Platform Technical Lead

Salary: £49,000 - 89,000 per year

Requirements:

• 10+ years of software engineering, infrastructure engineering, or platform engineering experience.
• 5+ years leading cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or engineering enablement teams.
• Experience defining cloud platform strategy and operating models.
• Experience with Kubernetes, container platforms, and cloud-native architectures.
• Strong knowledge of Infrastructure as Code and platform automation.
• Experience leading adoption of AI engineering tooling and AI-native software delivery approaches.
• Good understanding of LLM platforms, agents, evaluation frameworks, and AI governance practices.
• Experience with observability, DevOps, CI/CD, and engineering productivity platforms.
• Experience managing multi-region, multi-tenant, and large-scale cloud platforms.
• Proven experience leading platform engineering, cloud engineering, and infrastructure teams.

Responsibilities:

• Define and evolve the cloud platform, developer platform, and AI enablement strategy supporting engineering teams across the organisation.
• Lead engineering teams responsible for cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, developer experience, and AI enablement capabilities.
• Establish cloud-native engineering standards, platform guardrails, and reusable engineering capabilities.
• Drive adoption of platform engineering practices, self-service developer platforms, and infrastructure automation.
• Define the strategy and governance model for AI engineering tooling, AI-native software delivery, and responsible use of AI-generated artefacts.
• Lead evaluation, adoption, and operationalisation of AI engineering technologies including coding assistants, agent frameworks, evaluation platforms, and engineering automation tooling.
• Own engineering platform capabilities including CI/CD, deployment automation, observability, secrets management, platform security, and self-service engineering tooling.
• Drive improvements in developer productivity, engineering effectiveness, and delivery throughput through platform automation and AI enablement capabilities.
• Ensure platform services remain secure, scalable, resilient, cost-efficient, and operationally robust.
• Define platform reliability, availability, security, and operational excellence objectives.
• Lead cloud platform evolution including multi-tenancy, multi-region deployment, scalability, resilience, and platform governance.
• Influence platform, cloud, and engineering technology investment decisions.
• Build engineering capability through coaching, talent development, and succession planning.
• Provide technical leadership and hands-on guidance across multiple engineering teams and delivery domains.
• Lead and develop high-performing engineering teams, fostering a culture of technical excellence, accountability, continuous improvement, and delivery ownership.
• Drive cross-functional technical forums, resolve major engineering risks, and ensure alignment with engineering standards, architectural principles, and platform evolution roadmaps.

Technologies:

• AI
• ARM
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• DevOps
• Kubernetes
• LLM
• PLC
• Security
• Network

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We are VOIS (Vodafone Intelligent Solutions), a strategic arm of Vodafone Group Plc, creating value for customers through Talent, Technology & Transformation. As the largest shared services organisation in the global telco industry with 30,000 FTE, we design next-generation solutions and services in partnership with Vodafone Group, local markets, and partner markets to simplify and drive growth. In partnership with Accenture, we work with Vodafone customers and other telco and tech companies to drive transformation and stay relevant and resilient. We operate across 28 countries from 10 VOIS locations, including Albania, Egypt, Hungary, India, Romania, Spain, Turkey, the UK, Germany, and Ireland, with additional teams in Czech Republic, Italy, Greece, and Portugal. The role is based in Paddington or Newbury in a hybrid setup, and we build the digital and technology capabilities that power Vodafones next-generation products and services through cloud-native engineering, reusable platforms, APIs, integrations, secure digital services, and AI-native engineering practices.

last updated 36 week of 2026