Platform Engineering Team Lead

Job Title

Platform Engineering Team Lead

Job Description

Join the game-changers

You will be joining our welcoming, collaborative Platform Enablement Team which is enabling IG to deliver more with better quality and great consistency while adhering to industry best practices.

Who we are

We’ve been changing the financial services game since we were founded in 1974, when we invented a whole new category of trading. Today, we’re the world’s No.1 spread betting and CFD provider, with operations in 20 countries across five continents and over 400,000 active clients worldwide. But we know our success is only possible because of our people, who we encourage and empower to be brave, determined and inventive. Join us if you’d like to work in an inclusive, collaborative team that will recognise your talent and allow it to shine.

Where you’ll work

As part of our hybrid working environment, you’ll split your time between home and the office. In this way, you’ll be able to enjoy a better work-life balance and always bring your best self to your role. At the office, you’ll have access to everything you’d expect from a world-class employer, such as a modern working environment, agile spaces, private quiet rooms and breakout areas. Plus, all our offices are located in iconic city centres, close to everything you might need for a rewarding working experience.

While you will be based in our Krakow office, you will be working with our IT teams in Bengaluru and London. Join IG, and you will be joining the best in an always-moving industry. We are constantly improving and developing our backend systems making sure we are at the front of the market from technology and quality of work perspective.

Your role in the team’s success 

As Platform Engineering Manager, you’ll lead the team responsible for designing, building, and evolving the internal platforms that power software delivery across IG. These platforms provide the automation, pipelines, configuration management, and private-cloud patterns that underpin how applications are built, deployed, and operated. 

You’ll ensure that the platform offers a cohesive, compelling experience for developers — one that integrates the full range of build, deployment, and operational capabilities into a seamless and intuitive product. Your mission is to make our delivery platform secure, reliable, and frictionless, enabling engineers to move faster with confidence and compliance. 

This is a platform engineering role in the truest sense: building and running reusable, self-service capabilities that empower product teams. You’ll bring a product mindset — understanding customer needs, collecting feedback, experimenting, and demonstrating value through measurable outcomes such as adoption, satisfaction, and delivery speed. 

What you’ll do 

Leadership & Strategy 

• Lead, develop, and inspire a team of platform engineers who build and operate shared services for CI/CD, automation, configuration management, and private-cloud enablement. 

• Define and communicate a clear platform vision and roadmap aligned with IG’s technology and business priorities. 

• Apply product-led thinking: engage directly with development teams to understand their needs, measure experience quality, and deliver improvements that make their work faster and safer. 

• Foster a culture of engineering excellence, continuous learning, and open feedback loops. 

• Balance innovation with operational reliability and compliance requirements. 

Technical Direction 

• Oversee the design and delivery of platform services that enable continuous integration, deployment automation, secure configuration, and environment management. 

• Define and evolve reusable, secure, and compliant patterns for private cloud infrastructure, ensuring alignment with public-cloud standards. 

• Lead the strategy for configuration management and automation tooling to standardise deployments and reduce operational risk. 

• Ensure all platform components are observable, performant, and appropriately designed for their runtime environments, including traditional and containerised workloads. 

• Champion developer experience and adoption by simplifying interfaces, providing clear documentation, and ensuring consistency across the engineering ecosystem. 

• Maintain strong operational foundations through expertise in Linux-based platforms (RHEL/CentOS), ensuring reliability, security, and lifecycle management across environments. 

Delivery & Operations 

• Ensure operational excellence for all platform components: performance, availability, incident response, and lifecycle management. 

• Use metrics such as DORA measures, adoption rates, and developer satisfaction to guide investment and demonstrate value. 

• Manage team performance, delivery priorities, and stakeholder engagement across application engineering, infrastructure, and security functions. 

• Oversee vendor integrations (e.g., GitLab, Artifactory, Venafi, F5, Akamai, Atlassian suite) to ensure quality and maintainability. 

What you’ll bring 

Essential Experience 

• Proven experience leading platform engineering teams that build shared services and developer enablement platforms. 

• Strong background in automation, CI/CD, configuration management, and Linux-based operating systems (RHEL/CentOS). 

• Demonstrated experience defining and delivering private-cloud infrastructure patterns at enterprise scale. 

• Excellent understanding of modern software delivery practices, deployment automation, and secure configuration. 

• Strong collaboration skills and the ability to translate technical vision into business impact. 

• Experience using engineering effectiveness or developer-experience metrics to drive improvement. 

• Credibility to lead both technically and strategically — able to discuss architectural trade-offs, but also focus the team on outcomes. 

Highly Desirable 

• Experience in regulated industries such as financial services or fintech. 

• Background in developer experience platforms, such as internal developer portals (e.g., Backstage or similar). 

• Familiarity with DORA metrics and platform product management practices. 

• Strong understanding of secure software delivery, risk management, and audit expectations. 

What success looks like 

• Developers find the platform intuitive and reliable — adoption grows organically. 

• Delivery speed improves without sacrificing stability or compliance. 

• Platform metrics and developer feedback demonstrate measurable value. 

• The platform engineering team is motivated, trusted, and outcomes-focused. 

• The platform is recognised internally as a key enabler of IG’s technology strategy. 

Why this role matters 

The Platform Engineering team sits at the centre of how IG builds and ships software. You’ll lead a group that makes development simpler, safer, and faster for every engineer in the company. By treating the platform as a product and the developer as a customer, you’ll help transform the way IG delivers technology — driving speed, quality, and satisfaction across the engineering organisation.