This job is with Kraft Heinz, an inclusive employer and a member of myGwork – the largest global platform for the LGBTQ business community. Please do not contact the recruiter directly. Job Description Job Title: Group Lead IT, Platform Engineering Band: 11 Location: Bangalore, India Reports to: Paul Eastman, Head of Product Platforms & Engineering (PP&E;) Job Summary Kraft Heinz's Product Platforms & Engineering (PP&E;) organisation is building a single, India-based Platform Engineering capability that brings our DevOps and Quality Engineering platform teams together under one leader. This is a brand-new leadership role: you will design, build and run the team, the toolset and the operating model from the outset, rather than inherit an established function. The mission of the Platform Engineering function is to make it quick, safe and easy for every engineer at Kraft Heinz, human or AI-assisted, to build, test and run high-quality digital products. You will own the full platform stack end to end: CI/CD, project management, observability,



and the Quality Engineering and test automation toolset. You will define the platform's strategy, service catalogue and governance, and you will lead a growing India-based team of managers and engineers, working closely with our delivery partner HCLTech under our "Autonomous Operations" model. This role sits on the PP&E; leadership team alongside the Product Engineering Chapter Lead and the Power Platform Lead, and is directly accountable for modernising a large technology estate, and aligning platform delivery to Kraft Heinz's Reference Architecture. Key Responsibilities Platform Strategy & Governance Own and evolve the strategy for the combined DevOps and Quality Engineering platform, defining the service catalogue, availability, configuration and release lifecycle for each capability. Govern the platforms that enable Kraft Heinz's engineering community to build, test, deploy and operate digital products, and be accountable for servi

📌 Group Lead IT, Platform Engineering (Karnataka)
🏢 Kraft Heinz
📍 Karnataka