Platform Engineering is the centralised team that builds, provisions and runs the infrastructure every other engineering team at Allica depends on. Whether a product serves a business banking customer or a colleague inside the bank, it lands on a platform this team designed. The team owns both halves of that, building the platform and running it, against the availability and resilience standards a regulated bank is held to. Well-architected is the operating standard, not an aspiration: reliability, security, cost and operational excellence are design inputs from the start.
The job is to make the right thing the easy thing, through paved roads, self-service provisioning, sensible defaults, and controls encoded in the platform rather than bolted on afterwards. Every control the platform enforces is one a product team does not have to think about, and one we can evidence on demand. Role Description The Lead Platform Engineer is the senior technical leader for a core domain of Allica’s platform. You set its technical direction, you are accountable for how it behaves in production, and you build it yourself.
This is a hands-on role. Expect to spend a real share of your week in infrastructure as code, pipelines and live systems, and the rest setting standards, reviewing designs and making the calls that are too consequential to delegate. Your customers are internal. Product engineering and data engineering choose whether to use what you build, so adoption and the friction you remove are the measures that matter.