Group Lead IT, Platform Engineering
The Kraft Heinz Company (company site, opens in a new tab)8+ yrsBengaluruOn-siteDirect career pageEst. 30–48 LPA
Posted on 9 Sept
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About This Role
- Design, build, and lead the India-based Platform Engineering team, owning the full platform stack including CI/CD, project management, observability, and quality engineering toolsets.
- Define and execute platform strategy, governance, service catalog, and alignment with Kraft Heinz's Reference Architecture, including toolset rationalization of 20+ technologies.
- Manage delivery partners under an 'Autonomous Operations' model, ensuring secure, high-performance platform services and lead the modernization of Quality Engineering towards AI-powered automation.
Minimum Requirements
- 8+ years in IT/engineering with significant leadership in DevOps, platform engineering, or quality engineering roles.
- Proven experience managing and scaling teams, including managing managers in an international or offshore India delivery context.
- Hands-on expertise with enterprise DevSecOps tools (GitHub, Azure DevOps, Jira, Confluence) and quality engineering/testing tools (e.g., HP ALM/Worksoft, Selenium).
- Experience with platform strategy, governance, outsourced delivery partner management, and cloud platforms (preferably Microsoft Azure).
Ideal Candidate Profile
- Experienced in leading platform engineering functions within large, globally distributed organizations and managing senior stakeholders including VP/CIO levels.
- Strong strategic and operational focus on platform modernization, simplifying complex tool ecosystems, and embedding security/compliance controls.
- Proven capability in building high performing technical teams and driving adoption of AI-assisted engineering or test automation tools is preferred but not mandatory.