The Role
The role includes strategic leadership for platform infrastructure, ensuring performance, security, and resilience across cloud and on-premises environments, with a focus on operational excellence and compliance.
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Platform Engineering Director
Location: Sheffield / London / Hybrid Working
(Expectation that you will attend an office 2 days per week)
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time 37.5 hours per week/flexible days and/or hours (Mon-Fri)
Salary: Sheffield up to £90,000/London £112,500
Benefits package:
- 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays (pro rata for part time), opportunity to buy and sell holiday
- 15% employer pension contribution, discretionary bonus scheme
- Flexible working, cycle to work scheme, healthcare cash plan and life assurance
- Paid voluntary days, maternity, adoption, and shared parental leave
- Benefits designed to suit your lifestyle - from discounts on retail and socialising, to health and wellbeing, travel, and technology and plenty more
THE ROLE
You will provide strategic leadership for the Bank’s platform and infrastructure estate, accountable for the value, performance, security and resilience of a hybrid environment spanning cloud and on-premises platforms. You will oversee technical and security engineering, the Cloud Centre of Excellence, infrastructure and enterprise application support, the IT Service Desk, and IT product ownership. You will ensure services are designed, delivered and operated to meet organisational needs across all lines of support, from first line teams through to specialist technical subject matter experts.
You will define and deliver platform and infrastructure strategy and target architecture aligned to organisational objectives and technology roadmaps. You will provide architectural oversight of hybrid environments ensuring scalability, security, resilience and cost efficiency. You will lead secure infrastructure design, implementation and operation, including identity and access management, vulnerability remediation, and compliance with security and regulatory standards. You will drive operational excellence across platforms and enterprise applications, including incident and problem management, service restoration, capacity planning, performance optimisation and continual improvement through automation, observability and site reliability engineering practices.
You will act as Product Owner for key platforms and services, defining roadmaps, prioritising enhancements and ensuring delivery of the Platforms book of work with appropriate governance and service acceptance. You will manage change under technical governance, oversee disaster recovery strategy and testing, support audit and regulatory engagement, lead supplier performance management and contract governance, and manage operational and project budgets to optimise cost.
You will bring senior leadership experience across platform engineering and operations in regulated environments, developing multidisciplinary teams and fostering collaboration, transparency and continuous improvement. You will work with stakeholders across the organisation and demonstrate inclusive leadership, customer focus, accountability for outcomes, and commitment to ethical and professional standards.
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Key Benefits
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- 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays, opportunity to buy and sell up to 5 days holiday
- 15% employer pension contribution
- Flexible working
- Cycle to work scheme, healthcare cash plan, Group Income Protection and life assurance
- Paid voluntary days, maternity, paternity, adoption, and shared parental leave
- Benefits designed to suit your lifestyle - from discounts on retail and dining, to health and wellbeing, travel, and technology...and plenty more
About
The British Business Bank is an established and influential institution with a key mission of driving sustainable growth and prosperity throughout the United Kingdom. It plays a vital role in supporting access to finance for smaller businesses, facilitating their development and contributing to the transition towards a net zero economy. Since its inception in 2014, the British Business Bank has functioned as a government-owned economic development bank, operating independently to fulfil its objectives. It collaborates with over 200 delivery partners, including high street, digital, specialist, and challenger banks, venture capital and private debt funds, as well as fintech platforms, to implement its programs effectively. With offices in Sheffield and London, the British Business Bank currently employs approximately 550 individuals. As an organisation that values flexibility, wellbeing and collaboration, the British Business Bank introduced a hybrid-working model in 2020. Our colleagues typically spend an average of 2 days per week working in our offices, striking a balance between the advantages of remote work and the benefits of in-person collaboration. The successful candidate for this role should be able to commute to our office (unless specified). At the British Business Bank, we aim to represent the communities we serve, firmly believing that different perspectives make us stronger. We strongly encourage applications from individuals with varied experiences and backgrounds. As a Disability Confident employer, we commit ourselves to having an inclusive, equitable and accessible recruitment process supporting applicants and employees, making reasonable adjustments whenever it is feasible.
Skills Required
- Senior leadership experience in platform engineering and operations
- Experience in regulated environments
- Ability to define platform infrastructure strategy and architecture
- Strong understanding of incident and problem management
- Skills in service restoration and performance optimization
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The Company
What We Do
The British Business Bank is the UK Government's economic development bank. Its mission is to drive sustainable economic growth by ensuring that smaller businesses across the UK can access the capital they need to start up and grow. It operates by designing, delivering, and managing a range of financial products through delivery partners, addressing market gaps in smaller business finance, and unlocking private capital to fuel innovation and economic prosperity.
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