- Working with the wider team and taking input from the founders / Board, develop a fit-for-purpose platform engineering strategy for the 2 flagship products that delivers on time-to-market, gives them a competitive edge whilst maximising the return on investment.

- Take ownership for delivering new releases with brand new features, incremental additions, and changes to the platform within the agreed business parameters around schedule, scope, budget and quality.

- Take ownership of the development of the technical strategy and product roadmap

- Provide leadership and set the tone for the development excellence necessary to deliver a digital platform of scale in line with our platform strategy

- Ensure the appropriate technical resources, processes, controls, tools and performance measures are in place to support the achievement of the strategic plan.

- Implement mechanisms to prioritise, monitor, manage and provide progress on all product development activities

- In conjunction with the development teams in India, maintain and continuously improve the existing software systems, always looking for cost and technological efficiency

- Experienced in the development and operation of large-scale, mission critical digital platforms

- Experience of multi-technologies and more than one recognised industry standard language (e.g.  Java, C#, Angular) ideally with some knowledge of additional languages e.g. Python

- Experience of architecting and designing complex Amazon cloud-based platforms

- Experience of developing and constantly evolving a product strategy considering target audience, external market factors, competitive landscape, commercial criteria

- Experience of setting, leading, and delivering against technical projects and strategy in a highly commercial environment

- Experience managing a team

- Knowledge of AWS Cloud

- Experience handling large data sources

- Experience managing platforms & products in an e-commerce, SME or student focused setting (desirable)