Salary: £35,000 - 60,000 per year Requirements: I have over 20 years of experience in building and maintaining applications, with a strong focus on performance, scalability, security, and reliability. I possess more than 7 years of experience overseeing enterprise-grade platform solutions. I am familiar with highly Agile continuous integration and continuous deployment environments, preferably within the financial domain. I have strong experience in Java/J2EE, Spring Boot, Mule, web services, Kafka, SQL, and PL/SQL (Oracle). I have extensive knowledge of XML and JSON and their usage within API and Microservice implementations at scale. I have significant expertise in cloud-native deployment using OpenShift, Kubernetes, or any comparable container platform. I have experience maintaining on-premises environments, containerized applications, and hybrid cloud solutions. I am proficient with leading app servers and integration technologies like Mule ESB, Anypoint Platform, MQ, and Kafka. I have experience using APM tools such as Splunk, Dynatrace, or AppDynamics. I demonstrate a proven ability to leverage knowledge of infrastructure automation, DevOps, cloud technologies, and platform architecture to build resilient, scalable, and maintainable solutions. I have experience implementing best practices, optimizing performance, ensuring compliance with security standards, and providing leadership to the engineering team. I possess strong verbal and written communication skills, enabling me to engage with a technical audience on low-level details and explain concepts at a high level to a non-technical audience. Responsibilities: I will be responsible for leading the engineering team, ensuring that we build and maintain high-quality platform solutions. I will oversee the implementation of best practices and optimization of performance across our applications. I will ensure our solutions comply with security standards and are resilient against various challenges. I will collaborate within an Agile environment to drive continuous integration and deployment efforts. I will employ my expertise in cloud-native deployment and on-premises environments to enhance our applications' scalability and maintainability. Technologies: API Cloud DevOps Dynatrace ESB JSON Java Kafka Kubernetes OpenShift Oracle SQL Security Splunk Spring Spring Boot Web XML Java EE More: We are excited to welcome a Platform Engineering Lead to our team located in Bromley, UK. In this role, you will play a crucial part in enhancing our platforms while leading our engineering efforts to achieve excellence in application performance and security. Your extensive background will be key to driving our strategic goals forward, and we look forward to your contributions in this dynamic environment. last updated 4 week of 2026