[Hiring] Head of Platform Engineering @Allica Bank

Apr 14, 2025 - Allica Bank is hiring a remote Head of Platform Engineering. 💸 Salary: unspecified. 📍Location: UK.

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Role Description

As Head of Platform Engineering, you will be responsible for architecting, building, and scaling the core technical platform that powers our products. In close partnership with product, security, and engineering teams, you’ll define and execute our platform roadmap to ensure it meets the evolving needs of the organisation operating in a highly regulated environment. You will shape the direction of our cloud infrastructure, drive developer productivity, and ensure best-in-class reliability and security standards - helping us maintain our edge in a competitive market.

Develop and champion vision for the platform’s architecture, ensuring scalability, high availability and rapid feature development.
Align platform goals with broader business objectives, collaborate with product engineering squads to integrate strategic features into our core services.
Lead the architecture design, implementation of workloads, and maintenance of the cloud platform (Azure/GCP), ensuring the infrastructure securely and efficiently deploys our banking applications.
Establish robust monitoring, alerting and incident management processes to uphold SLAs and SLOs, proactively identifying and resolving potential issues.
Lead, mentor and grow a high-performing Platform Engineering team, attracting and retaining the top-tier talent and nurturing skill development.
Implement the practices that support knowledge sharing, and continuous learning, fostering a culture of engineering excellence.
Ensure the platform adheres to relevant regulatory/security standards, integrating industry best practices.
Partner with the security teams to proactively identify, mitigate and resolve vulnerabilities or threats.
Collaborate with product, and other technology functions to define platform requirements and deliver mission-critical functionality.
Communicate platform updates to executive leadership and other stakeholders.
Optimise cloud resource usage and negotiate vendor relationships to maintain a cost-effective yet robust infrastructure.

Qualifications

Proven track record of designing and building secure and reliable systems in cloud environments (GCP, or Azure).
Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code and technologies like Kubernetes, Terraform, Azure Devops, etc.
Experience managing a team of platform engineers in a fast-paced agile environment.
Proven ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders and communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
Comfortable presenting to executive leadership and stakeholders, translating technical strategies into business value.
Adept at balancing short-term priorities with long-term platform vision, ensuring the business can innovate quickly while maintaining operational excellence.
Demonstrated success in setting measurable OKRs and delivering results in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
Experience in regulated industries or financial services, with a deep understanding of UK/EU regulatory and compliance frameworks (FCA, PSD2, GDPR).

Benefits

Full onboarding support and continued development opportunities
Options for flexible working
Regular social activities
Pension contributions
Discretionary bonus scheme
Private health cover
Life assurance
Family friendly policies including enhanced Maternity & Paternity leave

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Head of Platform Engineering @Allica Bank

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Job Type full-time	Posted Apr 14, 2025

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