Platform Lead - UK

PLP Group; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

26 vacation days + 2 duvet days

Comprehensive health and dental care coverage

Central location with a fully stocked kitchen

Professional development programs

Job summary

Next Gate Tech is looking for a Platform Lead in the UK. This senior role focuses on scaling the technology that powers their financial platform, driving product development and ensuring compliance in a regulated industry.

Key responsibilities include developing a multi-year technical vision, leading technology evaluations, and managing cloud infrastructure. Ideal candidates will have over 7 years of experience, along with a strong knowledge of modern cloud architectures, DevOps, and compliance standards.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience building software or infrastructure systems.
• 3+ years in a senior leadership or technical role.
• Demonstrated experience in cloud cost management strategies.

Responsibilities

• Develop a technical vision and roadmap for the core platform.
• Lead the evaluation and decision-making process for platform technologies.
• Drive a Site Reliability Engineering culture.

Skills

Software development

DevOps

Cloud architecture

Security and compliance

Kubernetes

Terraform

Python

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

Sentry

Job description

Platform Lead - UKJob detailsNEXT GATE TECH LIMITEDFull-time**About Next Gate Tech**At Next Gate Tech, we create technologies that reshape the landscape of the fund industry operations.We empower our clients by capturing the full potential of harmonized data to drive intelligent and fully automated operations. Our transformative solutions optimize processes, enhance efficiency, reduce risks, and drive cost savings for our clients.Driven by our commitment to innovation, our intelligence layer extracts invaluable insights, employs advanced pattern analysis spotting anomalies, and uncovers hidden links within the data.Our modular, one-stop-shop, SaaS platform seamlessly ingests diverse datasets, creating a harmonized and enriched source of portfolios, transactions, and accounting data. This robust foundation fuels the platform to generate powerful signals through intelligent analytics, empowering a multitude of use cases.Next Gate Tech is not just a part of the industry's evolution - it is a driving force behind it.Learn more about us:* Our story, values, mission and team: https://nextgatetech.com/about* Our unified platform and technology: https://nextgatetech.com/platform* Our solutions and use cases: https://nextgatetech.com/**About the Role**As a key senior technical leader, the Platform Lead will own and scale the technology and infrastructure that powers our financial technology platform. This role is critical to building the technical foundation that enables new products, supports rapid growth, and upholds the trust expected in financial services. They will design a resilient architecture that accelerates product development, and deliver exceptional reliability as we grow.Partnering closely with product and engineering teams, they will combine hands-on building with strategic technical leadership to ensure our platform remains secure, scalable, and fully compliant with financial-industry standards.### **Responsibilities*** Develop and communicate a clear, multi-year technical vision and strategic roadmap for the core platform (including infrastructure, data services, internal developer tools, and security)* Lead the technical evaluation and decision-making process for platform technologies, balancing in-house development with best-in-class third-party solutions* Drive a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) culture, ensuring high availability, low latency, and robust disaster recovery capabilities* Manage and optimize our cloud infrastructure, focusing on Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g., Terraform), containerization (e.g., Kubernetes), and cost optimization* Champion an outstanding Internal Developer Platform (IDP) and developer experience, providing tools, automation, and documentation that accelerate feature delivery for the product team### **Qualifications*** 7+ years of experience building software, DevOps, or platform/infrastructure systems* 3+ years in a senior leadership or Staff/Principal Engineer role, driving key technical projects* Direct experience in implementing cost management and optimization strategies within a cloud environment, resulting in demonstrable savings* Proven experience working in a highly regulated industry, ideally fintech, banking, or payments, with a deep understanding of security and compliance requirements* Expert-level knowledge of modern cloud architecture (e.g. Microservices, Event-Driven Architecture, Serverless), CI/CD pipelines, and cloud provider platforms.* Strong hands-on experience with container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes), Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g., Terraform), Python, and Observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Sentry)Benefits* 26 vacation days + 2 duvet days, so you can truly recharge and enjoy life* Comprehensive health and dental care coverage* Central location for both offices with a fully stocked kitchen, including healthy snacks, and fresh fruit* Freedom to create your own entrepreneurial experience by being part of a team in search of excellence* Professional Development programs to expand your skills, and maximize your potential on the frontier of financial innovation*Next Gate Tech is an equal opportunity employer. We believe our team’s unique life experiences, backgrounds, cultures, beliefs and abilities add richness to our culture and depth to our ideas. Our ongoing commitment to diversity and inclusion creates an environment that supports, empowers and delivers a sense of belonging for all members of the team.**Should you require any accommodation, please inform us and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs.*