Platform Manager

We're building the next generation of platform for one of the UK's largest financial services companies, trusted by over 2 million clients and managing £170 billion in assets. This is your opportunity to shape technology that will redefine how people invest and achieve financial freedom. Our purpose is clear: to give people financial freedom. By joining us, you'll help deliver innovative, secure, and scalable solutions that make investing easier and more accessible for everyone.

The Platform Manager delivers the cloud platform strategy, ensuring secure, scalable, and high-performing solutions. This role leads platform design, automation, and governance, manages the engineering team, and drives innovation through public cloud services to meet evolving HL needs. What you will be doing Oversee the design, development, and implementation of the cloud platform, ensuring it meets performance, scalability, reliability, and compliance standards.

Manage and develop the cloud platform engineering team, fostering cross-functional collaboration and driving continuous improvement initiatives. Ensure the platform aligns with customers' business requirements, technical constraints, and evolving needs through proactive engagement with stakeholders. Develop and optimize provisioning, configuration, and deployment processes using Infrastructure as Code and Dev Ops practices. Implement centralized management, monitoring, and governance capabilities to maintain visibility, security, and control across customer cloud environments.

Continuously evaluate emerging public cloud services and technologies, incorporating them into the platform to enhance value and maintain competitive advantage. About you Extensive experience in cloud platform engineering and operations, with deep knowledge of cloud-native architectures and best practices. Strong technical expertise in public cloud services and ability to translate business requirements into robust, scalable cloud solutions. Proven ability to build, lead, and motivate high-performing, cross-functional teams.

Excellent analytical skills to navigate complex technical and organizational challenges. Strong interpersonal skills to work effectively with customer-facing teams and align platform capabilities with business needs. Commitment to adopting innovative cloud technologies and modern delivery approaches. Interview process The interview process for this role three stages, including a task/ presentation element. Working Schedule This role is based in Bristol head office, BS1 5HL
. This role is permanent, full time, 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday. We have returned to the office, however for this role we offer a hybrid flexible working pattern. Why us? Here at HL, we're the UK's number 1 investment platform for private investors, based in Bristol. For more than 40 years we've helped investors save time, tax and money on their investments.

To achieve our mission, we believe we have a workplace like no other, with constant learning, dynamic teams, and a great ethos. We're steered by core values that promote service, quality, innovation, and opportunity in everything we do. What's on offer? Discretionary annual bonus
* and annual pay review 25 days
* holiday plus bank holidays and 1-day additional Christmas closure Option to purchase an additional 5 days holiday Flexible working options available, including hybrid working Enhanced parental leave Pension scheme up to 11% employer contribution Income Protection and Life insurance (4 x salary core level of cover) Private medical insurance
* Health care cash plans - including optical, dental, and out patient care Health screening programme Help@hand - confidential support including mental health counselling and remote GP Wellhub - unlimited access to fitness providers and wellness coach sessions Variety of travel to work schemes with bike storage and shower facilities Inhouse barista and deli serving subsidised coffee and sandwiches Two paid volunteering days per year
* dependent on role level  only available to select during our annual benefits window, in November each year Hargreaves Lansdown is an inclusive employer that values diversity in its workforce. We encourage applications from all individuals without regard to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or age. This role may also be available on a flexible working or part time basis - please ask the Recruitment & Onboarding team for more information.

Please note, we are unable to provide employment sponsorship to candidates. HLI