Director of Platform Engineering
Civica UK Ltd, United Kingdom
Job Description
We’re Civica and we make software that helps deliver critical services for citizens all around the world. From local government to central government, to education, to health and care, over 5,000 public bodies across the globe use our software to help provide critical services to over 100 million citizens.
Our aspiration is to be a GovTech champion everywhere we work around the globe, supporting the needs of citizens and those that serve them every day. Building on 21 years of continuous growth and success, we're at a pivotal point on our journey to realise that aspiration.
As a company, we’re passionate about what we do and the citizens we help to serve. If you too would like to help champion the use of technology in public services, to improve outcomes for citizens and public sector organisations, then Civica is the right place for you. We will help you unlock the best version of yourself, achieve growth in your career whilst making a real difference to people and communities.
About the Role
As Director of Platform at Civica, you will be a technology leader responsible for ensuring that our tools and technologies enable engineers to build software efficiently, safely, and of high quality. We’re on a journey of modernisation, and you’ll be working with teams using a mixture of legacy and modern approaches to technology and development.
You’ll own the strategic direction of our new internal developer platform, ensuring that we have the right people, processes and tools in place to deliver.
You’ll be a pragmatic, kind and effective leader, able to build and nurture a team that can deliver on your vision. You’ll bring clarity to your teams and to stakeholders in a fast-paced and ambiguous environment.
What you will be doing
As a leader, building and managing a balanced and effective platform organisation, working closely with peers and stakeholders in product, development, and infrastructure.
Using your expertise in modern development methodologies, platforms and processes to enable efficient, safe and high quality product development
As a strategist, owning the platform roadmap, and creating a clear path to deliver on the shared platform vision
Making data-driven decisions, and presenting data to secure buy-in and investment for your initiatives
Building strong relationships with leaders in areas such as product, security, engineering and compliance to ensure the best outcomes
Requirements
We’d like you to have experience with
Managing multiple platform teams in a large global organisation , across multiple territories and time zones (UK, India, APAC, and AMER)
Building platform teams from the ground up, and bringing product and development organisations on a modernisation journey
Managing teams supporting modern software development organisations; implementing platforms as a bespoke internal service
Delivering critical technical programmes in challenging technical landscapes
Working with leaders and engineers to create alignment across large tech organisations
Managing stakeholders up, down, and across seniority levels
Coaching and mentoring senior managers
Some technologies that we use
.NET, C#, Angular, Java, PHP
MSSQL, PostgreSQL
Azure (AKS, VMs, Azure SQL, Functions, and more)
AWS (EKS, EC2, RDS, Lamba, and more)
Sonarqube
Veracode
Datadog
Terraform
You should apply if you
Thrive with a high degree of autonomy and accountability
Are an innovative technologist, able to deliver solutions to complex problems
Are comfortable with ambiguity, working in a large organisation with a mix of modern and legacy processes and technologies
Are people focused, and care about both those who work for you and those who’s everyday lives your work effects
Benefits
Life at Civica:Life at Civica is fun and flexible. We have the following benefits that make us one of the top employers of choice and a great place to work.
Civica Foundation | Giving Culture:Weencourageour people to takeadvantage of our Days of Difference initiative that makes a lasting impact in the community through goodness and charity.
Civica Culture | Work life balance and Blended working: Flexible working, less commuting and more time with friends and family gives a perfect work life balance to our people.
Learning and Development | Growth Opportunities:Civica has a unique 70:20:10 learning model, which supports your learning demands in an interesting, challenging amp; fun way!
Benefits
- Employee Wellbeing:Being a people-first company, we have integrated health and wellbeing benefits for