Platform Engineering Lead — Build Scalable Fintech Infra

Stanford Black Limited; Greater London; Presencial; GBP 120.000 - 170.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Stanford Black Limited is seeking an Engineering Lead for Platform Engineering within a fintech context backed by a major financial institution. You will guide a high-performing squad, shape strategy, and drive scale across the organisation’s engineering platforms.

The role focuses on reliability, automation, and developer tooling, with a strong emphasis on AI-assisted engineering governance and security. You will partner with senior leadership to deliver strategic platform initiatives and

Formación

• Proven track record of leading engineers and building high-performing teams.
• Strong foundation in distributed systems, cloud-native architectures and Kubernetes.
• Ability to evaluate architectural decisions and balance short- and long-term outcomes.
• Experience operating production systems and leading through incidents.
• Strong stakeholder management across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience implementing AI-enabled engineering practices with governance, validation and security.
• 10+ years of software engineering experience.

Responsabilidades

• Building and leading a high-performing platform engineering team, helping great engineers become even better.
• Owning platform initiatives from strategy and roadmap through to delivery and production operations.
• Setting the engineering standard across reliability, automation, infrastructure and software quality.
• Partnering with senior leadership to define long-term platform strategy and technical direction.
• Driving a strong ownership culture, where teams build, run and continuously improve what they ship.
• Navigating architectural trade-offs across multiple engineering groups and driving alignment.
• Leading the adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices with governance and measurable outcomes.

Conocimientos

Leadership

Distributed systems

Cloud-native architecture

Kubernetes

Incident management

AI-assisted engineering

Stakeholder management

Herramientas

Terraform

Crossplane

AWS

Descripción del empleo

Stanford Black Limited is seeking an Engineering Lead for Platform Engineering within a fintech context backed by a major financial institution. You will guide a high-performing squad, shape strategy, and drive scale across the organisation’s engineering platforms.

The role focuses on reliability, automation, and developer tooling, with a strong emphasis on AI-assisted engineering governance and security. You will partner with senior leadership to deliver strategic platform initiatives and