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The Platform Technical Lead is a senior technical authority within the Digital & IT organisation, responsible for driving engineering excellence, shaping technical execution, and guiding multiple squads in delivering high‑quality, cloud‑native platform capabilities. This role translates architectural direction into practical technical implementation, ensures teams follow best‑practice engineering patterns, and provides hands‑on leadership across backend services, APIs, integrations, and shared platform components. Operating across Digital & IT, Networks, Product, Security, and Platform Engineering teams, the Platform Technical Lead ensures coherent engineering delivery, accelerates the adoption of modern engineering practices, and supports the development of secure, scalable, enterprise‑grade Digital & IT platforms.
Job Responsibility:
Providing technical leadership and hands‑on guidance across multiple squads (40–70+ FTE influence), ensuring consistent engineering standards, design patterns, and high‑quality implementation across the Digital & IT platform
Informing and influencing multi‑million‑euro engineering investment decisions, including tooling, automation, infrastructure, and technical capability uplift across the delivery organisation
Mentoring and enabling senior engineers, Technical Leads, and DevOps specialists, championing modern engineering practices such as CI/CD, automation, observability, reliability, secure‑by‑design, and event‑driven architectures
Driving cross‑organisational technical forums, resolving major engineering risks, and ensuring strong alignment with architectural guardrails and platform evolution roadmaps
Requirements:
MSc or equivalent in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Telecommunications, or related field
10+ years engineering experience with at least 5 years in senior/principal technical leadership roles
Deep expertise in cloud‑native architectures, microservices, event‑driven systems, API‑first design, distributed systems, and modern DevOps/SRE practices
Strong hands‑on experience with CI/CD pipelines, observability frameworks, infrastructure‑as‑code, container orchestration, and platform engineering
Demonstrated success leading engineering delivery across multi‑squad, multi‑market or large‑scale digital platform environments