Senior Director of Platform & Data Engineering
KeyloopAutomotive Retail company
Reading, United KingdomDirector
Francisco Partners
Data & AI
About the role
TL;DR
Lead platform and data engineering strategy, team development, and AI initiatives.
- •Keyloop is seeking a Senior Director of Platform & Data Engineering to lead their cloud-native SaaS platform transition.
- •This high-impact leadership role reports directly to the CTO and is responsible for setting and executing the platform strategy.
- •Key Responsibilities Lead and develop a diverse, distributed team of platform and data engineers.
- •Ensure security, stability, and scalability are foundational properties of the platform.
- •Architect and evolve the integration platform for onboarding acquired businesses.
- •Lead the design and delivery of Keyloop's data platform and AI/ML infrastructure.
- •Drive Keyloop's transition to an agentic software development lifecycle.
- •Requirements Deep experience in cloud-native platform engineering on AWS, including IaC, containerization, and event streaming.
- •Proven track record designing and operating shared platform services in a complex enterprise SaaS environment.
- •Hands-on background in data platform engineering and building AI/ML infrastructure.
- •Extensive engineering leadership experience, with a proven record of building and scaling high-performing distributed engineering teams.
- •Practical experience adopting and scaling AI-native development tooling.
Required skills
AWSTerraformPulumiKubernetesSnowflakeDatabricksAthenaPythonSQL
Nice-to-have skills
ECSDockerCI/CDGitHub ActionsJiraConfluenceREST APIOAuthSOC 2
Domain expertise
automotivedeveloper-toolsaiproductivity
Tech stack
AWSTerraformPulumiKubernetesECSSnowflakeDatabricksAthenaPythonSQLGitLinuxDockerCI/CDGitHub ActionsJiraConfluenceREST APIOAuthSOC 2