Platform Technical Lead at Mindera

At Mindera, we craft software with people we love. 💛

We’re looking for a Platform Technical Lead to join our team!

We are seeking a Platform Technical Lead to join our Fintech team to manage and enhance our client's platform modernisation. This role is critical for ensuring the scalability, security, and efficiency of the platform. The Platform Technical Lead is expected to help establish and lead a team of skilled Platform (DevOps and DataOps) Engineers, focusing on the implementation of new cloud platforms, as an enabler to increase the velocity and efficiency of change and innovation.

Within this role, you will be required to enhance platform capabilities, guiding on platform enablement and adoption strategy. You will be in charge of shaping the platform roadmap, evaluating and implementing new service component capabilities, in order to create the foundational services for application teams to develop their solutions. It is also essential to build strong relationships and proactively communicate with team members and client stakeholders across the organisation.

HOW YOU’LL MAKE AN IMPACT:

• Overseeing the design, development and maintenance of the platform infrastructure;
• Ensuring the platform meets high standards of performance, security, and scalability; Maintaining governance controls and enforcing standards and best practices across development teams;
• Leading the migration of platform components to the cloud;
• Developing and enforcing infrastructure standards and best practices;
• Developing CI/CD pipelines, Azure CI/CD Pipelines, branching standards and coding standards for cloud infrastructure; Allowing services to be implemented through DevOps and automation;
• Implementing monitoring and alerting systems to ensure platform health and performance;
• Providing technical leadership and mentorship to the platform team, including capacity management, service management, environment management, user and licensing management and security controls;
• Collaborating with development and operations teams to ensure seamless integration;

• The role will also require extensive knowledge transfer and coaching to build a culture of DevOps and industry best practices across the organisation;
• Taking initiative in solving complex technical problems and recommending original solutions, designing approaches to platform requirements, making decisions between competing solutions;
• Working with the core engineering lead to define and build foundational service components to support new design patterns and ever-greening capabilities.

Requirements

YOUR SKILLS & EXPERIENCE:

• At least 10 years experience in platform engineering and infrastructure management;
• Experience with security and compliance requirements in fintech/ banking;
• Proven experience with designing, building and deploying secure and scalable cloud platforms, especially MS Azure;
• Strong expertise in infrastructure automation and orchestration tools, including experience implementing integration options with Azure and how to optimise usage and cost of the platform;
• Familiarity with modern development practices such as CI/CD;
• Strong knowledge of data infrastructure and data security;
• Strong leadership and communication abilities - ability to demonstrate and communicate the value proposition of the platform to stakeholders;
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills;
• Flexibility and ability to travel and work on client sites;
• Experience in Fintech projects is a must;
• Fluency in English.

We'd love to get to know you better!

Benefits

THE PERKS OF BECOMING A MINDER:

• Private medical subscription
• Private medical subscription for children
• Counseling and psychotherapy services
• Reimbursement for eyeglasses
• Self-proposal salary process
• Annual profit distribution, subject to company performance and board decision
• Mindera Unit Plan
• Flexible benefits options (sports, medical, cultural, donations)
• Trainings and learning opportunities to grow within your role
• Coaching and development guidance
• 25 days holiday (+ bank holidays)
• Flexibility to choose where you work from
• Vacation incentive
• Parties, gatherings & trips

We're thrilled to have the opportunity to share with you what it's like to be a part of the Mindera community.

We're a group of friendly and talented individuals who work together to bring projects to life, in a fun, politics-free environment.

Our culture is all about being adaptable and self-organized. We want Minders to take risks, make decisions, work together and feel free to be their most authentic selves, every single day.

We work closely with our clients to truly understand their products and develop high-performance, resilient, and scalable software systems that make a real impact for their users and businesses, worldwide.

We are proud of our work, we're always learning and growing in our Agile and collaborative environment, and we hope you'll love it here just as much as we do!

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At Mindera we use technology to build products we are proud of, with people we love

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We partner with our clients, to understand their product and deliver high performance, resilient and scalable software systems that create an impact in their users and businesses across the world.

You get to work with a bunch of great people, where the whole team owns the project together.

Our culture reflects our lean and self-organisation attitude. We encourage our colleagues to take risks, make decisions, work in a collaborative way and talk to everyone to enhance communication.

We are proud of our work and we love to learn all and everything while navigating through an Agile, Lean and collaborative environment.

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Mindera around the world: Porto, Portugal | Aveiro, Portugal | Coimbra, Portugal | Leicester, UK | San Diego, USA | San Francisco, USA | Chennai, India | Bengaluru, India | Blumenau, Brazil | Cluj-Napoca, Romania | Valencia, Spain | Casablanca, Morocco