Platform Engineer

Job Title: Platform Engineer
Duration: 3 Months
Location: Central London.
Work Model : 4 days from office, 1 day from home
Description:

• Build and evolve the shared integration platform services that domain-aligned, platform and programme teams consume to deliver integrations across the client's technology estate, delivering against the agreed engagement plan and milestones.

• Put in place the structures that allow domain teams to build integrations independently within agreed guardrails, including developer onboarding and enablement, contribution and peer review processes, pattern compliance checks, environment and release practices, and a community of practice for sharing knowledge and reusable assets.
• Develop reusable integration components, templates, assets, connectors and pattern implementations that accelerate delivery team adoption, reduce duplication and enforce consistency across the portfolio, and define how these assets are owned, versioned and maintained within the CoE.
• Design, implement and operate CI/CD pipelines for Workato, enabling automated testing, version control and controlled deployment of recipes, connectors and reusable components across environments in line with agreed engineering standards and release practices.
• Support the managed service partner, who owns the day-to-day operational health of the integration platform, by providing engineering input to monitoring, incident resolution, capacity management and platform upgrades, and by ensuring that operational runbooks and support models are fit for purpose.
• Partner with Enterprise Security Architects to embed security-by-design into the integration platform: API security, data-in-transit protection, access control and compliance with enterprise security standards.

• Plan and deliver structured knowledge transfer, including pairing, walkthroughs and shadowing, to permanent colleagues, the client's managed service partner and other partner resources, and contribute to onboarding and upskilling of the permanent in-house integration engineering capability.

EXPERIENCE

• 6-8 years' experience in integration engineering, middleware engineering or platform engineering, with a proven track record of building and supporting enterprise integration platforms within complex, multi-system environments.
• Proven, hands-on Workato experience, including recipe and custom connector development, reusable recipe and function patterns, error handling, environment and deployment management, and Workato Foundations Level 1 and 2 certification.
• Proficiency in other enterprise iPaaS and integration tooling, with practical experience of one or more of the following: SAP BTP / Integration Suite, MuleSoft, Boomi, Informatica or equivalent. Hands-on experience with API management platforms (e.g. Apigee, Azure API Management, Kong).
• Demonstrable experience of enabling decentralised integration delivery, equipping domain-aligned teams to build, test, deploy and support their own integrations through hands-on coaching, reusable assets, clear documentation and peer review, within shared engineering standards and guardrails.
• Strong event-driven and messaging experience, including Apache Kafka, Azure Service Bus or equivalent, with practical understanding of event-driven architecture patterns, pub/sub, CQRS and event sourcing.
• Solid understanding of enterprise integration patterns (EAI, ESB, API-led connectivity, canonical data models, orchestration vs. choreography) with the ability to translate architectural standards into engineered platform capabilities and reusable components.
• Practical experience of API security, OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect, mutual TLS, data-in-transit protection and access control as applied to integration platforms, with the ability to embed security into platform services by design.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines for integration deployment, Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Bicep or equivalent) and integration monitoring/observability tooling.
• Able to be productive within a short onboarding period, working independently with minimal supervision and delivering against defined outcomes and timelines.
• Demonstrable experience of structured knowledge transfer and handover to permanent teams and managed service partners
• Comfortable in a foundational environment where integration engineering practices, reusable assets and platform services need to be established from scratch, balancing pace of delivery against sustainable, well-documented engineering foundations.
• Collaborative and effective working across multiple teams, alongside permanent staff and third-party partners, within a cross-functional operating model where the integration platform serves as shared infrastructure.
• Detail-oriented with a commitment to documentation, reusable asset development, knowledge sharing and engineering consistency.
• Experience in Retail, Luxury or Consumer Goods industries is beneficial.

Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Vertage Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.