Platform Manager Integrations

Primark
Reading, UK
7 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
5 years minimum
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) Agile Methodology Computing Platforms Software as a Service Continuous Integration DevOps Systems Integration Low Latency Integration Frameworks Api Management

Job description

  • Own the Integration Platform vision and strategy, defining a multi-year roadmap for APIs, gateways, and connectivity services aligned to business strategy, OKRs, and market trends.
  • Lead delivery, prioritisation, and execution across the Integration Platform, including progress tracking, dependency management, and escalation handling.
  • Manage senior stakeholders and funding by driving alignment across technology and business leaders, securing investment through business cases or funding drawdowns.
  • Ensure platform reliability, performance, and control by overseeing availability, incident remediation, audit findings, and the effectiveness of embedded controls.
  • Oversee financials, resourcing, and vendor relationships, including budget management, ROI tracking, capacity planning, and commercial management of third-party partners.
  • Drive adoption and customer success by ensuring effective collaboration with stakeholders, enabling teams, and platform users, ensuring new capabilities are successfully adopted.

Requirements

  • Extensive product leadership experience with 10-15 years in product management, including 5+ years owning API, integration, or developer platforms in SaaS, fintech, or large-scale enterprise environments.
  • Deep technical and platform expertise across high-volume integration platforms, API lifecycle management, integration standards, security/authentication, observability, and platform operations.
  • Proven track record of scaling platforms from transformation through production, delivering high adoption, low latency, secure ecosystems, and effective release, upgrade, and governance practices.
  • Strong strategic and analytical capability, able to define platform strategy and execution, model adoption and performance trade-offs, and articulate clear business value and ROI.
  • Executive-level stakeholder and commercial management experience, including influencing senior leaders, managing complex stakeholder landscapes, securing funding, and overseeing budgets, vendors, and licensing agreements.
  • Collaborative, delivery-focused leader with strong communication skills, experienced in leading cross-functional teams using Agile, DevOps, CI/CD practices, and driving continuous improvement, resilience, and operational excellence.

Benefits & conditions

People are at the heart of what we do here, so it’s essential we provide you with the right environment to perform at your very best.

  • Healthcare
  • Potential Bonus
  • 27 days of leave, plus bank holidays and you can buy 5 more
  • Tax Saver Tickets
  • Fitness centre
  • Subsidised cafeteria

This role is a hybrid opportunity, offering 1-2 days Working from home.

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