Platform Engineer Lead - AI Enablement

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

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus (20%)

Learning & development budget £1k

Private health care

Wellbeing allowance

Sabbatical (4 weeks in year 4)

Cycle to work

Job summary

Client Server Limited in London is seeking a Platform Engineer Lead to drive cloud/platform engineering, mentor engineers, and lead AI enablement initiatives. The role requires hands-on leadership across hybrid teams to ensure scalable, secure, and efficient platform delivery.

You'll champion best practices, collaborate with product and QA, and promote a culture of reliability, performance, and continuous improvement within a fast-paced FinTech environment.

Qualifications

• Experience leading Cloud/Platform engineering teams.
• Ability to bridge technical and non-technical audiences.
• Deep understanding of modern cloud/platform engineering practices and scalable architectures.

Responsibilities

• Mentor and develop engineers while driving team performance.
• Lead by example technically in cloud/platform engineering.
• Define and embed engineering best practices for consistency, scalability and operations.
• Drive adoption of AI across the team and engineering initiatives.

Skills

Cloud / Platform leadership

Cross-functional leadership

Communication skills

Modern cloud engineering practices

Scalable architectures

Reliability culture

Azure / GCP / AWS

Containerised environments

Job description

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

Platform Engineer Lead (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 Platform Engineer Lead role at a hugely successful and scaling FinTech.

As the Platform Engineer Lead 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're comfortable leading cross functional teams, working with engineering teams, QA and other stakeholders
• You have strong communication skills and can bridge the gap between technical and non‑technical audiences
• 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

What's in it for you:

As a Platform Engineer Lead 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