Domain Lead - Google Platform Team

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 3^rd 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)

Admiral: Where You Can

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