Senior Software Engineer – Technical Lead, Platform Core

About the role Our client's Platform Core team owns the core engineering platform used by every development team — how code and artifacts move from idea to production. We're looking for a senior engineer to act as technical lead across these capabilities, set technical direction, and drive the platform agenda forward. What you'll do Act as technical lead and architecture authority across Platform Core: source control, artifact management, software supply chain security, secrets management, keyless identity, and CI/CDDefine, approve, and document standards, reference architectures, and golden paths that engineering teams build onOwn architecture and security decisions for the area, moving capabilities from "in place" to governed and measurableLead on software supply chain security and secrets, including ongoing tooling transitionsProvide hands-on technical leadership across engineering teams: set direction, review design, unblock delivery, raise the technical barPartner with security, architecture, and product stakeholders to align the platform roadmapLead two squads and drive the technical agenda day-to-day What we're looking forSenior software/platform engineer with proven technical lead experienceDeep hands-on experience with SDLC platform tooling: GitHub, CI/CD (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD), artifact management (Artifactory), secrets management (Vault/Infisical), supply chain security (scanning and curation)Strong security engineering background: identity, secrets, keyless/token authentication, and supply chainExperience defining standards, reference architectures, and governance for a large engineering organisationInfrastructure as Code and cloud platform experienceAbility to drive an agenda and influence across multiple teams without direct authorityPlatform engineering breadth, exposure to agentic development tooling.