloud-native applications.
- Architect scalable and resilient microservices-based solutions.
- Mentor and guide a team of software engineers.
- Ensure code quality, performance, and security of the cloud platform.
- Collaborate with product management on feature roadmaps and technical strategy.
- Implement and optimize CI/CD pipelines for efficient software delivery.
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues.
- Stay abreast of emerging cloud technologies and development best practices.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- Minimum of 7 years of experience in software development, with at least 2 years in a lead or senior role.
- Extensive experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
- Proficiency in programming languages such as Java, Python, or Go.
- Strong understanding of microservices architecture and design patterns.
- Experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and CI/CD tools.
- Excellent leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills.
- Proven ability to mentor and lead technical teams.