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Platform Architect – PaaS / Platform Services – London
A research focused technology organisation operating at significant scale is looking for a senior Platform Architect to help shape the platforms and services used across its engineering environment.
The role is focused on PaaS and platform services, covering areas such as developer platforms, containerised workloads, compute platforms, shared services, automation and the underlying technologies that allow engineering teams to build and deploy software at scale.
This isn't a purely high-level architecture or governance position. They’re looking for someone who has spent their career close to engineering, helping design and evolve complex platforms and making technical decisions around how those platforms should be built.
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What you’ll need:
- Significant experience as a Platform Architect, Principal Architect, Principal Engineer or similar senior technical role
- Strong PaaS and platform services experience, ideally designing platforms used by large engineering or development populations
- Experience across areas such as Kubernetes, container platforms, developer platforms, CI/CD, automation, IaC and shared platform services
- Good understanding of the underlying IaaS layer, including compute, networking, storage, cloud and security
- Experience operating in complex engineering environments rather than purely governance focused architecture functions
- Broad technical judgement with the ability to work closely with engineering teams and make architectural decisions independently
- Experience designing and evolving platforms at significant scale
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Standout/relevant backgrounds:
- Quantitative trading firms
- Hedge funds
- FinTech
- Large scale technology organisations
- Hyperscalers
- Organisations running significant internal developer or application platforms
This would suit someone who has spent years building and designing platforms, remains technically close to engineering, and wants to continue solving complex platform problems rather than moving further into management.
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