Platform Engineering Manager
About Euromonitor
Euromonitor International leads the world in data analytics and research into markets, industries, economies and consumers. We provide truly global insight and data on thousands of products and services; we are the first destination for organisations seeking growth. With our guidance, our clients can make bold, strategic decisions with confidence.
Overview of the role
The Platform Engineering Manager leads Cloud Engineering and Platform Engineering teams distributed globally, creating the conditions for engineers to do their best work. The role is a people-first leadership position with strong technical leadership accountability: setting direction, removing obstacles, and ensuring the team delivers reliable platform capabilities that enable product teams to move quickly and safely.
The Manager partners closely with Team Leaders to build a healthy, inclusive, and high-performing culture grounded in trust and psychological safety. They hire, coach, and develop engineers and leaders through regular 1:1s, feedback, and performance reviews, applying servant leadership and demonstrating empathy for day-to-day engineering challenges (delivery pressure, incidents, technical debt, ambiguity) while supporting sustainable pace.
The Manager provides technical leadership focused on enabling product teams through value-add platform services and capabilities. They bring a deep understanding of the problems software engineers face when building and running products-delivery friction, environment inconsistency, reliability issues, security constraints, and managing technical debt-and use that insight to shape platform roadmaps, standards, and guardrails that remove toil and accelerate delivery.
They own the team's backlog and roadmap, aligning stakeholders on outcomes and priorities: gathering requirements and feedback, translating them into well-shaped work items, and facilitating collaboration across teams. They ensure functional and non-functional requirements are captured, and they play a key role in FinOps governance to manage public cloud costs responsibly. When critical issues occur, the Manager helps coordinate an effective response to restore service quickly and drive learning through clear follow-up actions.
