Senior Director of Platform & Data Engineering

[…] is a leading automotive retail software business, operating across 100+ markets and backed by Francisco Partners. As we accelerate our transition to a modern, cloud-native SaaS platform, Platform & Data Engineering sits at the heart of our technical strategy. This is a high-impact leadership role reporting directly to the CTO, responsible for setting and executing the platform strategy that enables […]'s product engineering teams, powers our data and AI capabilities, and provides the integration fabric for an acquisitive, multi-product business.

• Leadership & Team Development

Lead and develop a diverse, distributed team of platform and data engineers, providing guidance, mentorship, and clear career pathways to ensure high performance and professional growth.

Build and refine the organisational structure of the platform function, including defining team topologies that support product engineering teams as internal customers.

Foster a culture of engineering excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement, with a strong emphasis on developer productivity and platform reliability.

• Platform & Technology Strategy

Ensure security, stability, and scalability are foundational properties of the platform - not afterthoughts - with clear ownership of reliability targets, security-by-design standards, and the capacity to serve a growing SaaS customer base across 100+ markets.

Co-own the multi-year platform engineering roadmap with the Plat