Platform Squad Lead

The role

The Platform squad lead is a vital role within the Blenheim Chalcot portfolio and Modulr. In this role you will be responsible for overseeing Platform engineers, driving efficiency, and ensuring high-quality delivery. The role is a blend of technical leadership, people management, process improvement, and operational excellence.
In this role you will develop a high performing squad to foster an environment where agency is the priority and, where appropriate, decisions are made and communicated effectively. You will work closely with your Engineering manager to communicate progress and achievements whilst delivering through others.

Key Responsibilities

• Coach and lead a squad of approximately six Platform engineers on a day-to-day basis, fostering a culture of collaboration and high performance.
• Regularly review code to help all engineers grow and develop, to help individuals to progress through the Modulr career framework. · Communicate with Modulites across all levels about your squad’s progress and any challenges they are facing.
• Squad planning and delegation of tasks to ensure the team are in the right roles with clearly defined responsibilities and projects are resourced appropriately to ensure success.
• Play a key role in the hiring process including interviewing, assessing candidates, and representing Modulr’s mission, strategy, and culture throughout the interview process.
• Oversee the onboarding process for new joiners to ensure a smooth transition into the team.
• Drive people development activity including conducting regular team meetings, one-on-ones, and performance reviews.
• Work with the DevOps Manager to set and track performance goals for individual team members, and the squad as a whole, providing constructive feedback and recognition as appropriate.
• Develop, and experiment with, new standards and patterns to continuously improve the technical excellence of the team.
• Use your experience to lead and guide on architectural decisions
• Identify and implement process improvements to increase efficiency and effectiveness.
• Identify potential risks and mitigate them to ensure the success of projects.
• Participate in the on-call rota.
• Foster a culture of experimentation within the squad to facilitate continuous learning and improvement.
• Regularly report on the squad's progress, outcomes, and achievements to the wider Engineering organization and to their Engineering Manager.
• Actively seek and share squad experiences within the wider Engineering organization to promote cross-team learning and collaboration.

About you

The successful Platform Squad lead will play a key role in leading and shaping their squad to deliver excellence in all they do, helping us to continue to deliver and innovate for our customers.

Skills and experience we're interested in

• Demonstrable years of experience as a Senior Platform engineer or equivalent.
• Recent hands-on delivery examples
• Strong understanding of platform engineering processes and practices.
• Previous experience managing/mentoring multi-site technical teams in an agile environment.
• Proven experience in platform development and team leadership.
• Participated in the hiring process to recruit skilled engineers and led the onboarding process to integrate new hires into the team smoothly.
• Provided technical leadership in several areas of platform development and stayed updated with the latest industry trends.
• Conducted regular performance reviews and provided constructive feedback to the team members.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work under pressure.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with a proven ability to manage and motivate a team

About Blenheim Chalcot

Blenheim Chalcot is one of the leading venture builders in the world. We have been building exciting and disruptive businesses for over 26 years across sectors including FinTech, EdTech, GovTech, Media, Sport, Charity and more. These companies are all GenAI enabled and are some of the most innovative companies in the UK and increasingly around the world.

The BC team in India has been instrumental to the growth and success of Blenheim Chalcot. Established in 2014, Blenheim Chalcot India serves as a pivotal launchpad for those aiming to make a difference in the realm of innovation and entrepreneurship.

Blenheim Chalcot India is driven by a mission to empower visionaries to lead, innovate, and build disruptive solutions. We support our diverse portfolio of ventures and create impactful solutions that shape global trends. We provide a range of services to help new business get off the ground, including technology, growth (marketing and sales), talent, HR, finance, legal and tax, plus so much more!

One of our FinTech ventures, Modulr, is scaling fast and we’re looking to hire high energy, motivated and curious talent to support them on that journey!

About Modulr

At Modulr our mission is to move money efficiently to power business productivity. We are building a new digital payments service to make money flow more efficiently through businesses and the economy. This is a new type of payments account that is built for businesses that need faster, easier and more reliable ways to move money. Our flexible platform and innovate approach allow our customers to utilize our payments account instead of a traditional bank account. Our accounts come with a sort code and account number, access to payment systems (eg Faster Payments and Visa) and everything our customers need from a payments account. They can instantly open as many accounts as they need, automate how they make and receive payments as well as the reconciliation processes these create. All in real time, 24/7 through their own systems utilising our API that integrates into any platform. Our founding team has a wealth of experience in the payments industry and growing successful businesses. Modulr is backed by payments giants PayPal Ventures and FIS Ventures, as well as startup and scale up specialists Blenheim Chalcot, General Atlantic, Frog and Highland Europe which enables us to leverage their resources and expertise to drive our growth initiatives. These partnerships provide us with the necessary provisions to propel our business to new heights.

Modulr values

• Building the extraordinary and going that extra mile
• Owning the opportunity, be passionate and proud of the time you invest
• Move at pace, reach your goals faster with us supporting you each step of the way
• Achieve it together, working as a team and being Modulite

What we can offer you

• Be part of the World’s Leading Digital Venture Builder
• Have the opportunity to be a part of and learn from the incredible diverse talent in BC
• Be exposed to the right mix of challenges, within a culture that promotes continuous learning and development and opportunity to work with Gen AI
• A fun and open, if a little cricket obsessed, atmosphere – we own the Rajasthan Royals IPL team!
• 24 days of annual leave &10 public holiday days
• Private Medical for you and your immediate family & Life Insurance for yourself

Important

At Blenheim Chalcot, we strive to create an environment where differences are not only accepted but greatly valued; where everyone can make the most of their capabilities and potential. We promote meritocracy, competence and the sharing of ideas and opinions. We are driven by data and believe the diversity, agility, generosity, and curiosity of our people is what sets us apart as an organization. Our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion is evident through our constant focus on recruiting, developing and advancing individuals based on their skills and talent.