Senior Platform Engineering Lead at Momentum Metropolitan Holdings Limited

The role operates across:


AWS cloud platforms and landing zones
GitLab CI/CD and DevSecOps tooling
Backstage Developer Portal
Kubernetes and container platforms
Infrastructure as Code platforms
Observability platforms (Datadog, OpenTelemetry, Grafana)
Identity and Access Management platforms
API and Integration platforms
Shared engineering services and platform products
Enterprise architecture standards and technology roadmaps


Minimum Requirements


Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or relateddiscipline.
10+ years experience across software engineering, cloud engineering, platform engineering or architecture.
3+ years experience in a senior platform architecture or platform engineering leadership role.
Experience building and operating enterprise-scale cloud platforms.
Experience defining platform standards and engineering guardrails.
Experience leading cross-functional technical initiatives.


Preferred


Financial Services or Insurance industry experience.
AWS certifications.


Duties & Responsibilities

Platform Strategy and Roadmap


Define and maintain the platform capability model.
Develop platform target architectures and roadmaps.
Identify technology opportunities and platform improvements.
Guide long-term platform investment decisions.
Support enterprise modernisation initiatives.


Outputs


Platform strategy
Platform roadmaps
Platform capability maps
Technology lifecycle plans
Platform investment recommendations


Developer Experience


Improve developer productivity through platform capabilities.
Promote self-service engineering practices.
Lead Backstage adoption and evolution.
Support reusable engineering templates and golden paths.


Outputs


Platform onboarding journeys
Backstage catalog structures
Self-service capabilities
Engineering accelerators
Golden path guidance


Platform Guardrails

Define measurable platform guardrails covering:


Security
Operational supportability
Deployability
Observability
Resilience
Compliance
Cost management


Focus on automated enforcement wherever possible.

Outputs


Platform guardrails
Policy-as-Code controls
Compliance dashboards
Conformance scorecards
Platform standards


Technical Leadership


Provide architectural guidance to Platform Engineers.
Facilitate technical decision-making.
Mentor technical leads and engineers.
Lead platform architecture communities and forums.
Resolve cross-platform architectural concerns.


Outputs


Platform Architecture reviews
Technical coaching
Platform engineering guidance
Community of practice leadership


Operational Excellence


Partner with Production Engineering and SRE teams.
Improve platform resilience and operability.
Ensure observability standards are implemented.
Reduce operational toil through automation.


Outputs


Reliability improvements
Operational readiness standards
Platform telemetry standards
Recovery and resilience designs


Key Accountabilities

The role is accountable for:


Platform architecture strategy
Platform product ownership models
Platform guardrails and standards
Platform reference architectures
Cloud platform architectures
Developer platform architecture
Platform lifecycle management
Platform engineering technical leadership
Platform capability adoption
Platform reliability and resilience
The role is not accountable for business solution architecture delivery.


Competencies


Platform product management
Cloud architecture
Systems thinking
Architecture leadership
Engineering enablement
Platform governance
Stakeholder management
Cost optimisation
Security enablement
DevOps and Platform Engineering practices