Platform Technical Lead

What you'll do

• Provide expert technical oversight across backend services, integration flows, APIs, data models, and event‑driven platform components.
• Translate architectural blueprints and patterns into detailed engineering designs that squads can implement efficiently and securely.
• Develop, standardise, and govern coding practices, engineering design patterns, testing approaches, operational readiness, and automation frameworks.
• Lead complex technical investigations and decisions - balancing innovation, cost, performance, and delivery speed across multi‑market requirements.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, Delivery Leads, Architects, and Network teams to ensure technical feasibility, sequencing, and readiness of engineering deliverables.
• Drive technical excellence in CI/CD, observability, cloud operations, performance engineering, resilience, and secure‑by‑design practices.
• Ensure engineering delivery meets all non‑functional requirements (performance, security, reliability, scalability, operability).
• Provide senior technical input into partner and vendor evaluations, PoCs, and technology selection supporting platform strategy.
• Line Management - Experience leading and coaching senior engineers and multi‑disciplinary technical teams, building a culture of excellence, autonomy, and continuous improvement.
• Leadership - Ability to influence technical direction across multiple squads, guide high‑stakes design decisions, and drive alignment across Digital & IT, Networks, Security, and Product.
• Communication - Skilled at communicating complex technical concepts clearly to executives, architects, engineers, and non‑technical stakeholders, including decision‑making rationale.
• Vendor Management - Experience evaluating and guiding external partners or engineering suppliers to ensure high‑quality technical delivery aligned with platform standards.
• Agile - Deep experience working within modern product‑centric and agile environments, enabling autonomous squads, improving flow, and embedding iterative, incremental technical delivery practices at scale.