Staff Platform Engineer
Core
Design, build, and evolve secure, scalable, and reliable platform capabilities to enable engineering and data teams to deliver high-quality outcomes at pace.
Role type
Staff Platform Engineer
Builds
Modern platform capabilities, self-service capabilities, reusable templates, and standardised pipelines for engineering and data teams.
Domain
Financial services / Cloud data platforms / Platform Engineering
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure | product features
Required skills
Cloud data platforms (Airflow, DBT, Snowflake, AWS), CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform), Automation, Reliability engineering, Risk management, Enterprise release/change management
Preferred skills
Financial services experience, Batch and near real-time data processing patterns, Modular data modelling, Testing and documentation, Lineage
Technologies
Airflow, DBT, Snowflake, AWS, Github Actions, Terraform
Responsibilities
Lead and mentor engineers on best practices; Provide technical leadership and direction for platform initiatives; Design platform strategy, roadmap, and architecture; Drive automation-first practices for provisioning, deployment, and lifecycle management; Improve developer experience through self-service capabilities; Partner with product, architecture, security, and data teams; Identify and remediate technical debt and risks; Drive platform observability, reliability, performance engineering, and cost optimisation.
Seniority
Staff, technical leadership & mentorship