Senior Platform Engineering Lead
Momentum Metropolitan Holdings Limited · Centurion, Gauteng
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- AWS cloud platforms and landing zones
- GitLab CI/CD and DevSecOps tooling
- Backstage Developer Portal
- Kubernetes and container platforms
- Infrastructure as Code platforms
- Observability platforms Datadog, OpenTelemetry, Grafana
- Identity and Access Management platforms
- API and Integration platforms
- Shared engineering services and platform products
- Enterprise architecture standards and technology roadmaps
Minimum Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or relateddiscipline.
- 10+ years experience across software engineering, cloud engineering, platform engineering or architecture.
- 3+ years experience in a senior platform architecture or platform engineering leadership role.
- Experience building and operating enterprise-scale cloud platforms.
- Experience defining platform standards and engineering guardrails.
- Experience leading cross-functional technical initiatives.
Preferred
- Financial Services or Insurance industry experience.
- AWS certifications.
Duties & Responsibilities
Platform Strategy and Roadmap
- Define and maintain the platform capability model.
- Develop platform target architectures and roadmaps.
- Identify technology opportunities and platform improvements.
- Guide long-term platform investment decisions.
- Support enterprise modernisation initiatives.
Outputs
- Platform strategy
- Platform roadmaps
- Platform capability maps
- Technology lifecycle plans
- Platform investment recommendations
Developer Experience
- Improve developer productivity through platform capabilities.
- Promote self-service engineering practices.
- Lead Backstage adoption and evolution.
- Support reusable engineering templates and golden paths.
Outputs
- Platform onboarding journeys
- Backstage catalog structures
- Self-service capabilities
- Engineering accelerators
- Golden path guidance
Platform Guardrails
Define measurable platform guardrails covering
- Security
- Operational supportability
- Deployability
- Observability
- Resilience
- Compliance
- Cost management
Focus on automated enforcement wherever possible.
Outputs
- Platform guardrails
- Policy-as-Code controls
- Compliance dashboards
- Conformance scorecards
- Platform standards
Technical Leadership
- Provide architectural guidance to Platform Engineers.
- Facilitate technical decision-making.
- Mentor technical leads and engineers.
- Lead platform architecture communities and forums.
- Resolve cross-platform architectural concerns.
Outputs
- Platform Architecture reviews
- Technical coaching
- Platform engineering guidance
- Community of practice leadership
Operational Excellence
- Partner with Production Engineering and SRE teams.
- Improve platform resilience and operability.
- Ensure observability standards are implemented.
- Reduce operational toil through automation.
Outputs
- Reliability improvements
- Operational readiness standards
- Platform telemetry standards
- Recovery and resilience designs
Key Accountabilities
The role is accountable for
- Platform architecture strategy
- Platform product ownership models
- Platform guardrails and standards
- Platform reference architectures
- Cloud platform architectures
- Developer platform architecture
- Platform lifecycle management
- Platform engineering technical leadership
- Platform capability adoption
- Platform reliability and resilience
- The role is not accountable for business solution architecture delivery.
Competencies
- Platform product management
- Cloud architecture
- Systems thinking
- Architecture leadership
- Engineering enablement
- Platform governance
- Stakeholder management
- Cost optimisation
- Security enablement
- DevOps and Platform Engineering practices