Senior Platform Lead - AI & Agentic Systems DX

IFS; Madrid; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

IFS is seeking a Senior Principal Platform Lead to define the strategy and own the Internal Developer Platform. You will lead end-to-end execution, drive adoption, and work across NGA and IFS product teams to deliver cohesive developer experiences.

You are expected to be hands-on, with a track record in Kubernetes, Go, React/Next.js, and cloud-native tooling, shaping the future of AI-native enterprise software at scale.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in platform, infrastructure, or developer-tooling engineering.
• Experience shipping internal developer platforms at enterprise scale and driving adoption.
• Hands-on Kubernetes in production with IaC, CI/CD, and observability.

Responsibilities

• Own the IDP vision, roadmap, and end-to-end execution, including service catalogue, self-service scaffolding, golden paths, CI/CD integration, and developer portals.
• Own the developer experience vision for the Nexus platform from service creation to production observability.
• Work with Kairos, Nexus, Auth, Base Tech, and product teams to deliver cohesive developer experiences.
• Define platform standards to make the right way the easy way.
• Drive adoption metrics: onboarding time, self-service completion, platform NPS, time-to-first-deployment.
• Integrate authentication and authorization services into the IDP self-service model.
• Collaborate with NGA product teams and IFS R&D to prioritise fixes based on developer feedback.
• Partner with IAM, infrastructure, and SRE teams for coherent developer surface.
• Establish feedback loops, developer surveys, usage analytics, office hours, and act on them.
• Influence platform strategy at architectural level and present in leadership forums.
• Mentor Principal and Senior platform engineers to raise DX standards.

Skills

Platform engineering

Hands-on delivery

Clear communication

Go

React/Next.js

Tools

Kubernetes (AKS)

Terraform / Crossplane

CI/CD pipelines

Observability

PostgreSQL

Job description

IFS is seeking a Senior Principal Platform Lead to define the strategy and own the Internal Developer Platform. You will lead end-to-end execution, drive adoption, and work across NGA and IFS product teams to deliver cohesive developer experiences.

You are expected to be hands-on, with a track record in Kubernetes, Go, React/Next.js, and cloud-native tooling, shaping the future of AI-native enterprise software at scale.