IDP Solution Architect / Tech Lead

As Port.io authority and design lead, you will own enterprise IDP architecture and guide a distributed engineering team across the UK, Portugal and India. You’ll shape catalogue structure, golden-path patterns, orchestration, and ITSM/CMDB/in observability integrations, enabling developer adoption as the success metric. You’ll work with senior client stakeholders to define roadmaps, mentor engineers, and ensure secure-by-default, self-service capabilities. This role combines hands-on platform design with client-facing leadership to drive transformational outcomes.

• tailored benefits
• continuous growth and development opportunities
• flexible work options
• Learning and Development support
• opportunity to work with senior client stakeholders
• diverse, inclusive team culture

• Build and enable the engineering team, upskilling on architecture, data model, self-service actions, Ocean integrations and RBAC
• Own IDP solution architecture including catalogue structure, golden-path patterns, orchestration (GitHub Actions + Temporal) and API integrations with ServiceNow, CMDB and observability
• Engage with clients to shape roadmap and design decisions based on the MVP delivered by the client
• Align with cloud platform architects to ensure infrastructure patterns feed into the catalogue; define inner-source contribution standards and quality gates
• Design for adoption and governance, focusing on self-service adoption, catalogue health, versioning and onboarding

• Port.io depth: hands-on production Port.io delivery at enterprise scale (blueprints, data model, self-service actions, scorecards, integrations, RBAC)
• 10+ years in software or platform engineering with 3+ years in platform/IDP roles
• Experience as a trusted advisor with senior client stakeholders (workshops, defending designs, roadmaps)
• Coaching track record for upskilling engineering teams on new platforms
• Secure-by-default platform design covering RBAC, secrets, approvals and policy gates

• Client-facing advisory
• cross-functional collaboration
• ability to influence and lead without direct authority
• Orchestration with GitHub Actions
• Temporal or durable workflow engines
• ITSM/ServiceNow, CMDB integrations