Senior Platform Engineer — Azure & GCP Cloud Architect

Next Ventures; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Next Ventures seeks a hands-on Lead Platform Engineer to accelerate a major cloud transformation in a regulated banking environment. You will shape platform architecture, build Azure and GCP capabilities, and lead engineering teams through modernisation.

This role combines senior technical leadership with practical delivery, guiding architectural decisions while remaining deeply involved in engineering delivery and platform automation.

Qualifications

• Hands-on lead platform engineering with cloud architecture focus.
• Experience in regulated banking environments.
• Ability to guide architectural decisions while delivering engineering outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Define target architectures for modernisation and scalable platform adoption.
• Develop Azure/GCP reference patterns and reusable components.
• Drive IaC adoption and automation using Terraform and CI/CD pipelines.
• Ensure security, regulatory, and resilience requirements are met.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Azure & GCP

Technical leadership

Hands-on engineering

Tools

Terraform

CI/CD

Observability tools

Job description

Next Ventures seeks a hands-on Lead Platform Engineer to accelerate a major cloud transformation in a regulated banking environment. You will shape platform architecture, build Azure and GCP capabilities, and lead engineering teams through modernisation.

This role combines senior technical leadership with practical delivery, guiding architectural decisions while remaining deeply involved in engineering delivery and platform automation.