Platform Engineering Manager

Langley Mill
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Platform Engineering Manager

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As a key part of our Platform IPT roadmap, the Platform Engineering Manager will be responsible for leading the execution and performance of infrastructure delivery projects, ensuring technical initiatives align with business value and contribute meaningfully to the platform strategy.

This role is about making things happen—driving measurable outcomes, maintaining delivery momentum, and ensuring our platform engineering teams are operating at a high level of capability and accountability. You'll oversee delivery of infrastructure, automation, and platform modernisation projects, while also owning team development and capability tracking across multiple specialist disciplines.

What you will be doing:

  • Own delivery tracking and team performance across infrastructure and platform engineering teams

  • Report regularly to the Head of Platform Engineering on progress, risks, and impact across all active Platform Engineering initiatives

  • Ensure delivery of roadmap-aligned platform projects by structuring work clearly, managing dependencies, and resolving blockers quickly

  • Partner with Product and Programme leadership to ensure team structure, training, and tooling are in place to meet roadmap demand

  • Monitor and develop team capability using structured review processes, including skills matrixes and progression ladders

  • Promote a culture of delivery excellence, engineering discipline, and personal accountability

  • Encourage cross-team alignment on shared technical goals, such as implementation of DSC, observability standards, and automation

  • Support long-term platform value creation by ensuring projects are not only delivered but deliver measurable benefit to the organisation

    What we are looking for:

  • Demonstrable technical experience within a Microsoft Stack software engineering environment, or a data engineering environment

  • Proficient in Agile development methodologies with relevant qualifications

  • A proven people manager, managing a software development team, with the ability to lead and motivate a team of skilled engineers

  • A team-oriented individual with a passion for engineered excellence

  • Working knowledge of all the functional areas involved in the Software Development Lifecycle

  • Effective communication skills and the ability to build good working relationships at all levels

  • Empathy with the Product functions tasks

  • Awareness of Wardley Mapping

  • Awareness of SRE practices

    Why Microlise?

    When your groceries arrive at your door or you sign for your online parcel, one or more of our software, telematics or proof-of-purchase solutions has probably been used. Our solutions deliver value to many of the UK’s leading grocery retailers and food logistics providers as well as to household names including JCB, Eddie Stobart, Carlsberg, Waitrose, and Royal Mail.

    Proudly Midlands-based, Microlise has been operating for over thirty years, and recently became a Publicly Listed Company with shares trading on the London Stock Exchange. Our growing business is guided by our culture which drives the way we behave, the way we work, the way we connect with our customers, and the way we support and develop our people.

  • Full support and training to ensure you are well equipped to succeed in your role

  • Private medical insurance with Vitality Health including rewards for members such as: Free Amazon Prime, Apple Watch, discounted gym membership and many more

  • 33 days holiday, including bank holidays, increasing year on year to 38 days, then further increases with length of service

  • Life Assurance, 4 times your annual salary

  • Free Costco membership, 20% off EE mobile and line rental, and other discounts with Reward Gateway

  • Invested in employee health and well-being with over 20 mental health first aiders in the business

  • Employee Assistance Programmes

  • Great staff extras: Easter eggs, yearly BBQ, Christmas gifts, annual staff awards and many more incentives

  • Free Microlise Cresswell Racing Tickets, support British Superbikes

  • Executive Box at Motorpoint Arena Nottingham

  • Great Place to Work™ certified – We have been recognised by the global authority on workplace culture, so come be a part of our success

  • Best Workplace in the UK™ for Development, Technology, Wellbeing and Women

    Recruitment Process

    For successful candidates, interviews will take place whilst the advert is still live; so don’t delay getting your application in!

    Recruitment Agencies

    Whilst we make every effort to directly source candidates for our live roles, we do have a very small preferred supplier list on the occasion we may require additional support. We therefore do not accept speculative CVs and/or cold calls to our Recruitment Team or Hiring Managers

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