Senior Director of Platform & Data Engineering
On-site · Reading, England, United Kingdom
Job Summary
Senior Director leads platform & data engineering for Keyloop, shaping the cloud-native SaaS platform across multiple product lines. Responsibilities include building and mentoring a distributed engineering team; defining and executing the platform strategy with security-by-design, reliability, and API-first principles; evolving the shared services, API gateway, and internal developer platform; delivering data & AI capabilities (data lakes, pipelines, feature stores, MLOps) and enabling AI-driven product initiatives; enabling an agentic software development lifecycle with AI tooling; ensuring observability, FinOps, and governance; driving integration and acquisition-related platform standardization; partnering with CTO and executive stakeholders to align platform capabilities with business priorities. Required skills cover deep AWS platform engineering, IaC, containerization, event streaming, API ecosystems, data platforms, AI tooling, security/compliance, and senior leadership experience.
Required Qualifications
- Technical & Architectural experience with cloud-native platform engineering on AWS
- IaC (Terraform or Pulumi)
- Kubernetes/ECS
- Kafka
- API gateway patterns
- Experience designing/shared platform services
- Data platform engineering experience
- Snowflake, Databricks, AWS data services (Athena, Glue, EMR)
- AI/ML infrastructure (feature stores, MLOps)
- Observability (OpenTelemetry)
- Security and compliance (ISO 27001, SOC 2)
- Zero-trust patterns
- Leadership of large distributed teams
- Experience with M&A technical integration
- Familiarity with SAFe/Shape Up or similar
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