Engineering Platform Technical Lead

We're looking for a Technical Team Lead to join our Engineering Platforms & Practice group, leading the strategy, design, and delivery of next-generation software delivery platforms used across a global engineering organisation. This is a hands-on technical leadership role where you'll combine engineering excellence, platform thinking, and people leadership to create secure, scalable, and frictionless developer experiences. You'll guide a high-performing team building reusable CI/CD capabilities, automation tooling, and software supply chain controls that help thousands of engineers deliver software safely and efficiently. What You'll Be Doing

• Lead and mentor a team of engineers delivering critical DevSecOps and platform capabilities
• Define technical strategy and architectural direction for CI/CD and automation platforms
• Build secure, reusable CI/CD components that drive consistency, governance, and compliance across the software development lifecycle
• Design solutions that enhance software supply chain security, provenance, and auditability
• Integrate with engineering tooling ecosystems to automate workflows and improve developer productivity
• Work directly with engineering teams and stakeholders to understand challenges and drive adoption
• Create enablement content, training, workshops, and best practices to support platform adoption
• Use data and feedback to continuously improve platform performance, reliability, and user experience
• Champion modern engineering practices, automation, and continuous improvement across the organisation What We're Looking For
• Proven experience as a Technical Lead, Staff Engineer, Principal Engineer, Platform Engineer, or Senior DevOps Engineer
• Java / JVM technologies
• TypeScript
• Deep understanding of modern DevOps principles, including:
• CI/CD
• Reliability engineering
• SLI/SLO management
• Error budgets
• GitHub Actions
• Infrastructure as Code and platform automation
• Ansible or equivalent tooling
• Experience designing and operating cloud-native platforms
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes and GCP
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills Nice to Have
• Experience with TeamCity, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Tekton, or similar orchestration platforms
• Knowledge of software supply chain security and frameworks such as SLSA
• Understanding of SBOM generation, provenance, and compliance controls
• Experience coaching, mentoring, and developing engineering talent
• Experience building internal developer platforms or engineering enablement capabilities