KDR Talent Solutions
Head of Platform Engineering
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Head of Platform Engineering - London Fintech - £150,000–£200,000 Package
A fast-growing, VC/PE-backed fintech in London is looking for a Head of Platform Engineering to take ownership of its cloud platform as the business scales into new markets internationally.
This is a genuine build-and-lead role. You'll take a platform that's already live and growing fast, and shape where it goes next: architecture, team, standards, and the roadmap for reliability and scale as the company expands into new regions over the next 12 to 24 months.
What you'll be doing
- Owning the cloud platform end-to-end: architecture, reliability, and the roadmap for scaling it as the business grows
- Building and leading a platform engineering function, setting technical direction and hiring as the team grows
- Working closely with the leadership team to align infrastructure investment with business priorities
- Championing modern engineering practices, including automation, observability, and security-by-design, across the wider engineering org
- Acting as a senior technical voice in the business, translating platform decisions into commercial impact
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What we're looking for
- Proven experience leading or owning a cloud platform at a growing tech business, ideally within fintech or another fast-moving, high-stakes environment
- A track record of building platform teams and practices from the ground up, not just maintaining what's already there
- Comfortable operating strategically with leadership while staying close enough to the detail to make good technical calls
- Someone who's genuinely energised by scaling infrastructure alongside a growing business, not just running steady-state operations
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The offer
- £150,000 to £200,000 total package, including bonus and equity
- Hybrid working, with flexibility around onsite days
- A rare opportunity to shape the platform function at a business still early enough that your decisions will define how it scales
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