Lead Platform Engineer - AI Enablement

Client Server; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 117,000 - 143,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus 20%

Learning budget

Private health care

Travel insurance

Mental health support

Wellbeing allowance

Sabbatical after 4 years

Cycle to work

Travel loan

Office dogs

Free breakfast

Job summary

Client Server is seeking a Lead Platform Engineer (AI Enablement) in London with WFH flexibility to £130k+. The role is hands-on, balancing platform engineering with AI adoption across a scaling FinTech.

You will mentor engineers, drive reliability and incident prevention, and collaborate with Product Managers to align technical strategy with business outcomes in a hybrid London office and remote setup.

Qualifications

• Experience managing Cloud / Platform engineering teams
• Deep understanding of modern cloud/platform practices and scalable architectures
• Proven ability to drive reliability, performance and continuous improvement
• Strong ability to bridge technical and non-technical audiences and stakeholders

Responsibilities

• Lead hands-on cloud/platform engineering and set engineering direction
• Mentor engineers and remove bottlenecks to improve delivery
• Define and embed engineering best practices for consistency and operability
• Drive AI adoption across the team and align tech strategy with business goals

Skills

Platform leadership

Cloud architecture

AI enablement

Cloud security

Communication

Tools

Azure

GCP

AWS

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Job description

Lead Platform Engineer (AI Enablement) London / WFH to £130k+

Are you a technologist Platform Engineer with a strong knowledge of AI?

You could be progressing your career in a hands‑on Lead Platform Engineer role at a hugely successful and scaling FinTech.

As the Lead Platform Engineer you'll champion a culture of continuous improvement, providing mentorship and constructive feedback to support the development of engineers while driving team performance, accountability and engagement. You'll identify and remove bottlenecks, optimise resources and ensure consistent delivery, fostering open and transparent communication across remote, hybrid and office based teams.

Remaining hands‑on in Cloud and Platform Engineering, you'll lead by example technically, defining and embedding engineering best practices that promote consistency, scalability and operational excellence across the organisation. You'll also drive the adoption of AI across the team, exploring opportunities to leverage AI in day‑to‑day operations as well as larger scale engineering initiatives.

Collaborating with Product Managers, Engineering Managers and QA teams, you'll align technical strategy with business objectives, contribute to product decisions and ensure platform considerations balance speed of delivery, quality and scalability. You'll proactively identify and mitigate technical risks, while embedding DevSecOps principles to ensure security, monitoring, compliance and automation are integral to the platform from the outset.

Location / WFH:

There's a hybrid work from home policy with three days a week in the dog friendly, London office, where you can enjoy a diverse, sociable team atmosphere with roof top terrace and bar.

About you:

• You have experience of managing Cloud / Platform engineering teams
• You have a deep understanding of modern cloud / platform engineering practices and scalable system architectures
• You have experience driving a culture based on reliability, performance and continuous improvement
• You have strong cloud experience, Azure preferred but GCP or AWS also fine
• You have experience working and scaling a platform to support a fast paced containerised environment
• You have strong communication skills and can bridge the gap between technical and non-technical audiences

What's in it for you:

As a Lead Platform Engineer you will earn a competitive package including:

• Salary to £130k
• Bonus (c20%)
• £1k learning and development budget
• Private Health Care, Travel Insurance, Mental Health sessions, Wellbeing allowance
• Annual anniversary awards (including 4 week paid sabbatical in year 4)
• Perks such as cycle to work scheme, travel loan, office dogs and free breakfast