Platform Owner

The Platform Owner supports the delivery, evolution, and operation of a strategic enterprise platform or capability. Working under the guidance of a Lead Platform Owner, the Platform Owner is responsible for managing day-to-day platform services, coordinating platform engineering activities, and helping ensure the platform remains reliable, secure, current, and easy for teams to consume.

While not accountable for the end-to-end value or outcomes of the platform, the Platform Owner plays a critical supporting role in delivering that value. They contribute to the platform roadmap, assist with service improvements, and help drive adoption of self-service capabilities that enable Portfolios, Projects, and Product Teams to deliver more effectively.

The role supports the management of the platform’s technology, tooling, and operational processes, including involvement in tooling assessments, renewals, lifecycle management, and continuous improvement activities (with architectural oversight and approval processes led by the senior role).

The Platform Owner works closely with engineering, architecture, security, and delivery teams to maintain strong standards, reduce friction, improve developer experience, and enhance the overall reliability of the platform. This role is both hands-on and coordination-focused, serving as a bridge between users of the platform, the platform engineering team, and the Lead Platform Owner.

This role provides an excellent development opportunity for someone progressing toward full platform leadership, gradually building capability in roadmap ownership, strategic decision-making, service management, and value-focused platform thinking.

We operate on a team led hybrid approach, with one to two days per week on site. Role requires flexibility to travel to other sites for key meetings and collaborative working subject to business demand, as well as participation in an on call rota and planned weekend maintenance activities. Role will be based in Coventry.

Our benefits include:

• 28 days holiday a year plus bank holidays and a holiday buy/sell scheme
• Annual discretionary bonus scheme
• Personal pension with matched contributions
• Life assurance (6 times annual salary)

Find out more about the fantastic benefits of joining Coventry Building Society here.

We reserve the right to close this advert early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.

You’ll bring experience in engineering, platform support or technical product ownership with a strong understanding of how platforms underpin the delivery of software and services across an enterprise.

For this role you’ll need to have:

• A proactive approach to improving platform usability, reliability, and adoption, with a strong desire to grow into greater leadership responsibility over time.
• An understanding of the importance of standards, automation, security, and self-service, and you enjoy working collaboratively with engineers and stakeholders to solve problems and improve outcomes.
• Communication skills which allow you to translate technical topics into clear, understandable language
• Be comfortable working across different teams to gather feedback, prioritise improvements, and help ensure the platform continues to evolve effectively.
• Good understanding of engineering and platform concepts across cloud, infrastructure, and software
• Experience working with technology platforms or shared services in a delivery or support capacity
• Ability to contribute to platform planning, service improvements, and operational processes
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to coordinate work across team
• Oracle DBA experience in enterprise environments.
• Proven ownership of large-scale Oracle database platforms supporting critical services.
• Proven technical leadership across Oracle Database, WebLogic and Fusion Middleware platforms.
• Strong expertise in RAC, Data Guard, RMAN, OEM, ASM and Oracle performance tuning.
• Experience managing Oracle databases across on-premises and cloud environments.
• Strong understanding of database resilience, disaster recovery and security controls.
• Experience leading database transformation, upgrade and cloud migration programmes.
• Knowledge of PostgreSQL, MS-SQL Server and DB2

Experience in these areas would be helpful:

• Exposure to platform engineering, internal developer platforms, or self-service capability development
• Familiarity with service management practices and platform operations
• Experience contributing to standards, guidance, or documentation for a platform
• Participation in tooling assessments, technical evaluations, or technology lifecycle activities

Full-time 35 hours

In 2025, Coventry Building Society purchased The Co-operative Bank. Bringing together our purpose-led building society with the UK’s original ethical bank was the start of an exciting journey.

Trusted by over four million people, we’re a mutually owned business free from shareholders, and with our combined experience of almost 300 years, our ethics and dedication will continue to guide us. Together, we have shared values and an ethical approach towards our members, customers and colleagues.

We’re officially recognised as a ‘Great Place to Work’ and our benefits go beyond basic pay, with a discretionary bonus scheme, a culture of reward and recognition and comprehensive support for wellbeing. In 2025, Coventry Building Society purchased The Co-operative Bank. Bringing together our purpose-led building society with the UK’s original ethical bank was the start of an exciting journey.

Trusted by over four million people, we’re a mutually owned business free from shareholders, and with our combined experience of almost 300 years, our ethics and dedication will continue to guide us. Together, we have shared values and an ethical approach towards our members, customers and colleagues.

We’re officially recognised as a ‘Great Place to Work’ and our benefits go beyond basic pay, with a discretionary bonus scheme, a culture of reward and recognition and comprehensive support for wellbeing. 

We’re serious about equality, of race, age, faith, disability, and sexual orientation and we celebrate diversity. By working together, we know you’ll build more than just a career with us.

Flexibility and why it matters

We understand the need for flexibility, so wherever possible, we’ll consider alternative working patterns. Have a chat with us before you apply to see what the possibilities are for this role.                                                                                               

Proud to be a Disability Confident Committed Employer

We’re proud to offer an interview or assessment to every disabled applicant who meet the minimum criteria for our vacancies. As part of the application process, disabled applicants can opt in for the Disability Confident Interview Scheme. If there are ever occasions where it is not practicable to interview all candidates that meet the essential criteria, such as when we receive a high number of applications, we commit to interviewing disabled candidates who best meet the minimum essential and desirable criteria.