Platform Engineer Lead

ZipRecruiter; Bromley; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

A global leader in AI-first software engineering seeks a Platform Engineering Lead in Bromley, UK. This role demands over 20 years of experience in application development focusing on performance, scalability, and security, alongside a strong background in cloud deployments and agile methodologies. Become part of a dynamic team responsible for transformative solutions across various challenging projects in technology.

Qualifications

• 20+ years' experience in application development and maintenance.
• 7+ years' experience overseeing enterprise platform solutions.
• Strong experience in Agile environments, especially in finance.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering team to implement best practices.
• Ensure compliance with security standards and optimize performance.
• Deliver scalable, maintainable solutions using cloud technologies.

Skills

Performance

Scalability

Security

Reliability

Java/J2EE

Spring Boot

Mule

API and Microservices

Cloud Deployment

DevOps

Job description

Job Description

Job Title: Platform Engineering Lead

Location: Bromley, UK

Job Description:

Required Skills:

• 20+ years’ experience in building and maintaining applications with focus on performance, scalability, security, and reliability.
• 7+ years’ experience overseeing enterprise-grade platform solutions
• Experience in a highly Agile continuous integration and continuous deployment environment, preferably within a financial domain.
• Strong experience in Java/J2EE, Spring Boot, Mule, web Services, Kafka, SQL & PL/SQL (Oracle)
• Strong knowledge of XML, JSON and its usage within API and Microservice implementations at scale.
• Significant expertise in cloud- deployment using OpenShift, Kubernetes or any one the container platform.
• Experience maintaining on-premises environments, containerized applications and hybrid cloud solutions.
• Experience using leading app servers and integration technologies like Mule ESB, Anypoint Platform, MQ, Kafka.
• Experience in Splunk, Dynatrace or AppDynamics (APM tools).
• Proven ability to leverage knowledge of infrastructure automation, DevOps, cloud technologies and platform architecture to build resilient, scalable and maintainable solutions
• Experience implementing best practices, optimizing performance, ensuring compliance with security standards, and providing leadership to the engineering team
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to delve in low level details with a technical audience and explain concepts at a high level to a non-technical audience.

About Us:

Ascendion is a global, leading provider of AI-first software engineering services, delivering transformative solutions across North America, APAC, and Europe. We are headquartered in New Jersey. We combine technology and talent to deliver tech debt relief, improve engineering productivity solutions, and accelerate time to value, driving our clients’ digital journeys with efficiency and velocity. Guided by our “Engineering to the power of AI” [EngineeringAI] methodology, we integrate AI into software engineering, enterprise operations, and talent orchestration, to address critical challenges of trust, speed, and capital. For more information, please go to www.ascendion.com

With Ascendion (www.ascendion.com), you:

Will get to work on numerous challenging and exciting projects on our various offerings including Salesforce, AI/Data Science, Generative AI/ML, Automation, Cloud Enterprise and Product/Platform Engineering. At Ascendion you have high chances of project extension or redeployment to other clients. Additionally, you can also share CV of anyone you know. We have a referral policy in place.