Director of Platform
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Marketing, sales and advertising directors
Occupation Code Skill LevelHigher Skilled
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£87,300
(£44.77 per hour)
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Description
Who We Are
Zilch is a payment tech company on a mission to create the most empowering way to pay for anything, anywhere. Combining the best of debit, credit and savings, we give our customers the option to earn instant cashback or spread the cost of pricier purchases, completely interest free and with no late fees. Pretty great, right?
We started in 2018 with a small team and a big dream - to make credit accessible to all. Since then, we've achieved double unicorn status and taken on more than 5 million customers. There are some exciting projects coming up and we’ve got big growth plans.
Want to join us?
About The Role.
This is a senior Leadership role for a hands-on technical leader, with a focused mandate to lead Cloud Platform, SRE, Data Platform and Data Engineering, sets high technical standards, and challenges teams to raise the bar and continually improve. The role strengthens functional leadership, providing clear accountability for delivery, performance, and team engagement. It ensures closer alignment between technical capabilities and the company’s strategic priorities, enabling technology to effectively inform business decision-making and growth.
Role Responsibilities.
Zilch is a payment tech company on a mission to create the most empowering way to pay for anything, anywhere. Combining the best of debit, credit and savings, we give our customers the option to earn instant cashback or spread the cost of pricier purchases, completely interest free and with no late fees. Pretty great, right?
We started in 2018 with a small team and a big dream - to make credit accessible to all. Since then, we've achieved double unicorn status and taken on more than 5 million customers. There are some exciting projects coming up and we’ve got big growth plans.
Want to join us?
About The Role.
This is a senior Leadership role for a hands-on technical leader, with a focused mandate to lead Cloud Platform, SRE, Data Platform and Data Engineering, sets high technical standards, and challenges teams to raise the bar and continually improve. The role strengthens functional leadership, providing clear accountability for delivery, performance, and team engagement. It ensures closer alignment between technical capabilities and the company’s strategic priorities, enabling technology to effectively inform business decision-making and growth.
Role Responsibilities.
- Lead the Platform function, including Cloud Platform, SRE, Data Platform, and Data Engineering, ensuring operational excellence, secure multi-region foundations, system reliability, and scalable infrastructure, and actively review designs, Terraform/IaC, and operational runbooks to enforce standards.
- Establish clear accountability for delivery, performance, and team engagement across platform and data engineering teams.
- Drive alignment between technical capabilities and company strategy, ensuring technology investments deliver measurable business outcomes.
- Partner with Product, Service Operations and Commercial teams to improve cross-functional collaboration, enabling analytics-driven decisions and rapid product innovation.
- Define and execute the platform roadmap, including cloud architecture, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and data pipelines, deployment standards, and observability, publishing opinionated platform standards and tracking adoption.
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement, relentless delivery, operational resilience, and technical excellence by setting clear technical standards, providing hands-on coaching, and constructively challenging designs and assumptions with data.
- Proven experience leading cloud platform/SRE and data platform/engineering teams, including incident leadership and SRE outcomes, in fintech or high-growth technology companies.
- Strong technical expertise in cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, data pipelines, and enterprise-grade systems.
- Demonstrated ability to align technology strategy with business goals and deliver measurable value.
- Skilled at cross-functional collaboration, with experience influencing Product, Finance, and Commercial stakeholders.
- Track record of fostering operational excellence, team engagement, and high standards of technical delivery, raising the technical bar regularly with measurable improvements.
- Experience in payments, high-volume transactional systems, or regulated environments.
- Knowledge of observability, monitoring, and incident management best practices.
Compensation & Savings
- Pension scheme.
- Death in Service scheme.
- Income Protection.
- Permanent employees enjoy access to our Share Options Scheme.
- 5% back on in-app purchases.
- £200 for WFH Setup.
- Private Medical Insurance including;
- Unlimited mental health sessions.
- 24/7 remote GP & physiotherapy.
- 24/7 helpline for emotional & practical support.
- Enhanced maternity pay.
- Enhanced paternity pay.
- Enhanced adoption pay.
- Enhanced shared parental leave.
- Professional Qualifications.
- Professional Memberships.
- Learning Suite for e-courses.
- Internal Training Programmes.
- FCA & Regulatory training.
- Hybrid Working.
- Casual dress code.
- Workplace socials.
- Healthy snacks.