- Hybrid working: we spend 2 days together a week, with this role based in our Manchester Spinningfields office.
As a Lead Platform Engineer, you’ll shape the backbone of our engineering ecosystem—designing and evolving the platforms that power our products at scale. You’ll lead technical strategy, champion best practices, and enable teams to deliver faster, safer, and smarter. This is a hands-on leadership role where you’ll influence architecture, mentor engineers, and drive innovation in cloud infrastructure, automation, and developer experience.
You’ll guide the evolution of our database products, ensuring secure, performant, and developer-friendly data services, while leading the team through design, delivery, and operational excellence.
Our TechnologyOur platform underpins critically important services, designed for security, scalability, and developer efficiency. We leverage AWS, container orchestration (ECS), and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CDK) to deliver resilient, automated environments. Observability is powered by DataDog, and we’re embracing AI-driven tooling (GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT) to accelerate delivery and improve quality. You’ll help us evolve this ecosystem to support rapid growth and innovation.
How you'll spend your day:- Lead & Inspire: Set technical direction, mentor engineers, and foster a culture of excellence.
- Data Excellence: Champion best practices in database design, enable self-serve tools for developers, and drive smart, scalable data decisions across the Group.
- Design & Deliver: Architect and implement scalable, secure platform solutions that empower product teams.
- Innovate & Improve: Drive continuous improvement in automation, observability, and developer experience.
- Collaborate & Influence: Partner with Product, Security, and Engineering leaders to align platform strategy with business goals.
- Proven experience leading platform or infrastructure engineering teams in a cloud-native environment, with specific experience in data engineering.
- Deep expertise in AWS, infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/CDK), and container orchestration.
- Strong understanding of database technologies (MongoDB, relational DBs) and data modelling.
- Passion for automation, observability, and improving developer experience.
- Comfortable leveraging AI tools to accelerate delivery and improve quality.
- Excellent communicator who can influence technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- A call with one of our Talent Acquisition Team
- An interview consisting of Technical Questions, a System Design Task, and Behavioural Questions focused on leadership and working with others.
- Up to 30 holidays + bank holidays
- Pension up to 6% employer contribution
- Bonus scheme
- Enhanced shared parental leave - 6 months paid for both parents
- Digital Doctor on demand
- Work from anywhere scheme – 2 weeks per year
- Financial coaching
- Mental health platform access
Why us?
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
We're an inclusive, anti-racist and equal opportunity employer that values diversity. This means we respect and embrace differences in gender identity, race, ethnic origin, sexual expression and orientation, religion and faith, age, marital status, disability, neurodiversity, social background, education and way of thinking. We’re a place where you can be you.
Our customers and users come from different backgrounds, as do our colleagues. We welcome applications from everyone, and particularly encourage women and Black, Asian and ethnic minority candidates to apply as we’re actively building representation that’s more closely reflective of the communities we serve. Our appointments are made on merit, following a robust and objective assessment process, and the candidate with the highest score is offered the role. If you’re passionate about our purpose of helping households save money and excited about what you could accomplish here, we’d love to hear from you.
We understand that job adverts only say so much and you’re likely to have a lot of questions. If you’d like to know anything before applying such as more on the location, salary, our parental leave policy etc, please just let us know and we’ll be happy to help. You can contact the recruiter for this role, Tom at [email protected]
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What We Do
MONY Group is the UK’s leading listed tech-based savings platform, supporting not only its own well-trusted brands, MoneySuperMarket, MoneySavingExpert and Quidco, but also those of leading third-party businesses. This expansion beyond the original price comparison website means being named after just one of our consumer brands no longer represents the extent of the business today.
Our new name is MONY Group plc as of Monday 20 May 2024, which aligns with our stock market ticker.
Passionate about our purpose, we’re driven to help our customers and users save money, every day. So, we value willpower, and the tenacity to take on challenges and push ideas through. In return, we’ve created an environment where those with spirit and drive will really shine.
We’re open-minded and value differences and opinions. We work hard to make sure everyone feels they belong. And we’re committed to creating an environment where our people can excel both professionally and personally.
Driven by our customers and users, the market and each other, we work hard. But it’s worth it. Because even better than the flexibility, support and career growth is the feeling we get from seeing the impact we have on millions of UK households to save money.
What we do together is beyond comparison.
We're home to amazing brands and over 600 talented colleagues. You might be familiar with our brands - and maybe you've even used some of our services.
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