About: Ascent has recently been acquired by Acuity Analytics. This is both a significant milestone for us and a tremendous opportunity for you. Acuity Analytics is a business with a strong global reputation, an impressive client base, and ambitious growth plans. We deliver deep insights and domain-led digital transformation to high-growth and heavily regulated organisations. To our customers, we bring a partnership that provides the talent, technology, and capability to enhance performance and operational efficiency.
Responsibilities:
•Define and evolve Acuity Analytics' Cloud & Platform Engineering strategy
•Shape architectural standards, engineering principles, and platform best practices across the organisation
•Identify emerging technologies and strategic opportunities that support business growth and technical innovation
•Lead the design and review of complex cloud-native and platform solutions
•Act as the escalation point for critical technical challenges and high-impact engineering decisions
•Conduct technical reviews, engineering audits, and quality assessments across delivery teams
•Drive improvements in engineering tooling, developer productivity, and platform capabilities
•Collaborate closely with clients, delivery teams, architects, and engineering leaders to solve complex business problems
•Mentor engineers and support the development of future technical leaders
•Contribute to recruitment activities, helping identify exceptional engineering talent and ensuring strong cultural alignment
•Represent Acuity Analytics internally and externally through thought leadership, community engagement, speaking opportunities, and technical content
Requirements:
•Must be based in the UK, Malta, Bulgaria or Portugal
•Extensive hands-on experience designing and delivering cloud solutions on Microsoft Azure
•Deep understanding of cloud architecture, landing zones, governance, security, and scalable platform design
•Strong experience in Platform Engineering, including: Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs), Developer Experience (DevEx), CI/CD pipelines, Containerisation and orchestration (Kubernetes), Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices
•Proven experience architecting and delivering large-scale distributed systems in production environments
•Strong expertise with Infrastructure as Code, including Terraform and Bicep
•Ability to write production-quality code and provide hands-on technical leadership when required
•Strong understanding of DevOps principles, automation, observability, and cloud-native engineering practices
•Experience shaping technical strategy at an organisational, practice, or enterprise level
•Proven ability to mentor engineers and develop technical leaders
•Strong stakeholder management and executive communication skills
•Ability to translate technical complexity into business value and strategic outcomes
•Experience leading cross-functional initiatives and aligning multiple teams around a shared technical vision
•Passionate about engineering excellence and continuous improvement
•Curious about emerging technologies and industry trends
•Collaborative, empathetic, and capable of building strong relationships across technical and business teams
•Comfortable making decisions in ambiguous situations and communicating them with confidence
•Driven to create lasting organisational impact through technology, people, and process improvements
Conditions:
•Opportunity to influence engineering at scale while working alongside some of the industry's most talented engineers and technology leaders
•Define the future of Cloud & Platform Engineering across the organisation
•Work on complex, high-impact challenges for leading enterprise clients
•Drive innovation and adoption of modern cloud-native technologies
•Mentor and develop the next generation of engineering leaders
•Shape engineering standards, practices, and technical strategy across the business
•Join a collaborative, supportive, and high-performing engineering culture
