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Platform engineering leader of 28 software engineers across 4 squads, tasked with developing and delivering the platform for our product teams to build customer facing applications. Areas of responsibility include authentication, geospatial, ingress, entity management and user permission. Technology C#, .Net, Javascript, Node, Postgres SQL, AWS, Windows, Linux, Docker, Chef, TeamCity, Jira. Key Responsibilities• Collaborating with product, architecture, customer support and leadership to define roadmaps, ensuring we meet our budgets in each of the following areas Strategic, Scale, Run.• Delivery of roadmap projects often requiring coordination with international teams. • Aligning the team behind the VZC strategy. Defining how the we as a group and as individuals impact the company strategy. • Coaching team members by supporting and facilitating their career goals. • Implementing and refining lean practises, automated CI/CD pipeline and monitoring of our customer’s experience through metrics. Achievements• Formed Platform Engineering clan with a new purpose from 3 legacy teams. • 26% increase in employee satisfaction Q1 2020• Q1 Spotlight award for my leadership and success in reorganisation of testing team and creation of Platform engineering clan.• Delivery of 2 services for our new Video offering and initial milestones for our new Geospatial Platform during lockdown.

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