Platform Engineering Manager

Summary

The Platform Engineering Manager provides people and delivery leadership for Learnosity's Platform team. Based in Australia and reporting to the SVP of Technology, the role gives local leadership to a distributed team with engineers across Australia and Dublin. Its objective is to give the team clear management and delivery ownership.

The role is accountable for building a team that reliably delivers platform improvements, supports engineering teams and works effectively with CloudOps. It acts as the technical product owner for the platform, owning the backlog, priorities and delivery, and translating the SVP of Technology strategy into a clear, prioritised platform roadmap. The SVP of Technology remains accountable for the overall technology strategy and delegates day-to-day technology decision making within the platform to this role: the manager makes the final call and breaks ties so decisions are resolved, documented and aligned to the wider strategy, while technical leads (Staff Engineers) and experienced engineers own technical design, architecture and implementation as the team's deepest technical expertise.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities

• People leadership: leads the Platform engineers day to day: regular 1:1s, performance and career development, team health and engagement, capacity and workload, hiring and onboarding, and addressing performance or behavioural issues.
• Delivery a