Platform Engineering Manager

Job summary

ABOUT Hom*** Cover for Almost every Home We founded Hom*** on a simple principle - to provide protection to people underserved by the home insurance industry. Since 2002, we've been combining smart technology with real human expertise to protect hundreds of thousands of unique homes across the UK, and we're just getting started.

Benefits

Qualifications

• where they'll make the biggest difference, and our Lunch and Learn sessions to help you stay connected to what’s going on right across the business.
• Health and Wellbeing: Your wellbeing matters here.
• We offer private healthcare through BUPA, an Employee Assistance Programme covering legal, financial and counselling support for you, a Wellbeing Centre with online
• at any stage of the recruitment journey, we want the process to work for you.
• Your data will be maintained in line with our recruitment data privacy policy.
• Regulatory

Responsibilities

• You'll collaborate closely across teams, have real ownership from day one and see the impact you have first-hand with flexible working to help you balance the needs of your role with the rhythm of your life.
• You'll own the strategy, people and delivery — with security and compliance built in from the start.
• Own the strategy and roadmap for our internal developer platform, shifting the team from reactive tickets to a product-led roadmap measured by adoption and self-service, not ticket volume.
• Build, coach and grow the platform team — line-managing the core team and scaling toward roughly one embedded platform engineer per delivery team.
• Run the embed model: engineers embed to enable a delivery team, transfer the knowledge, then step back to self-serve while staying centrally managed.
• Deliver self-serve "paved roads" — Terraform modules and state, environment provisioning, API scaffolding, on-demand dev/test databases, CI/CD and observability.
• Own platform reliability and run — SLOs, incident response and operational resilience across our multi-cloud (Azure/GCP) and on-prem estate.
• Build security and compliance into the golden paths by design, meeting our FCA-regulated obligations without slowing teams down.
• Drive platform modernisation and consolidation — migrating legacy tooling (e.g.
• TeamCity, Octopus) into a standardised CI/CD approach and supporting our Azure-to-GCP direction.
• Partner with and influence engineering leaders across delivery, data, pricing and AI teams you don't directly own, to drive platform adoption.
• Set technical standards and provide credible direction — coaching engineers on better ways of working and making pragmatic, right-sized build-and-sequence decisions.

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