- Company Name
- Sofico
- Job Title
- Senior Platform Engineering Lead (m/f/d)
- Job Description
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**Job Title:** Senior Platform Engineering Lead (m/f/d)
**Role Summary:**
Lead the design, implementation, and operation of enterprise platform services that power a global product portfolio, ensuring reliability, scalability, and rapid delivery for product teams and external developers.
**Expectations:**
- Own and grow high‑performing engineering teams across shared services, integration, AI/data, and infrastructure.
- Collaborate closely with product, architecture, and customer stakeholders to deliver platform evolution that meets real‑world needs.
- Drive engineering excellence through process standardization, quality metrics, and continuous improvement.
**Key Responsibilities:**
- Build and mentor delivery teams; cultivate ownership, accountability, and high quality.
- Partner with product managers and architects to set platform direction and align on user requirements.
- Standardize cross‑functional processes; enforce modern engineering practices and automation.
- Ensure on‑time delivery, high product quality, and adherence to bug‑resolution SLAs.
- Define, track, and report engineering metrics; act on data to enhance developer productivity.
- Collaborate with CTO and business leadership to formulate platform strategy and architectural roadmap.
- Advocate for intuitive APIs, scalable frameworks, and seamless integration with external partners.
**Required Skills:**
- 10+ years of software engineering leadership, including at least 5 years in senior/director roles.
- Proven ability to manage teams across multiple platform domains (shared services, integration frameworks, data/AI, etc.).
- Deep knowledge of enterprise software architecture, cloud‑native systems, microservices, and scalability.
- Strong expertise in DevOps, CI/CD, automated testing, monitoring, and observability.
- Strategic thinking with the ability to balance long‑term platform investments against delivery commitments.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and team‑building abilities.
**Required Education & Certifications:**
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.
- Relevant certifications (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD) are a plus.