Infosys
Platform Lead/ Senior Consultant - Snowflake
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Role – Platform Lead/ Senior Consultant
Technology – Snowflake, Confluent Cloud, CICD, Fivetran, AKS, K8
Location – London, UK
Job Description
We are seeking a highly motivated and technically strong Platform Lead to lead a modern Data & Integration Platform comprising Snowflake, Confluent Kafka, Azure Cloud, Kubernetes, Fivetran, and CI/CD ecosystem. The ideal candidate will combine deep technical expertise with strong delivery and people leadership capabilities to drive platform reliability, operational excellence, governance, automation, observability, and stakeholder management.
The role requires hands-on expertise in at least two platform technologies, with mandatory expertise in either Snowflake or Confluent Kafka. The individual will lead cross-functional teams, mentor technical leads, drive Agile ways of working, and ensure successful delivery of platform services aligned to business objectives.
Your Role & Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end platform delivery, operations, governance, and service management.
- Define and execute platform strategy, roadmap, and modernization initiatives.
- Drive platform scalability, resilience, automation, and operational maturity.
- Establish engineering best practices, governance controls, and operating procedures.
- Serve as the primary escalation point for critical production incidents and service disruptions.
- Lead planning, execution, and delivery of platform initiatives across multiple technology tracks.
- Drive Agile ways of working using Scrum, Kanban, and continuous improvement practices.
- Ensure adherence to SLAs, KPIs, operational metrics, and customer commitments.
- Proactively manage risks, dependencies, and technical blockers.
- Drive compliance, security, audit readiness, and cost optimization.
- Implement effective monitoring, observability, and service management processes.
- Hands-on experience
- Mentor and guide Snowflake, Kafka, Cloud, DevOps, and Platform engineers.
- Provide architectural oversight and technical governance across the platform landscape.
- Drive platform architecture related discussion with Leads, Platform architect & Client
- Contribute to solution designs, operational processes, and technical implementation approaches.
- Build, mentor, and develop high-performing Platform engineering team
- Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, collaboration, and continuous learning.
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Required
- 7+ years leading Data Platform, Cloud, Integration, or Platform Engineering teams.
- Proven experience managing large enterprise production environments.
- Experience working in global Agile delivery environments.
- Strong stakeholder and client engagement experience.
- Strong expertise in Snowflake Administration and/or Confluent Kafka Platform.
- Experience with Azure/AWS/GCP cloud platforms.
- Good understanding of SCM tool like Github and CI/CD pipelines, and automation frameworks.
- Experience with Kubernetes, containerization, and cloud-native platforms.
- Strong understanding of Data Mesh, Data Governance, Security, and Compliance.
- Experience in monitoring, observability, and platform operations.
- Experience in Agile environments and CI/CD practices.
- Familiarity with SNOW workflows.
- Exposure to Data.world and Manta.
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Personal
Besides the professional qualifications of the candidates we place great importance in addition to various forms personality profile. These include:
- High analytical skills
- A high degree of initiative and flexibility
- High customer orientation
- High quality awareness
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Overview
Infosys is a global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting. We enable clients in 59 countries to navigate their digital transformation.
With over four decades of experience in managing the systems and workings of global enterprises, we expertly steer clients, in 59 countries, as they navigate their digital transformation powered by cloud and AI. We enable them with an AI-first core, empower the business with agile digital at scale and drive continuous improvement with always-on learning through the transfer of digital skills, expertise, and ideas from our innovation ecosystem. We are deeply committed to being a well-governed, environmentally sustainable organization where diverse talent thrives in an inclusive workplace.
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