Sr Director, Platform Engineering – Data Platform & Agentic Platform
On-siteFarringdon, England, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Job Summary
Lead engineering delivery for shared platform services and data capabilities consumed by multiple product domains, translating product requirements into scalable technical designs and executable delivery plans. Build and operate ingestion, integration, and modernization capabilities that improve consistency and reuse of IP data, while implementing canonical data contracts and APIs with defined versioning and backward compatibility. Operate agent workflow platform capabilities aligned to product standards, including traceability, state handling, and convergence patterns. Establish production-grade evaluation, observability, auditability, and guardrail mechanisms for safe AI workflows, alongside security controls and access governance in partnership with InfoSec. Provide capacity forecasts, sequencing options, and delivery risk assessments to support platform roadmap decisions.
Required Qualifications
- 12+ years leading platform engineering teams delivering shared services or large-scale SaaS systems with production operations accountability
- Demonstrated success building and operating platforms adopted by multiple product teams, including reliability discipline (SLOs), observability, and incident management
- Strong hands-on technical leadership background in distributed systems and platform engineering
- Deep experience with data platform engineering at scale, including ingestion and integration patterns, data quality enforcement, metadata and lineage, and secure access controls
- Experience enabling AI-powered systems in production, including evaluation, monitoring, observability, auditability, and guardrails
- Strong ability to partner with product leaders on contract-driven platforms and deliver outcomes without creating bottlenecks
- Proven capability to hire and develop high-performing engineering teams, including AI platform engineers
- Experience building AI workflow platforms or shared AI platform services, including orchestration and production-grade monitoring
Desired Qualifications
- familiarity with runtime safety patterns and operating regulated or high-trust systems is advantageous
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