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Platform Engineering Manager
United Kingdom. Posted 3 months ago
The role
You will lead and grow a platform engineering team focused on developer experience and productivity. You will drive roadmaps for CI/CD pipelines, developer workflows, and AI-powered platform tooling.
What you will do
- Lead a platform engineering team and drive roadmaps for CI/CD pipelines, developer workflows, and internal developer tooling.
- Build a self-service developer experience by integrating capabilities from across platform groups.
- Own capacity planning and define right-sized architecture patterns and templates.
- Lead development of AI-powered platform tooling and agent-based workflows.
- Partner with Engineering, Infrastructure, Security Engineering, and Product to prioritize platform investments.
- Coach and develop engineers through frequent feedback and technical guidance.
- Communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Required qualifications
- 1-2 years of experience directly managing software engineers or serving in a technical program management role.
- 3-5 years of hands-on software engineering experience (e.g., Go, Python) building developer productivity tools or internal developer platforms.
- Strong understanding of underlying systems, infrastructure, and cloud technologies (e.g., Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, distributed systems).
- Experience with capacity planning or designing right-sized architecture patterns and templates.
- Familiarity with SRE practices.
- Experience leading teams in a high-velocity, iterative environment.
- Experience leading or working with globally distributed engineering teams across multiple time zones.
- Strong communication skills.
- Experience using AI tools for planning and execution.
- Familiarity with AI-assisted coding tools such as GitHub Copilot or Cursor.
- Comfort using AI to support day-to-day management and program management work.
- Familiarity with large language model APIs and agent-based workflows.
About the company
Precisely is a global leader in data quality, data enrichment, and location intelligence. It is an AI-first organization that helps brands make decisions with reliable data.