Head of Platforms
Purpose of Role
We're looking for an ambitious and motivated Head of Platforms to join our team and help us shape how we deliver experiences that convert across a range of DXP, CMS, CRM, CDP and CMP projects!
Remarkable Group has top tier partner status with a number of technology vendors including Sitecore, Optimizely, Salesforce, Contentful, Big Commerce and a few others too. Historically, we have run these practices separately but as more and more organisations become headless/hybrid headless we're looking for a new Platform lead, who can help us standardise our services, approaches and outputs so that we can continue to deliver award winning customer experiences, regardless of the technologies in play.
Ideally, you will have a strong background in DXP and Data projects, understand at least Sitecore, Optimizely or Salesforce Commerce inside out and understand that what we do is deliver amazing experiences for customers, easy to use and robust tools to our clients’ teams and technology as an enabler for businesses to achieve their objectives.
Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities
Be accountable for the Gross Margin of our engineering and related teams who form the Platforms team within Remarkable Group
Platform Strategy and Direction for our Tier 1 platform partners
Defining and delivering Product Accelerators using standardised technologies across our range of Platforms
Ensuring adequate team skills and certifications to achieve and retain Platinum status with our Tier 1 Partners – namely Sitecore, Optimizely and Contentful
To stand on stages and talk about how technology and platforms are enablers and then in other rooms go deep into the Platforms and technologies that we use
Defines, communicates, evangelises, and enforces platform engineering processes and standards across all platforms internally
Deliver quality by standardising and simplifying our tech stack, and through having scalable and robust QA practices embedded in all we deliver
Ensuring correct processes are documented during all stages of development, leading to improvements of processes and solutions
Identifies reusable code required for the internal global code library/repository and ensures the high-quality creation of the code
Support new business and existing client opportunities by getting clients and prospects excited about what they can achieve
Consistently delivers high-quality services to our clients - assisting teams as appropriate
Work with our other seniors to create a seamless and integrated end-to-end experience for our clients
Manage a team of Practice leads who can go deep into each of our Tier 1 platforms
Key Responsibilities
Provide leadership, management and support for technical teams within the agency
Oversee technical recruitment by working our People Team and Head of PMO to get the right people on-board, just in time for when we need them
To ensure the appraisals and personal development including the mentoring and training of junior members of the team is completed across the Platform team
Creates an environment where Innovators can successfully achieve professional career path goals
Enforces standard policies and procedures and champions change and can effectively manage the implementation of new ideas
Reinforces team approach throughout development efforts
Fosters an open and collaborative technical culture within the Sitecore Engineering team.
Skills and Competencies
Have passion for new technologies and be experienced in working on large value portfolio and large digital transformation projects
To have the ability to forward plan and evaluate the impact of integration across businesses and platforms
An understanding of the cost and consequence of implementation from both a technology and architectural perspective
Ability to document work and projects and report to the leadership and management team
Good organisational and interpersonal skills with good verbal and written communication skills and an ability to work to tight deadlines
Previous Experience and Skills
In-depth knowledge of Sitecore and/or Optimizely
Expert technical ability in the following: .Net/C# (MVC), SQL Server, JavaScript Frameworks (i.e. ReactJS/Angular/VueJS), Microservices, Solr, Node.js, Entity Framework, .NET Core, Azure Services
Extensive experience with Azure based development
In-depth knowledge of CI (Continuous Integration) and CD (Continuous Deployment) technologies, i.e. TeamCity, Azure DevOps, Octopus Deploy and deployment pipelines
Expertise and broad experience to design, architect & deliver technically sophisticated solutions to meet challenging business requirements – including integrations i.e. Salesforce/Dynamics365 and/or legacy systems
Experience with data and asset migrations from non-Sitecore solutions/platforms (e.g. Umbraco/Optimizely/Kentico) to Sitecore
Experience with software development lifecycle tools e.g. Playwright
- Department
- Platform Engineering
- Locations
- Manchester, Ashford, London
- Remote status
- Hybrid Remote
A few remarkable benefits
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Flexible Working
Work from home, work from one of our 7 offices across the globe or anywhere else you like. We've been offering flexible working before it was fashionable and our philosophy hasn't changed. -
Personal & Professional Development
For us to be remarkable, we need you to be remarkable and that means continuous learning and development. We offer access to online learning 24/7, professional qualifications and we'll be pushing you to be your best self with soft skills development in presenting, networking and profile building.
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Work, Rest & Play
With competitive holiday packages, your birthday off and days to look after yourself and your loved ones, we understand that to be remarkable you also need to be able to switch off and take care of yourself and those around you.
What we do
Remarkable is as remarkable does. Our team are the backbone of the Remarkable Group digital consultancies and so everyday brings new challenges and new opportunities.
You might be supporting a pitch in US, on-boarding a new recruit in the UAE or mentoring a future digital superstar.
Whatever it is, it will be fun, rewarding and at the cutting edge of digital experience.
Head of Platforms
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