Senior Platform Engineer & Tech Lead — Cloud Risk Analytics

Experis UK; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Experis UK in London is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer/Manager to design, build and operate core platform services powering analytics and risk calculations. You will lead the middle tier, connecting data, models and business applications, and scale complex computations securely and reliably.

You will work with Quant Devs, Data Engineers and Tech leaders, combining hands-on engineering with technical leadership and setting engineering standards across the team.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and building APIs and service-oriented architectures.
• Strong understanding of cloud platforms (Azure, AWS or GCP).
• Experience with containerised deployments (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Knowledge of job orchestration, workflow engines and message queues.
• Strong SQL and data integration experience.
• Experience building highly available, production-grade systems.
• Understanding of monitoring, observability and operational support.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
• Experience in risk systems, portfolio analytics or financial services platforms.
• Large-scale batch processing or calculation-heavy environments.
• Model governance, version control and auditable execution frameworks.
• Leading engineering teams or mentoring technical colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Designing and developing scalable Python-based services and APIs.
• Building cloud-native platforms supporting analytical and risk workloads.
• Developing orchestration frameworks for batch and on-demand calculations.
• Managing containerised environments and distributed compute services.
• Implementing monitoring, observability and operational tooling.
• Building resilient services with fault tolerance, recovery and retry capabilities.
• Creating CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Ensuring security, governance and auditability are embedded throughout the platform.
• Collaborating with model developers to productionise analytical solutions.
• Providing hands-on technical leadership and mentoring across the team.

Skills

API design

SOA

Cloud platforms

Workflow engines

Message queues

SQL

Data integration

Monitoring

Observability

Stakeholder engagement

Risk systems

Batch processing

Model governance

Mentoring

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Job description

Experis UK in London is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer/Manager to design, build and operate core platform services powering analytics and risk calculations. You will lead the middle tier, connecting data, models and business applications, and scale complex computations securely and reliably.

You will work with Quant Devs, Data Engineers and Tech leaders, combining hands-on engineering with technical leadership and setting engineering standards across the team.