Director of Platform Engineering

Job Title: Director of Platform Engineering

Location: London, UK (Hybrid)

Position Type: Full-time, Permanent

Work model: Hybrid (8 days in office per month)

Reporting Manager: CTPO

Industry: Commodities & Energy

Founded in 1995, Zema Global Data Corporation empowers organizations to simplify complexity, reduce risk, and make faster, more confident decisions that drive measurable results. Over the past two years, Zema Global has accelerated its growth through strategic investment and acquisition to strengthen our global leadership. Together we’re helping our customers gain a Decisioning Advantage – one bold idea at a time.

With a presence across global energy, commodity, and financial markets, Zema Global empowers customers to simplify complexity, reduce risk, and make faster, more confident decisions that drive measurable results.

At Zema Global, we Think Big, Make It Happen, and Win as One. We thrive on collaboration, creativity, and respect, united by a shared drive to innovate and deliver meaningful impact for our customers and communities. If you’re inspired by solving complex challenges and contributing to a culture that values purpose and performance, we invite you to join us.

The Director of Platform Engineering is responsible for building the backbone of digital innovation, ensuring that platform services provide speed, scalability, reliability, and security for every product and business initiative. Within the first year, success will be measured by faster environment provisioning, improved deployment velocity, increased reliability of core services, and measurable reductions in cloud operating costs.

Zema Global is modernizing its data and analytics ecosystem - transitioning from monolithic, VM-based systems to a multi‑tenant, multi‑cloud platform designed for scale, reliability, and speed of innovation. With platforms operating in both AWS and Azure, this position creates a unique opportunity to define unified practices, tooling, and standards across both environments.

As Director of Platform Engineering, you will lead this transformation, setting the strategic direction, design, and delivery of the foundational platform systems that empower every engineering team to build, deploy, and operate software efficiently, securely, and reliably. You will define and execute the platform strategy, lead high‑performing teams, and ensure that our internal developer platform accelerates productivity, strengthens system resilience, and optimizes cloud usage across the enterprise.

• Define and execute a multi‑cloud platform engineering strategy that accelerates delivery of our data services and client‑facing analytics products while reducing total run cost.
• Lead multiple globally distributed teams responsible for cloud platform architecture, automation, observability, developer experience, and infrastructure scalability.
• Drive adoption of self‑service infrastructure and CI/CD capabilities, enabling teams to ship software quickly and reliably across AWS and Azure.
• Partner with product, security, and data leaders to ensure secure‑by‑design practices and compliant platform practices are embedded across services.
• Implement robust SLOs, monitoring, and incident response processes to enhance system reliability.
• Champion a Fin Ops mindset - embedding cost awareness into engineering decisions, establishing spend dashboards, and balancing performance with efficiency across compute, storage, and data transfer.
• Foster a culture of automation, continuous improvement, and developer enablement across the engineering organization.
• Stay ahead of emerging trends in cloud‑native, Dev Ops, and platform tooling to inform technical direction and architectural evolution.
• Mentor and develop senior engineering leaders, establishing pathways for talent growth and operational excellence.

• You’ll lead through influence - aligning engineering excellence with business priorities, simplifying complex systems, and fostering a culture where platform reliability and developer productivity are shared goals across all teams.
• As a senior technology leader, you’ll…