Senior Platform & Data Engineering Leader

Academic Key; Reading; Hybrid; GBP 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Keyloop is seeking a Senior Director of Platform & Data Engineering in Reading, UK. The role leads a distributed team across platform and data engineering, driving API-first, cloud-native architectures and secure, scalable infrastructure.

You will shape the platform roadmap, integrate acquisitions, and enable AI-driven product capabilities. You will partner with CTO to guide data platforms, AI workloads, and low-code/no-code integrations, leveraging AWS, Terraform/Pulumi, Snowflake, and

Qualifications

• Leadership and mentoring of platform and data engineers.
• Define and refine the platform organisational structure and career pathways.
• APIs-first architecture and cloud-native strategy across AWS.
• Set security-by-design standards and compliance (ISO 27001, SOC 2).

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a diverse, distributed team of platform and data engineers.
• Co-own the multi-year platform engineering roadmap with Platform Product Leader.
• Architect and evolve the integration layer + API gateway for internal/external use.
• Design data platform for AI-driven capabilities with data lakes and pipelines.
• Drive agentic development lifecycle with AI-assisted engineering and MCP/LLM gateway.

Skills

Leadership

Platform engineering

Data engineering

API design

Cloud architecture

MLOps

AI

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Pulumi

n8n

Snowflake

Databricks

Kafka

EMR

Glue

Job description

Keyloop is seeking a Senior Director of Platform & Data Engineering in Reading, UK. The role leads a distributed team across platform and data engineering, driving API-first, cloud-native architectures and secure, scalable infrastructure.

You will shape the platform roadmap, integrate acquisitions, and enable AI-driven product capabilities. You will partner with CTO to guide data platforms, AI workloads, and low-code/no-code integrations, leveraging AWS, Terraform/Pulumi, Snowflake, and