Experteer Overview Senior Principal Platform Lead at IFS owns and executes the Internal Developer Platform vision. You’ll define golden paths, service catalog, and self-service scaffolding, driving adoption across product teams. The role blends architectural thinking with hands-on delivery to improve developer experience and reduce friction. You will influence platform strategy at scale and mentor senior engineers, all while communicating clearly to non-technical stakeholders.Compensaciones / Incentivos
- Own the IDP vision, roadmap, and end-to-end execution (service catalogue, self-service scaffolding, golden paths, CI/CD integration, developer portals)
- Own the Nexus platform developer experience from service creation to production observability
- Collaborate with Kairos, Nexus, Auth, Base Tech, and product teams to deliver cohesive experiences
- Define platform standards to make the right approach easy and obviously better
- Drive measurable adoption metrics (onboarding time, self-service completion, platform NPS, time-to-first-deployment, DORA metrics)
- Integrate authentication/authorization into the IDP self-service model
- Prioritize and fix based on feedback from NGA product teams and IFS Ru0026D domain teams
- Partner with IAM, infrastructure, and SRE to ensure a coherent, reliable,



secure surface for developers
- Establish feedback loops (surveys, usage analytics, office hours) and act on them
- Influence platform strategy at the architectural level and represent developers in technical leadership forums
- Mentor Principal and Senior platform engineers to raise the DX barResponsabilidades
- 8+ years in platform, infrastructure, or developer-tooling engineering
- Led end-to-end IDP or developer portal (Backstage, Port, Cortex, Choreo)
- Experience shipping developer platforms at enterprise scale and driving adoption
- Deep hands-on infrastructure knowledge (Kubernetes, GitOps, IaC, CI/CD, secrets management, observability)
- Shipped golden paths, service templates, and CI/CD standardisation at scale
- Customer-centric view of internal developers; experience with surveysand metrics to prioritise
- Ability to communicate platform strategy to engineering leaders and product directors
- Experience in large, distributed engineering organisations and building platform trust
- Go (backend), React/Next.Js (frontend), Kafka/RedPanda, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes (AKS) familiarity
- Strong non-technical communication for non-engineering stakeholdersRequisitos principales
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📌 Senior Principal Platform Lead || Internal Developer Platform (Madrid)
🏢 Ifs
📍 Madrid