Head of Platform Engineering

Head of Platform Engineering - London Fintech - £150,000–£200,000 Package

A fast-growing, VC/PE-backed fintech in London is looking for a Head of Platform Engineering to take ownership of its cloud platform as the business scales into new markets internationally.

This is a genuine build-and-lead role. You'll take a platform that’s already live and growing fast, and shape where it goes next: architecture, team, standards, and the roadmap for reliability and scale as the company expands into new regions over the next 12 to 24 months.

What you’ll be doing

• Owning the cloud platform end-to-end: architecture, reliability, and the roadmap for scaling it as the business grows
• Building and leading a platform engineering function, setting technical direction and hiring as the team grows
• Working closely with the leadership team to align infrastructure investment with business priorities
• Championing modern engineering practices, including automation, observability, and security-by-design, across the wider engineering org
• Acting as a senior technical voice in the business, translating platform decisions into commercial impact

What we’re looking for

• Proven experience leading or owning a cloud platform at a growing tech business, ideally within fintech or another fast-moving, high-stakes environment
• A track record of building platform teams and practices from the ground up, not just maintaining what’s already there
• Comfortable operating strategically with leadership while staying close enough to the detail to make good technical calls
• Someone who’s genuinely energised by scaling infrastructure alongside a growing business, not just running steady-state operations

The offer

• £150,000 to £200,000 total package, including bonus and equity
• Hybrid working, with flexibility around onsite days
• A rare opportunity to shape the platform function at a business still early enough that your decisions will define how it scales

Interested, or know someone who might be? Get in touch.