Lead Platform Engineer

Phoenix Group is seeking a Lead Platform Engineer to join their Cloud Hub team, playing a vital role in delivering high-quality engineering services. This permanent position can be based in Wythall, Telford, London, or Edinburgh, offering flexible working arrangements. The role involves designing solutions, managing technical aspects, and ensuring alignment with business strategies while maintaining operational efficiency. Candidates should possess deep knowledge of cloud services, automation tools, and modern IT delivery practices. The position offers a competitive salary of £65,000 to £90,000, along with a generous benefits package. Phoenix Group values diversity and encourages applicants from all backgrounds.

The Lead Platform Engineer plays a critical role in the design and delivery of high quality engineering services. Platform Engineers are cloud-agnostic and may have niche skills applicable to specific technologies, business units or organizations but fundamentally are responsible for both guiding technical aspects of a project and managing the team to ensure successful delivery, maintaining a strong commercial focus to optimise operational expenditure.
We have an incredible opportunity to join us here at Phoenix Group as a Lead Platform Engineer within our Cloud Hub team.
Job Type: Permanent
Location: This role could be based in either our Wythall, Telford, London or Edinburgh offices with time spent working in the office and at home.
Flexible working: All of our roles are open to part-time, job-share and other types of flexibility. We will discuss what is important to you and balancing this with business requirements during the recruitment process. You can read more about Phoenix Flex here.
Closing Date: 21/06/25
Salary and benefits: £65,000 – £90,000 plus 16% bonus up to 32%, private medical cover, 38 days annual leave, excellent pension, 12x salary life assurance, career breaks, income protection, 3x volunteering days and much more
Who are we?
We want to be the best place that any of our 6,600 colleagues have ever worked.
We’re Phoenix Group, we’re a long-term savings and retirement business. We offer a range of products across our market-leading brands, Standard Life, SunLife, Phoenix Life and ReAssure. Around 1 in 5 people in the UK has a pension with us. We’re a FTSE 100 organisation that is tackling key issues such as transitioning our portfolio to net zero by 2050, and we’re not done yet
The role
The Lead Platform Engineer plays a critical role in the design and delivery of high quality engineering services. Platform Engineers are cloud-agnostic and may have niche skills applicable to specific technologies, business units or organizations but fundamentally are responsible for both guiding technical aspects of a project and managing the team to ensure successful delivery, maintaining a strong commercial focus to optimise operational expenditure.
Key Responsibilities:
– Design of lower level solutions in readiness for engineering and execution, i.e. deliver technical specifications and designs
– Works in conjunction with Architecture & Strategy to set the direction for their area to ensure high quality engineering, understanding how this links to the change delivery strategy and business strategy as a whole
– Build and maintain relationships with strategic partners at senior level to ensure maximum contribution from partner organisations.
– Providing engineering capabilities to support delivery of change, ensuring alignment to business outcomes
– Provides input into the shaping, planning and execution of major programs which relate to their area
– Coaches and supports others as required
What are we looking for?
– Deep knowledge of Cloud hyperscalers (Microsoft Azure, AWS) and ideally major SaaS solutions (Salesforce and Oracle HR & Finance)
– Experience of key automation and other ‘enabling’ tooling, including but not limited to Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CDK), Observability (Dynatrace) and DevSecOps toolchain (Atlassian Jira & Confluence, Github Enterprise, Artifactory)
– Experience of ‘modern’ IT delivery and engineering practices, i.e. Platform and Product based organisations – ideally having experience of transitioning to this model from more traditional ways of working
– Experience with automation and self-service deployment of secure & scalable solutions
– Strategic mindset with a focus on driving towards an architecturally led vision and roadmap Risk management – understanding of the delivery risks faced by IT delivery and the controls in place to manage & mitigate these risks
We want to hire the whole version of you.
We are committed to ensuring that everyone feels accepted and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. If your experience looks different from what we’ve advertised and you believe that you can bring value to the role, we’d love to hear from you.
If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, please let us know so we can help you to be at your best.
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