The Platform Technology area is looking to recruit a Domain Lead for the Google Platform Team. Google Cloud is a rapidly developing area for Admiral, delivering key projects in 2025 and beyond. The successful candidate will provide both technical leadership and pastoral care for a growing team that will play an important part in Admiral’s cloud strategy, working alongside other Domain Leads in Platform Services.
Job Purpose
- Enable the delivery of the Google Cloud platform and services.
- Deliver a standard set of services and tools that are secure, compliant with Admiral standards and policies, and can be easily consumed by other tribes and engineering teams.
- Create the right environment to attract, assess and retain top engineering talent, including developing relevant compensation packages and enabling engineers to continuously maintain and improve their technical and non-technical skills.
- Keep abreast of technology developments in the google ecosystem, anticipate the benefit to Admiral, and drive the development of new features and functions.
- Lead individuals and groups through significant strategic technology changes and/or during times of organisational change.
- Assist the team in achieving their objectives and key results.
Accountabilities & Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership for the Google Cloud Platform Team and to wider teams.
- Line management duties for Technical Leads and Engineers with a view to focussing on coaching and mentoring techniques that align to both agile principles and Admiral values.
- Collaborate with Platform Services technical leadership team and wider teams to understand demand and resource requirements.
- Accountable for maintaining and facilitating team level resource plans, forecasts future resource requirements, working with the Service Owner, Technical Lead, and Scrum Master to agree future resourcing strategies.
- Develop and drive the platform to support Admiral’s strategic aims
- Ensure platforms are secure, continuously compliant, and maintained to meet Group Minimum Standards.
- Owns and is accountable for KPIs/OKRs for the team and maximises the team’s ability to deliver these.
- Lead the Google Platform function and mentor and inspire engineers.
- Drive collaboration and a continuous improvement mind-set across the team.
- Embed productivity, quality, transparency and openness as core values.
- Manage the career development for the GCP engineering function:
- Establish a clear career structure for engineers with career levels, competencies, and salary bands defined.
- Develop training plans to support career development.
- Champion “extracurricular” activities to further develop. engineering excellence and position Admiral as a technology employer of choice.
- Own and manage risks, issues, and dependencies at team level.
- Development and monitoring of key performance indicators.
- Manage budgeting, forecasts, and plans for growth.
- Identifying, track, remove, and escalate impediments and blockers at team level to maintain both pace and flow of value.
- Manage budgeting, forecasts, and plans for growth.
- Develop a happy and talented team ensuring that the culture within the department reflects the four pillars of “Communication, Equality, Reward and Recognition and Fun”.
- Inspire employees and act as a role model for the behaviours that encourage a high standard of product delivery.
Experience and Skills Required
- Experienced leader able to lead calmly through periods of high pressure whilst inspiring people and teams to achieve excellence and grow their skills.
- Knowledge and experience operating within enterprise scale network technology.
- Knowledge and experience (5yrs+) operating within:
- Building and managing cloud services and resources.
- Google Cloud Architecture.
- Containerised workloads.
- Hybrid connectivity.
- DevOps tools and methods.
- Knowledge and experience with line management through both coaching and mentoring techniques.
- Experience operating within heavily regulated environments including external regulated consumer products and service offerings.
- Knowledge of identification and management of specific engineering, design, and testing standards and practices that comply with internal organisation IT governance and architectural standards within a heavily regulated environment.
- Knowledge and experience with design & development of cloud resources at scale.
- Extensive knowledge and experience with 3rd party service providers including facilitation of RFP, onboarding, and performance management (design of SLA and overall KPI).
- Experience and awareness of IT architectural governance, standards, and methodology.
- Experience and awareness of CISO governance frameworks, standards, controls, and auditing documentation covering both business and technology solutions currently within product backlogs.
- Extensive experience with project management fundamentals with the ability to apply principles, tools and techniques to develop/plan, manage or execute projects to ensure successful completion.
- Drive, enthusiasm, and a can-do attitude.
Desirable qualifications
- Google Cloud Associate or Professional
- SAFe® 5 Agilist certification
- Scrum Master certification (CSM Certified Scrum Master, PSM – Professional Scrum Master)
hackajob is partnering with Admiral Group Plc to fill this position. Create a profile to be automatically considered for this role—and others that match your experience.
