Technology Platform Lead

2 weeks ago


Sydney, Australia Facto Full time

We are looking for a Technology Platform Lead to support our client on a greenfield project.

**About Facto**
Facto is a growing Australian IT consultancy specialising in business transformation, technology enablement, and strategic advisory services. We partner with clients across a range of industries to deliver complex change programs and drive measurable outcomes. Our consultants are trusted experts who thrive in fast-paced, evolving environments.

**The opportunity**

**What the role does**
- **Architecture & guardrails**: Define target architecture and NFRs; publish reference implementations the teams adopt.
- **Engineering practice leadership**: Grow and evolve the engineering team and culture; hiring, onboarding, coaching, and showing by doing; run guilds, code reviews, and DoR/DoD quality gates; measure DevEx (e.g. DORA).
- **Golden paths & enablement**: Ship reusable templates, CI/CD + IaC kits, and standards; drive adoption across squads; pair program to unblock.
- **Platform & runtime stewardship**: Operate reliable, observable, cost-efficient foundations (K8s/APIs/events); own SLOs/error budgets and post-incident learning.
- **Integrated delivery & partners**: Maintain the integrated backlog with Product & Experience and Data Practice leads; sequence releases; manage vendors to SLAs with knowledge transfer.
- **Partner & vendor orchestration**: Lead partners to clear outcomes, SLAs, and knowledge transfer, managing risks and inter-team dependencies.

**Must have experience**:

- 10+ years across software engineering and architecture; 3+ years leading platform and solution delivery for multi-channel products.
- Owned platform roadmaps/backlogs; shipped iterative platform capabilities linked to product outcomes/OKRs.
- Hands-on with cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure), Docker, API gateway/service mesh, event streaming (e.g. Kafka), CI/CD & Terraform, and observability.
- Embedded security/privacy and compliance by design; ran incident/change/problem practices; managed partners to SLAs with knowledge transfer.
- Practice building: hiring/mentoring, standards, guilds; drive DoR/DoD and DevEx/DORA improvements across multiple teams.

**Tooling & tech**
- **Cloud**: AWS/GCP/Azure.
- **Containers/Platform**: Docker; API gateway (e.g. AWS/Kong/Apigee); service mesh (Istio/Linkerd).
- **Integration/Eventing**: Kafka (or equivalent).
- **IaC/CI-CD**: Terraform; modern pipelines.
- **Observability**: metrics/logs/traces; OpenTelemetry; alerting & runbooks.
- **Security**: IAM/OIDC, OAuth, secrets management, WAF; policy-as-code where appropriate.



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