Lead Platform Engineer - AI Enablement

Client Server Limited; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Learning budget

Private health care

Travel insurance

Mental health support

Wellbeing allowance

Job summary

Client Server Limited in London is seeking a Lead Platform Engineer (AI Enablement) to lead cloud and platform engineering across a fast-growing FinTech. You will mentor engineers, remove bottlenecks and drive reliability, performance and AI-enabled initiatives.

With a hybrid WFH policy, three days a week in the London office, you will collaborate with Product Managers, Engineering Managers and QA to balance speed, quality and scalability while embedding DevSecOps and secure, automated

Qualifications

• Experience leading Cloud/Platform engineering teams.
• Deep understanding of modern cloud practices and scalable architectures.
• Experience driving reliability, performance, and continuous improvement culture.
• Strong cloud experience with Azure preferred; AWS or GCP also fine.
• Experience scaling a platform to support containerised environments.
• Excellent communication bridging technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead hands-on Cloud/Platform engineering efforts and drive best practices.
• Collaborate with PMs, Engineering Managers, and QA to align technical strategy.
• Drive AI adoption across the team and initiatives.
• Ensure DevSecOps, security, monitoring, and automation are integral from the start.
• Mentor engineers and remove bottlenecks to improve delivery.

Skills

Cloud leadership

Platform engineering

Cloud architecture

Reliability culture

DevSecOps

Container orchestration

Communication skills

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

Job description

London, Greater London | £100k - £130k per year

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