Platform Technical Lead, Boden
+ Annual bonus scheme
2 days a week in office (Boden House, London)
Clothing for women and children
Be an early applicant
Clothing for women and children
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Annual bonus scheme
2 days a week in office (Boden House, London)
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To create clothes that bring colour to our customers' wardrobes and fun to their lives.
Role
Who you are
- Strong sense of ownership and accountability
- Curious about and interested in AI Engineering and emerging capabilities
- Skilled working with Datadog or similar monitoring systems
- Strong experience with Infrastructure-as-Code, preferably Terraform
- Strong platform and systems architecture experience
- Expertise with AWS Cloud
- Skilled in CI/CD Pipelines Cloud, including designing and operating shared pipelines, automation frameworks, and deployment strategies
- Experience with cloud platform and cloud-native engineering
- Observability and reliability expertise, including logging, metrics, tracing, alerting, and incident management
- End-to-end SDLC experience with strong architectural design knowledge
- Strong coding skills. Ideally experience in python or .NET
- IT-related degree is preferred
- Excellent communication skills, able to explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
- A passion for exploring modern technologies and driving innovation
- Experience integration third party services
- Developer platform and tooling experience, preferably with GitHub Copilot/AI Engineering
- Knowledge evaluating and integrating third-party platforms
- Experience with Quality and automated testing platforms
What the job involves
- This Platform Technical Lead is responsible for evolving and maintaining the platform engineering capabilities, whilst supporting the engineering teams to deliver consistent and quality software
- This role works closely with internal and external engineering teams to understand common challenges and turn them into clear platform improvements and priorities, with a particular focus on enabling teams through automation, standards and guidance
- Own and develop the platform roadmap, ensuring it addresses engineering needs, objectives and architecture direction
- Maintain a deep understanding of industry best practices, trends and approaches to deliver value from the engineering platform
- Maintain an understanding of key third-party product roadmaps and their relevance to the platform domain
- Support and enable domain-specific platform initiatives, ensuring they align with overall platform strategy, standards, and architectural direction
- Engage regularly with engineering teams to understand challenges, blockers, and architectural constraints
- Run discovery and innovation activities to explore improvements to engineering and platform practices
- Lead developer enablement through workshops, presentations, self-service tools, documentation, templates, and golden paths
- Promote engineering standards and best practices, support cross-team alignment, and share learning across the technical community
- Build and evolve a secure, scalable internal developer platform used across engineering teams
- Own and evolve observability platforms that provide engineers with actionable insight into service health, enable early detection of issues, and support rapid diagnosis and resolution of incidents
- Design and operate shared CI/CD pipelines and automation frameworks that reduce manual effort and risk
- Own infrastructure-as-code templates and automated environment provisioning standards
- Platform roadmap items delivered that directly support agreed engineering objectives or architectural priorities
- Stakeholder engagement with platform initiatives, include self-service tooling, templates, and documentation
- Ensuring the technical backlog is prioritised, up to date, and aligned to team and department objectives
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Initially set up as a mail order company in 1991, Boden has since become a major UK fashion brand specialising in quality clothing designed to stand the test of time. It has 1.8 million active customers worldwide and has attracted high-profile buyers, including Kate Middleton, Michelle Obama, and Holly Willoughby.
Previously relying on catalogue sales, they were unable to achieve the real-time responsiveness vital in today’s retail industry. As a result, in the past few years, Boden has heavily invested in modernising its IT systems and created a new way to capture data online. Having adapted to changing consumer behaviours, now 95% of its sales occur online, enabling it to compete with the growing number of e-commerce competitors like ME + EM and Mint Velvet.
This new digital approach has not been Boden's only success in recent years. Traditionally, many UK retailers have failed to gain a foothold in the US. However, the company’s quintessential British branding has successfully set it apart, leading to Boden’s US sales already overtaking those in the UK, and the business continues to grow faster there.
Freddie
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Insights
-4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
London, UK
Leadership
Johnnie Boden
(Creative Director)Johnnie started Boden in 1991 from their kitchen table with an eight-piece menswear collection, and has since expanded the company to the titan it is today.
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