Platform Engineering Manager

Platform Engineering Manager | Sunderland | Hybrid working (3 days in office)

We’re supporting a major UK organisation undergoing significant transformation, including a large-scale migration from Oracle E‐Business Suite to Oracle Fusion ERP. They are looking for an Platform Engineering Manager who can bring strong leadership, deep applications expertise, and stability across a complex, fast‐moving environment. The Platform Engineering Manager will oversee a diverse enterprise applications estate spanning Finance, HR, Operations and Customer/Commercial domains.

What you’ll be doing

• Leading and developing a multi-disciplinary team across applications and platforms.
• Overseeing the performance, reliability, and security of a wide range of enterprise applications.
• Supporting major programmes such as ERP migrations (including EBS → Fusion).
• Driving high standards across incident, problem, change and release processes.
• Overseeing integrations, data flows, upgrades, patching and platform lifecycle management.
• Working closely with Product, Architecture, and wider IT teams to deliver meaningful business change.

What we’re looking for

• Proven track record supporting ERP platforms (Oracle EBS, Fusion, or similar).
• Experience working on large-scale migrations or transformation programmes.
• Exposure to integrations, APIs, automation, and modern engineering practices.
• Knowledge of underpinning Tech Services (Azure/AWS) is beneficial but not essential.
• Confident stakeholder engagement and the ability to simplify technical issues.
• Experience leading and developing application support or platform engineering teams.