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As Director of Platform Architecture, you lead the architecture team responsible for our core platform, the foundation that every other team depends on. Your P&L covers infrastructure, platform architecture, platform tools and systems and third parties. Your decisions on hiring, priorities, and technical strategy shape how we scale for the next three years. This is a rare opportunity: leadership scope with hands-on technical credibility. You'll own a critical business domain, lead talented architects, influence services strategy, and stay connected to technical details that matter. You're equally comfortable in a senior leadership conversation about technical debt and a design review with your architecture and platform teams.
Job Responsibility:
Build & Lead High-Performing Teams
Set Technical Strategy & Direction
Own Budget & Resource Allocation
Drive Organisational Alignment
Manage Platform Demand & Architecture Intake
Drive Platform Alignment
Lead Talent Development & Succession Planning
Establish Performance & Reliability Standards
Lead Strategic Infrastructure Initiatives
Mentor & Develop Leadership
Requirements:
12+ years of engineering experience with 5+ years in architecture leadership roles
Deep technical expertise in distributed systems and infrastructure
Proven track record hiring and developing talent
Experience managing budgets
Strategic thinking and business acumen
Excellent communication across all levels
Strong presence and leadership credibility
Nice to have:
Experience building AI and automation enabled capabilities across an engineering workforce
Background in a high-scale tech company or services business (2M+ daily active users, 100+ managed clients or equivalent)
Experience with multi-regional or multi-cloud infrastructure at enterprise scale
Exposure to security, compliance, and risk management
Public speaking or conference presentation experience
Previous Director or Senior Manager role at a comparable organization
Experience with M&A integration or organisational restructuring