Lead Platform Engineer Data

MONY Group plc; Manchester; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Up to 30 holidays + bank holidays

Pension up to 6% employer contribution

Enhanced shared parental leave

Work from anywhere scheme

Financial coaching

Mental health platform access

Job summary

A dynamic technology company in Manchester is seeking a Lead Platform Engineer Data. In this hands-on leadership role, you will guide the evolution of database products and influence architecture while mentoring engineers. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in cloud-native environments and a strong background in AWS, automation, and data engineering. This position offers flexible working and a variety of benefits including holidays and parental leave.

Qualifications

• Experience leading platform or infrastructure engineering teams.
• Deep expertise in AWS and container orchestration.
• Strong understanding of database design and data modeling.
• Passionate about improving developer experience.
• Excellent communicator able to influence both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical direction and mentor engineering teams.
• Champion best practices in database design.
• Architect and implement scalable platform solutions.
• Drive continuous improvement in automation and observability.
• Collaborate with Product, Security, and Engineering leaders.

Skills

Cloud-native platform leadership

AWS expertise

Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/CDK)

Database technologies (MongoDB, relational DB)

Automation and observability

AI tools usage

Strong communication

Tools

AWS

Terraform

CDK

DataDog

MongoDB

Relational DBs

Job description

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As a Lead Platform Engineer, you’ll shape the backbone of our engineering ecosystem—designing and evolving the platforms that power our products at scale. You’ll lead technical strategy, champion best practices, and enable teams to deliver faster, safer, and smarter. This is a hands‑on leadership role where you’ll influence architecture, mentor engineers, and drive innovation in cloud infrastructure, automation, and developer experience.

You’ll guide the evolution of our database products, ensuring secure, performant, and developer‑friendly data services, while leading the team through design, delivery, and operational excellence.

Technology Stack

Our platform underpins critically important services, designed for security, scalability, and developer efficiency. We leverage AWS, container orchestration (ECS), and infrastructure‑as‑code (Terraform, CDK) to deliver resilient, automated environments. Observability is powered by DataDog, and we’re embracing AI‑driven tooling (GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT) to accelerate delivery and improve quality. You’ll help us evolve this ecosystem to support rapid growth and innovation.

How you’ll spend your day

• Lead & Inspire: Set technical direction, mentor engineers, and foster a culture of excellence.
• Data Excellence: Champion best practices in database design, enable self‑serve tools for developers, and drive smart, scalable data decisions across the Group.
• Design & Deliver: Architect and implement scalable, secure platform solutions that empower product teams.
• Innovate & Improve: Drive continuous improvement in automation, observability, and developer experience.
• Collaborate & Influence: Partner with Product, Security, and Engineering leaders to align platform strategy with business goals.

What value you’ll bring to the role

• Proven experience leading platform or infrastructure engineering teams in a cloud‑native environment, with specific experience in data engineering.
• Deep expertise in AWS, infrastructure‑as‑code (Terraform/CDK), and container orchestration.
• Strong understanding of database technologies (MongoDB, relational DBs) and data modelling.
• Passion for automation, observability, and improving developer experience.
• Comfortable leveraging AI tools to accelerate delivery and improve quality.
• Excellent communicator who can influence technical and non‑technical stakeholders.

What rewards are on offer

• Up to 30 holidays + bank holidays
• Pension up to 6% employer contribution
• Enhanced shared parental leave – 6 months paid for both parents
• Work from anywhere scheme – 2 weeks per year
• Financial coaching
• Mental health platform access

Why us?

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

We're an inclusive, anti‑racist and equal opportunity employer that values diversity. This means we respect and embrace differences in gender identity, race, ethnic origin, sexual expression and orientation, religion and faith, age, marital status, disability, neurodiversity, social background, education and way of thinking. We’re a place where you can be you.

Our customers and users come from different backgrounds, as do our colleagues. We welcome applications from everyone, and particularly encourage women and Black, Asian and ethnic minority candidates to apply as we’re actively building representation that’s more closely reflective of the communities we serve. Our appointments are made on merit, following a robust and objective assessment process, and the candidate with the highest score is offered the role. If you’re passionate about our purpose of helping households save money and excited about what you could accomplish here, we’d love to hear from you.

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