Platform Architect

Ampstek; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Ampstek is seeking a highly experienced Platform Architect in London to lead enterprise-scale data and integration platforms across Snowflake, Confluent Kafka, Azure, Kubernetes, and CI/CD. The role combines architecture leadership with hands-on guidance to deliver secure, scalable solutions.

The position requires 15+ years in platform engineering, strong customer-facing skills, and a track record of driving modernization and governance across complex cloud environments.

Qualifications

• 15+ years in Platform Engineering, Cloud, Integration, or Data Platforms.
• Must have 1 large program implementing a multi-technology data platform on cloud.
• Strong expertise in Snowflake and/or Confluent Kafka.
• Experience with Confluent Cloud, Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, and event-driven architecture.
• Hands-on with GitHub Actions, CI/CD, DevOps automation, and IaC.
• Experience with Azure/AWS/GCP cloud platforms.
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes, containers, and cloud-native platforms.
• Deep understanding of Data Mesh, Data Governance, Security, and Compliance.
• Experience with observability, monitoring, and platform operations.
• Strong stakeholder management and customer-facing experience.
• Experience working in Agile delivery environments.

Responsibilities

• Define enterprise platform architecture, reference architectures, standards, and guardrails.
• Build modernization roadmaps for Data, Streaming, Integration, and Platform Engineering ecosystems.
• Drive architecture reviews, technology evaluations, and platform transformation initiatives.
• Establish governance, security, resilience, scalability, and cost-optimization frameworks.
• Lead Snowflake architecture covering security, governance, RBAC, data sharing, and multi-environment strategy.
• Define enterprise data platform standards and operational best practices.

Skills

Platform architecture

Cloud platforms

Kubernetes

Data governance

Agile delivery

Stakeholder management

Observability

Security & compliance

Platform leadership

Tools

Snowflake

Confluent Kafka

Kafka Connect

Schema Registry

GitHub Actions

CI/CD

Azure

AWS

GCP

Job description

AmpsTek – a global technology leader since 2013 – is transforming how businesses approach technology and staffing solutions. Founded by seasoned technology leaders across the UK, Europe, APAC, North America, and LATAM, and with registered offices in 30+ countries, we deliver exceptional service, scalable solutions, and measurable impact.

With a portfolio of 200+ clients and millions of users across web and mobile platforms, we empower businesses to innovate, grow, and succeed.

Join our team and be part of a dynamic, growth-oriented organization that values talent, creativity, and results.

Role : Platform Architect

Location : London, UK (Hybrid 3 days onsite/week)

Contract (InsideIR35)

Minimum years of experience: 15+ years

Job Description

We are seeking a highly experienced Platform Architect to lead the architecture, governance, modernization, and operational excellence of enterprise-scale Data and Integration Platforms across Snowflake, Confluent Cloud Kafka, Azure Cloud, GitHub Actions CI/CD, Kubernetes, Data Mesh, and broader integration ecosystems. The ideal candidate will combine deep technical expertise with strategic architecture leadership, strong customer engagement skills, and the ability to provide hands‑on guidance across multiple platform domains. This role will be responsible for shaping the platform strategy, defining architectural standards and best practices, and driving technology transformation initiatives that deliver scalable, secure, resilient, and business‑aligned solutions.

Your role & Responsibilities

• Define enterprise platform architecture, reference architecture, standards, and engineering guardrails.
• Build modernization roadmaps for Data, Streaming, Integration, and Platform Engineering ecosystems.
• Drive architecture reviews, technology evaluations, and platform transformation initiatives.
• Establish governance, security, resilience, scalability, and cost-optimization frameworks.
• Lead Snowflake architecture covering security, governance, RBAC, data sharing, performance optimization, and multi-environment strategy.
• Define enterprise data platform standards and operational best practices.
• Guide warehouse sizing, workload management, performance tuning, and cost optimization.
• Define topic governance, schema management, security controls, HA/DR, and cluster strategy.
• Establish enterprise integration patterns using Kafka, Kafka Connect, APIs, and streaming architectures.
• Define and implement CI/CD standards using GitHub Actions.
• Drive Infrastructure-as-Code, automation, release governance, and quality gates.
• Establish platform engineering practices supporting continuous delivery and automation.
• Define Data Mesh principles, domain ownership models, governance, metadata management, and interoperability standards.
• Establish integration architecture across Snowflake, Kafka, cloud platforms, APIs, ETL/ELT, and downstream systems.
• Collaborate with business and engineering teams to enable scalable data products

Required

• 15+ years in Platform Engineering, Cloud, Integration, or Data Platforms.
• must have 1 large program where the person has implemented a multi technology platform for data on cloud
• Strong expertise in Snowflake and/or Confluent Kafka.
• Experience with Confluent Cloud, Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, and event-driven architecture.
• Hands‑on experience with GitHub Actions, CI/CD, DevOps automation, and Infrastructure‑as‑Code.
• Experience with Azure/AWS/GCP cloud platforms.
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes, containerization, and cloud-native platforms.
• Deep understanding of Data Mesh, Data Governance, Security, and Compliance.
• Experience with observability, monitoring, and platform operations.
• Strong stakeholder management and customer‑facing experience.
• Experience working in Agile delivery environments

Personal

Besides the professional qualifications of the candidates, we place great importance in addition to various forms personality profile. These include:

• High analytical skills
• A high degree of initiative and flexibility
• High customer orientation
• High quality awareness
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills