Global Head of Platform Engineering & AI-Ready Infra

Gravitas Recruitment Group (Global) Ltd; Greater London; On-site; GBP 180,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Global Payments Technology is seeking a Global Head / VP of Platform Engineering to lead the next evolution of our engineering infrastructure and developer platform. You will report to the CTO and oversee a distributed team of ~30 Platform Engineers supporting 100+ Product Engineers.

This leadership role drives a technology transformation to build scalable, AI-ready platforms, self-service tooling, and modern CI/CD pipelines.

Qualifications

• Proven leadership across Platform Engineering or Engineering Enablement (high impact).
• Deep technical expertise in cloud-native infra, Kubernetes, AWS, CI/CD and platform architecture.
• Track record transforming platform engineering into a scalable, product-led function.
• Experience building infra and developer capabilities for AI-enabled workflows.

Responsibilities

• Evolve Platform Engineering into a strategic, product-led capability.
• Define AI-ready infrastructure, tooling, and platform capabilities.
• Improve internal developer platforms, self-service infra, and provisioning.
• Modernise CI/CD pipelines and enhance deployment speed and reliability.
• Lead a globally distributed platform engineering organisation.
• Collaborate with CTO and tech leadership to align strategy with priorities.

Skills

Platform engineering

Cloud-native infrastructure

Kubernetes

AWS

CI/CD

DevEx

Executive leadership

Tools

Observability

Job description

Global Payments Technology is seeking a Global Head / VP of Platform Engineering to lead the next evolution of our engineering infrastructure and developer platform. You will report to the CTO and oversee a distributed team of ~30 Platform Engineers supporting 100+ Product Engineers.

This leadership role drives a technology transformation to build scalable, AI-ready platforms, self-service tooling, and modern CI/CD pipelines.