Platform Manager

Location: Warrington (2 days onsite)
Contract: Inside IR35
Pay rate: Up to £800 per day
Duration 6 months
Start date: ASAP however can take 2-4 weeks to complete the onboarding
Required: Ability to obtain SC level security clearance (this includes but is not limited to identity, employment, financial and criminal record checks plus 5 years'' worth of UK residency).
Key Skills: Cloud (ideally Azure), Technical leadership, Supplier management, Infrastructure

The Client who are pioneers, innovators and experts within their field and are the only UK organisation able to provide technical support across the whole their industry.
The Platform Manager is responsible for supporting the enterprise platform strategy and ensuring the effective operation, security, resilience and lifecycle management of technology platforms.
The role provides leadership across cloud, infrastructure, networking, identity, end user computing and core technology services, ensuring platforms remain secure, compliant, available and fit for purpose.
A key focus is maximising the value of existing technology platforms, reducing complexity and technical debt, and ensuring that the adoption of new platform capabilities delivers measurable business value while meeting regulatory, security and architectural standards.
Key Skills:
- Senior leadership experience managing enterprise platforms, infrastructure and technology services within a complex, regulated organisation.
- Proven experience defining and delivering platform strategies, technology roadmaps and platform modernisation initiatives.
- Strong technical understanding of cloud platforms, infrastructure, networking, end user computing, identity and access management, and core technology services.
- Experience leading large-scale platform operations with accountability for availability, resilience, performance and service continuity.
- Experience operating within regulatory, risk, security and compliance frameworks.
- Demonstrable ability to translate business strategy into technology capability and operational outcomes.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with experience influencing at executive level.
- Experience leading technical teams and driving engineering excellence, automation and continuous improvement.