About The Role

A Platform Lead is responsible for owning the design, development and operations of a platform within the wider ASOS technology landscape. This role is to support the Platform Engineering and M&A teams.   

The role works closely with Architects and Engineers to plan and define a road map for the Platform. You will also be responsible for working with Lead Engineers from various teams to make sure the design is broken down in a delivery plan.

You will closely work with your teams, ensuring they have the support they need to run and are delivering high quality software that meets our operational demands. A Platform Lead will get involved with the teams to help with planning, running design sessions and making sure the team have everything they need to succeed.

A Platform Lead will be expected to

Collaborate with the Business and other Platforms to deliver features that span areas and drive a plan that manages dependencies between teams and software.

You will…

• Contribute to, agree, and continuously review the roadmap with Architecture and the Head of Technology to make sure it meets both business and technology objectives maximizing the benefits for ASOS.
• Own the Platform Budget . Working with finance and procurement to ensure that costs are appropriate and tracked correctly
• Be accountable for planning and delivery of the platform backlog / services, working closely with the relevant key stakeholders.
• Drive the identification of features and functional enhancements within the platform that can support the improvement in how we support our internal customers
• Ensure that Tech Debt is addressed within the team and its supported technologies
• Work closely with other platform teams / project management / release management that may be dependent on / impacted by changes in the platform scope or technical implementation.
• Drive the day-to-day operations, monitoring and maintenance of the platform to ensure reliable, predictable and efficient service.
• Proactively monitor production performance to help guide future development and opportunities for technical or functional improvement
• Provide leadership to their team of Platform Engineers
• Own and continuously improve the software development process including testing, build and deployment and code quality
• Embrace and advocate Agile ways of working in technology and the wider business team
• Run planning and design sessions with your engineering teams
• Work with Lead Engineers to help run agile ceremonies (e.g. review, retro and planning sessions)
• Manage any 3rd party / supplier relationships – ensuring any service reviews are carried out and that licensing concerns are addressed

What success looks like

• Clearly understood Platform road map
• Strong relationships with Heads of Technology, other Platform Leads, Product Owners and Lead Engineers as well as the wider ASOS technology community.
• Operations teams are high performing and delivering software to agreed timelines, including operational support that may be required 24/7 (depending on criticality)
• The software produced is operationally stable, and incidents resolved in line with agreed SLAs

We would love to meet someone with

• A strong background in software delivery who understands the Software Development Life Cycle.
• Understanding of Agile practices and ability to run planning, design and other ceremonies
• Experience in project/programme management to build and execute complex road maps, and explain the business value to a non-technical audience
• Budget responsibility experience
• Experience in leading development teams
• Solid understanding of Azure and its key concepts so that you can drive conversations with the engineering team
• Practical understanding of our core toolsets e.g. TC / Octopus / Azure DevOps
• An Operational mindset – the changes we make affect multiple teams and impacts can be far reaching so demonstrable experience in this area is key

What's in it for you?

We will give you a competitive salary, bonus scheme, staff discount, sample sales and pension matching but also a fantastic bunch of flexible benefits that focus on your health, wealth & inner self for you and your friends and family. 

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