Lead Platform Engineer (Data)

Moneysupermarket Group • TRAFFIC • Lancashire, Manchester, United Kingdom • 11h ago

Lead Platform Engineer (Data) page is loaded Lead Platform Engineer (Data) Apply locations Manchester time type Full time posted on Posted 3 Days Ago job requisition id REQ-3530

Hybrid working: we spend 2 days together a week, with this role based in our Manchester Spinningfields office.

As a Lead Platform Engineer, you'll shape the backbone of our engineering ecosystem-designing and evolving the platforms that power our products at scale. You'll lead technical strategy, champion best practices, and enable teams to deliver faster, safer, and smarter. This is a hands-on leadership role where you'll influence architecture, mentor engineers, and drive innovation in cloud infrastructure, automation, and developer experience.

You'll guide the evolution of our database products, ensuring secure, performant, and developer-friendly data services, while leading the team through design, delivery, and operational excellence.

Our Technology

Our platform underpins critically important services, designed for security, scalability, and developer efficiency. We leverage AWS, container orchestration (ECS), and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CDK) to deliver resilient, automated environments. Observability is powered by DataDog, and we're embracing AI-driven tooling (GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT) to accelerate delivery and improve quality. You'll help us evolve this ecosystem to support rapid growth and innovation.

How you'llspendyour day:

Lead & Inspire: Set technical direction, mentor engineers, and foster a culture of excellence.
Data Excellence:Champion best practices in database design, enable self-serve tools for developers, and drive smart, scalable data decisions across the Group.
Design & Deliver: Architect and implement scalable, secure platform solutions that empower product teams.
Innovate & Improve: Drive continuous improvement in automation, observability, and developer experience.
Collaborate & Influence: Partner with Product, Security, and Engineering leaders to align platform strategy with business goals.

Whatvalueyou'll bring to the role:

Proven experience leading platform or infrastructure engineering teams in a cloud-native environment, with specific experience in data engineering.
Deep expertise in AWS, infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/CDK), and container orchestration.
Strong understanding of database technologies (MongoDB, relational DBs) and data modelling.
Passion for automation, observability, and improving developer experience.
Comfortable leveraging AI tools to accelerate delivery and improve quality.
Excellent communicator who can influence technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Our interview process:

A call with one of our Talent Acquisition Team
An interview consisting of Technical Questions, a System Design Task, and Behavioural Questions focused on leadership and working with others.

What rewards are on offer:

Up to 30 holidays + bank holidays
Pension up to 6% employer contribution
Bonus scheme
Enhanced shared parental leave - 6 months paid for both parents
Digital Doctor on demand
Work from anywhere scheme - 2 weeks per year
Financial coaching
Mental health platform access

Why us?

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

We're an inclusive, anti-racist and equal opportunity employer that values diversity. This means we respect and embrace differences in gender identity, race, ethnic origin, sexual expression and orientation, religion and faith, age, marital status, disability, neurodiversity, social background, education and way of thinking. We're a place where you can be you.

Our customers and users come from different backgrounds, as do our colleagues. We welcome applications from everyone, and particularly encourage women and Black, Asian and ethnic minority candidates to apply as we're actively building representation that's more closely reflective of the communities we serve. Our appointments are made on merit, following a robust and objective assessment process, and the candidate with the highest score is offered the role. If you're passionate about our purpose of helping households save money and excited about what you could accomplish here, we'd love to hear from you.

We understand that job adverts only say so much and you're likely to have a lot of questions. If you'd like to know anything before applying such as more on the location, salary, our parental leave policy etc, please just let us know and we'll be happy to help. You can contact the recruiter for this role, Tom at

About Us

Here at MONY Group, we help millions of households save money. Through our amazing brands, Quidco, TravelSupermarket and DecisionTech, we help people manage, save, grow, and take control of their money through free, easy-to-use online tools and services. With hundreds of brilliant colleagues working together, and with the widest range of providers, we push beyond expectations to give our customers the choice they deserve, help providers find a cost effective route to the market, and save people time and money - every day.

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