Senior Director of Platform & Data Engineering

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KeyloopAutomotive retail software

Listing location: UK (Reading); Workplace type: RemoteFull-TimeDirector

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Deep experience in cloud-native platform engineering on AWS.
Experience with infrastructure as code using Terraform or Pulumi, containerisation using Kubernetes or ECS, Kafka, and API gateway patterns.
Track record designing and operating shared platform services in a complex, multi-product enterprise SaaS environment.
Hands-on data platform engineering background, including data lake architecture and ELT pipelines; familiarity with Snowflake, Databricks, and AWS Athena, Glue, and EMR.
Experience building AI/ML infrastructure, including feature stores, model serving, MLOps pipelines, and LLM-enabling platform capabilities.
Strong understanding of OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, SLO/error budget frameworks, and production reliability engineering.
Hands-on experience with enterprise security practices, ISO 27001, SOC 2, and zero-trust architecture patterns.
Extensive engineering leadership experience building and developing distributed teams of 60+ people.
Experience leading M&A technical integration and platform standardisation across acquired codebases and teams.
Familiarity with SAFe, Shape Up, or equivalent delivery frameworks, and strong FinOps capability.
Practical experience adopting and scaling AI-native development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, or Cursor.

Lead and develop a distributed team of platform and data engineers, and shape the platform function's organisational structure.
Set platform strategy and co-own the multi-year engineering roadmap with the Platform Product Leader.
Evolve shared services, the API gateway, integration layer, and internal developer platform across product lines.
Drive cloud-native architecture using AWS and infrastructure-as-code practices.
Architect integration capabilities for acquired businesses and maintain shared identity, authentication, multi-tenancy, and data residency capabilities.
Lead delivery of the data platform, including data lakes, pipelines, analytical infrastructure, and AI/ML workloads.
Define the strategy and toolchains for an agentic software development lifecycle and build supporting platform capabilities.
Establish platform observability standards and oversee delivery, reliability, security, and cloud cost governance.
Partner with executive, engineering, product, data science, and infrastructure leaders on platform priorities.

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