Platform Engineering Leader: Scale & Reliability (Hybrid)

Beams Renovation Limited; Manchester; Híbrido; GBP 108.000 - 132.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Company Equity

25 days annual leave plus Bank Holiday

Birthday day off

Descripción de la vacante

OnCommerce is seeking a Head of Platform Engineering to lead the engineering function and translate technology strategy into high-performing teams and a secure, scalable platform. You will own delivery performance, standards and operational resilience across both current and target-state platforms.

You will lead through Engineering Leads, ensuring consistency across squads and providing the CTO with visibility on performance, capacity, risk and investment needs.

Formación

• Substantial engineering leadership experience across multiple teams in a product-led, marketplace, ecommerce or high-traffic environment.
• A strong software engineering background, with credibility across monolithic and service-based architectures.
• Experience leading engineering transformation while keeping a live, revenue-generating platform operational.
• Proven people leadership, including managing managers, workforce planning, hiring, performance and development.
• Strong experience of cloud operations, service reliability, security engineering, incident management and technical debt governance.
• The ability to establish engineering standards and improve cross-team delivery in a fast-moving, resource-constrained environment.

Responsabilidades

• Translate the CTO's strategy into a clear engineering plan and operating rhythm.
• Own delivery health, capacity, dependencies, risks and escalation.
• Partner with Product to align priorities with engineering capacity.
• Oversee live-service support, on-call coverage and incident responses.
• Set observability standards, runbooks and post-incident reviews.
• Define engineering standards across design, coding, testing and deployment.
• Govern platform decisions across legacy and target-state migrations.
• Lead Engineering Leads and drive leadership development.
• Workforce planning and hiring standards for engineering.
• Embed security, automated testing and quality controls.
• Track technical debt, security risk and remediation priorities.
• Report delivery and platform health to the CTO.

Conocimientos

Engineering leadership

Cloud operations

Security engineering

Platform delivery

Herramientas

PHP/Laravel

GCP

MySQL

Couchbase

MongoDB

Redis

APIs

Event‑driven systems

Descripción del empleo

OnCommerce is seeking a Head of Platform Engineering to lead the engineering function and translate technology strategy into high-performing teams and a secure, scalable platform. You will own delivery performance, standards and operational resilience across both current and target-state platforms.

You will lead through Engineering Leads, ensuring consistency across squads and providing the CTO with visibility on performance, capacity, risk and investment needs.