Lead Platform Engineer - Sweden

About the role

Allica Bank is expanding into Sweden and is looking for a founding Lead Platform Engineer to set the technical foundation of its cloud self-service platform. You will report directly to the CTO and work closely with the UK Platform Engineering Team on shared standards and tooling. The role is hands-on: you build alongside the team, make consequential technical decisions independently from day one, and mentor platform engineers as the function grows.

Key responsibilities

• Own Allica Sweden's instance of the Allica platform, adapting the UK stack for Sweden: landing zones, subscriptions, network topology, container runtime and resilience patterns.
• Build the reusable core: Terraform modules, deployment templates and platform services that let product teams self-serve production-grade infrastructure.
• Deliver all infrastructure through Terraform and secure CI/CD, so every change is automated, repeatable and reversible.
• Embed security, governance and compliance into the platform, with auditable evidence rather than just intent.
• Own reliability and run cost, lead the response to complex incidents and drive out repeat causes.
• Lead and mentor platform engineers while staying hands-on in architecture and the hardest technical problems.

Required profile

• A strong track record of architecting and running production cloud environments at scale, with production accountability for systems that matter.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• Fluent English.
• Nice to have: experience in regulated industries, Kubernetes and serverless, Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions, and FinOps and operational resilience.

Required skills

• Extensive cloud experience, primarily Azure with GCP as secondary.
• Fluency in landing zone and subscription design, private networking, containerized compute, API management and resilience patterns.
• Extensive hands-on experience with Terraform, identity and observability at scale.

What we offer

• Full onboarding support and continued development opportunities.
• Flexible and hybrid working.
• Regular social activities, pension contributions and discretionary bonus scheme.
• Private health cover and life assurance.
• Family-friendly policies including enhanced maternity and paternity leave.