Platform Engineering Manager - NatWest Group
Join us as a Platform Engineering Manager
- Identifying and solve engineering-wide challenges as they appear
- We'll look to you to deliver exceptionally high-quality work and empower engineers to make a big impact
- Investing in NatWest Boxed's overall platform architecture
- Ensuring the security of our systems and working practice
What you'll do
As a Platform Engineering Manager, you will take ownership of our data ecosystem, guiding a high-performing engineering squad to architect and maintain a robust platform that empowers every business unit to effectively ingest, manage, and leverage data for varied strategic requirements.
Day-to-day, you'll be:
- Leading, mentoring and growing a high-performing team of platform engineers, shaping our hiring strategy and fostering a culture of innovation and ownership
- Defining the strategic vision and technical roadmap for our data platform, focusing on self-service, reliability, scalability, security, and user experience
- Critically evaluating architectural proposals and technical designs from the team, ensuring alignment with long-term business goals, platform vision, architecture and security
- Championing engineering excellence by embedding best practices for self-service platform engineering, CI/CD, and SRE, while owning the operational health of our platform through SLOs
- Collaborating with Product, Architecture, Analytics and Security teams to deliver a secure, robust platform that enables all groups to easily manage data within defined standards
- Driving projects from inception to delivery, taking into consideration the needs of your customers whilst fitting into the wider Platform strategy
- Engaging with clients and vendors on integration patterns and implementation
The skills you'll need
We're looking for someone with p roven experience leading, managing, and scaling high-performing data mesh architectures as well as the ability to connect technical architecture decisions directly to business outcomes; you understand the cost, risk, and revenue impact. It would be great if you had experience with FinTech / Banking and hands-on experience with programming languages such as Python or Go.
You'll also have:
- A strong technical background in cloud-native technologies (e.g., AWS, GCP) and event streaming (Kafka).
- Deep understanding of modern platform engineering principles, including infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform, Crossplane), data streaming platforms, data transformation, observability (e.g., Datadog, OpenTelemetry) and self-service platform design
- A strategic mindset with experience designing, building, and operating scalable, distributed systems.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences internal and external