Distinguished Engineer – Cloud Platforms And Integrations

Description:

The CEPO leadership will ensure platform services are strategic and develop into an efficient and reliable platform office. CEPO will have nine platform services that deliver critical national infrastructure to CDIO, HMRC and other government departments, and two supporting functions that provide key operational, governance, ways of working and practice management. The nine platform services consist of strategic ownership of core and enabling infrastructure, these are provided in the following paragraph:

This role spans our Enterprise Cloud Platform and Integration Platform, both of which empower delivery teams to build and innovate in the cloud. Our goal is to enhance the value delivery teams derive from these platforms by simplifying core foundations, expanding service offerings, and enabling pattern consumption through an Internal Developer Platform delivered in a self-service model. We will measure our progress throughout the journey, ensuring continuous reflection and refinement of our approach.

Our integration platform runs a number of smaller platforms within, but at it’s core is an API integration layer, simplifying access to source legacy source systems (that we aim to migrate away from in time). It’s a complex set of engineering

challenges. Both platforms aim to be fully self service.

This role will help drive technical excellence throughout our approaches, be that strategy, service selection or how we build and run services. It will drive strategy but also help enhance our engineering capability.

The role will be hands on, dropping in to trouble shoot or pair up on challenges as required.

Person specification

• Skilled in setting a strategic forward vision for a large, complex organisation with strong platform and delivery expertise, anticipating the long term impact of technological development on the organisation and working collaboratively with diverse stakeholders, managed service providers, and complex supplier ecosystems to deliver end-to-end digital services.
• Inclusive leadership skills with ability to lead people and teams through change in a complex operational environment, advocating professional development of a diverse and talented workforce and nurturing high performance of teams.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills and experience of building effective partnerships across a range of internal and external senior leaders and stakeholders, with a keen focus on leading, influencing and motivating technical teams in own Portfolio and across government, security and OEM partners, often without direct authority.
• Extensive hands-on cloud knowledge, demonstrating a breadth of technical knowledge, ideally serving customers at scale.
• Agile ways of working and continuous delivery (experience of running a platform delivering 1000s of changes without central gated control). Awareness of ITIL, IT Service Management and critical incident response.