Platform Engineer - Performance (Business Analysis)

This role reports to the Senior Manager - Platform Reliability & Performance within Group Platform Engineering.

As a Platform Engineer in the Platform Performance team, you will help to develop the product value culture and mindset by focusing on practical methods and practices to improve efficiencies, tracking, and visibility across our deliveries. You will take an active lead in alignment with senior stakeholders, alongside the domain leads, to enable the smooth delivery of our product roadmaps.

You will assist with ensuring domain team accountability with the establishment of KPIs for new products and releases to meaningfully rWe believe in better. And we make it happen.  

The hybrid working expectations for this role are 2 days in the office per week. This role is based in Osterley only. 

What you’ll do 

• Establish effective demand and delivery models - Create and maintain data models to map expected forecasts spend based on volumes including theimpact of product development releases to actuals, clearly identifying any drifts and anomalies

• Embed governance and cost optimisation – Align with central FinOps teamsto identify opportunities for performance improvements and optimisations within our ecosystems and ensure continuous policy alignment

• Drive data-driven decision making - Define and track meaningful KPIs across performance, cost, and utilisation, using insights to help identify areas of improvement for capabilities and upcoming risks

• Engage and influence stakeholders - Advise Stakeholder and leadership teams on costs based on each proposition to enable the business to choose the propositions based on value

• Partner across teams - Work closely with the Product Leads, collaborating on prioritisation of Product roadmaps & known dependencies, supporting the further establishment of a culture of product & value driven delivery across CT&I 

What you'll bring  

• Stakeholder Management and People Skills – able to build strong relationships, demonstrate strong stakeholder management and display proficiency in influencing technical and business teams

• Business Case and Value Realisation – have a proven track record of tracking continuous Improvements within a production ecosystem to ensure featuresand changes are delivering value introducing new KPIs where required

• Data Driven Analysis - exceptional attention to detail, leveraging tools such as Excel, Power BI, and M365 Copilot to review, interpret, and report on financial and management information in an evolving platform 

• Exceptional Communication Skills – demonstrate excellent verbal/written communication and interpersonal skills

• Desire to Learn – show a healthy interest to continuously learn, improve and innovate including learning new technologies

• High level Operational Knowledge – demonstrate an understanding of Content Delivery technical workflows and methodologies, with the ability to articulate potential impacts of improvements and feature releases to a varied audience

Team Overview: 

We design, deliver and operate the platform capabilities that underpin Sky’s content, broadcast and live production engineering, supporting the full lifecycle of content acquisition, processing and distribution across all TV and OTT products across the Group. As part of the Software & Platforms function, the Platform Engineering team plays a critical role in enabling reliable, secure and scalable services. We provide the core platforms, tooling and operational capabilities that allow engineering teams to build, run and evolve services with greater transparency, resilience and cost efficiency. 

The rewards  

There's one thing people can't stop talking about when it comes to #LifeAtSky: the perks. Here’s a taster: 

• Sky Q, for the TV you love all in one place 

• The magic of Sky Glass at an exclusive rate 

• A generous pension package 

• Private healthcare 

• Discounted mobile and broadband 

• A wide range of Sky VIP rewards and experiences 

Inclusion & how you'll work 

We are a Disability Confident Employer, and welcome and encourage applications from all candidates. We will look to ensure a fair and consistent experience for all, and will make reasonable adjustments to support you where appropriate. Please flag any adjustments you need to your recruiter as early as you can. 

We’ve embraced hybrid working and split our time between unique office spaces and the convenience of working from home. You’ll find out more about what hybrid working looks like for your role later on in the recruitment process. 

Your office space: 

Osterley: 

Our Osterley Campus is a 10-minute walk from Syon Lane train station. Or you can hop on one of our free shuttle buses that run to and from Osterley, Gunnersbury, Ealing Broadway and South Ealing tube stations. There’s also plenty of bike shelters and showers. 

On campus, you’ll find 13 subsidised restaurants, cafes, and a Waitrose. You can keep in shape at our subsidised gym, catch the latest shows and movies at our cinema, get your car washed and even get pampered at our beauty salon. 

We'd love to hear from you  

Inventive, forward-thinking minds come together to work in Tech, Product and Data at Sky. It’s a place where you can explore what if, how far, and what next. 

But better doesn’t stop at what we do, it’s how we do it, too. We embrace each other’s differences. We support our community and contribute to a sustainable future for our business and the planet. 

If you believe in better, we’ll back you all the way. 

Just so you know: if your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete a criminal record check. And depending on the role you have applied for and the nature of any convictions you may have, we might have to withdraw the offer.