Head of Platforms

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The Head of Platforms is responsible for defining and delivering the enterprise platform strategy and ensuring the effective operation, security, resilience and lifecycle management of technology platforms.

The role provides leadership across cloud, infrastructure, networking, identity, end user computing and core technology services, ensuring platforms remain secure, compliant, available and fit for purpose.

Operating within a heavily regulated environment, the role ensures technology platforms support business operations through robust engineering standards, operational effectiveness and continuous improvement.

A key focus is maximising the value of existing technology platforms, reducing complexity and technical debt, and ensuring that the adoption of new platform capabilities delivers measurable business value while meeting regulatory, security and architectural standards.

The role works closely with business leaders, risk and compliance functions, and technology partners to deliver secure, resilient and scalable platform services while maintaining strong governance and operational control.

• Platform Strategy & Engineering
  • Own the enterprise platform strategy and technology roadmap, ensuring platform capabilities support current and future business requirements.
  • Lead the design, engineering and continual evolution of enterprise platforms, including cloud, infrastructure, networking, identity, end user computing and collaboration technologies.
  • Drive platform modernisation, standardisation and automation initiatives to improve resilience, scalability, security and operational efficiency.
  • Establish engineering standards, reference architectures and governance controls to ensure platforms are delivered consistently and aligned with enterprise architecture principles.
  • Evaluate emerging technologies and platform capabilities, ensuring investment decisions deliver measurable business value and support strategic objectives.
• Platform Operations & Service Enablement
  • Provide senior accountability for the operation and performance of enterprise technology platforms.
  • Ensure platform services remain secure, available, compliant and fit for purpose through effective operational management and engineering oversight.
  • Lead the delivery and operation of cloud platforms, data centres, server infrastructure, storage, networking, end user computing, collaboration technologies and identity services.
  • Work closely with service management functions to ensure platform services support business operations and meet agreed service levels.
• Reliability, Resilience & Technical Recovery
  • Ensure platform availability, resilience and recoverability meet business, regulatory and operational requirements.
  • Own platform capacity planning, performance management, backup and recovery capabilities, ensuring services can support current and future demand.
  • Lead disaster recovery planning, testing and continual improvement activities to maintain organisational preparedness.
  • Provide technical leadership during major incidents, including investigation, root cause analysis, engineering remediation and implementation of permanent corrective actions.
  • Drive continuous improvement through the…