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• Developing and executing strategies that ensure the reliability, scalability, and security of our platforms
  
• Designing and implementing cloud-based infrastructure (e.g., AWS or Azure) that supports our environmental architecture
  
• Building robust processes for monitoring system performance and identifying potential issues before they become problematic
  
• Working with cross-functional teams to identify requirements for new systems or tools that support business growth
  
• Managing a team of Platform Engineers, providing leadership, training, coaching, and mentoring as required
  
• Developing security protocols that ensure compliance with industry standards (e.g., GDPR, Cyber Essential +)
  
• Staying up to date with emerging trends in cloud-based technologies, evaluating new technologies/ software solutions as necessary to improve efficiency or scale our operations
  
• Ensuring high levels of availability by designing disaster recovery plans that minimize downtime in case of system failures or disasters
  
• Collaborating with our Operational Team, Data Engineering and Data Governance teams to ensure that our platforms adhere to our governance, policies, and standards
  
• Developing metrics to measure performance and reliability of the data platform and monitoring these metrics regularly to identify areas for improvement or enhancement
  
• Working with stakeholders across the organization to understand their needs and design solutions that meet their requirements.
• Developing training programs for colleagues, on how to use the various platform effectively

• A starting salary of £70,000 - £90,000 plus up to 17% annual bonus
  
• 32 days holiday inclusive of bank holidays, plus the option to purchase up to 5 more days
  
• 2 fully paid Community Volunteering days every year
  
• An excellent pension and 8x salary Life Assurance scheme
  
• A huge range of high street retailer discounts to help with cost of living via MyArco Perks
  
• Free, 24-hour access to our Employee Assistance Programme
  
• Access to our Learning Management System, to support your personal and career development
  
• Long-term service awards – we’re proud to have employees who have worked for us for 40 years

• Specialist Platform Engineering experience with significant experience in a lead platform engineering role driving insights for a mid to large business (£200m+)
  
• Demonstrable and financially impactful experience in delivering financial, growth and margin related insights for customers, products, services and operations
  
• Educated to degree level or equivalent is desirable
  
• Experience building Cloud Platforms (ideally using Microsoft Azure, Google and AWS ) Skills / experience of Python, Apache Spark, SQL and Data Lake-houses are also desirable
  
• Experience working with CI/ CD, Terraform, domain structures, user authentication, and digital signatures
  
• Good understanding of platform architecture and related services, project/ change management principles and delivery frameworks and methodologies and the ability to strongly influence and collaborate with these roles
  
• Advanced Excel Skills and operational knowledge of PIM/MDM systems
• Ability to influence stakeholders at all levels; contextualise technical concepts as drivers of commercial performance, challenge assumptions and the status quo

About Us

As the UK’s leading integrated health and safety experts, Arco combine multi-channel distribution of 170,000+ products with specialist training, consultancy, and site services. Our history spans over almost 140 years, and we are at the start of an exciting new chapter, with ambitions to make us more profitable and sustainable, following the recent appointment of our new CEO.

We’re 100% committed to developing our business in a way that benefits our people, our customers, the communities we serve and the planet. We are now moving forward through a period of change as we begin to align our culture, behaviours and ways of working to drive performance and ensures we will succeed together and be rewarded for that shared success. Because It’s on us. To deliver. Together.

Our behaviours; Perform, Care, Collaborate and Deliver, create and turn in to tangible actions, and we’re now looking to recruit a Platform Engineering Manager who can align to these behaviours, and help us achieve our goals.