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Product and Platform Specialist
£130,000 - 143,000
Stackstudio Digital Ltd.
Trafalgar Square, South East London
£130,000 - 143,000
Requirements
Must:
- 12 years in platform, product, or observability engineering roles, with principal-level responsibility.
- Strong experience with OpenTelemetry (OTEL) ecosystems.
- Deep understanding of Kafka-based data pipelines.
- Proven experience with time-series databases (e.g., Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, OpenSearch, InfluxDB, etc.).
- Platform design for large-scale, distributed systems.
- Strong knowledge of open-source observability stacks.
- Experience driving POCs into enterprise-grade solutions.
- Proven experience engaging with CIOs and senior technology leaders.
- Ability to articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
- Strong documentation and storytelling skills.
Responsibilities
- Define and own the product vision and platform roadmap for observability and telemetry platforms.
- Lead blueprint and target-state architecture for OTEL-based data collection, Kafka ingestion, and time-series data storage.
- Drive tool finalization and POC execution, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards and non-functional requirements.
- Own platform scope including: OTEL Collectors, OTEL Agents, OPAM Agents, Data pipelines to Kafka Bus, Time-series and telemetry data storage.
- Ensure platform designs support high scale, low latency, resiliency, and extensibility.
- Act as the primary platform representative in CIO and senior leadership discussions.
- Translate executive requirements into clear product capabilities, milestones, and success metrics.
- Present architecture options, trade-offs, and ROI-driven recommendations.
- Capture and convert enterprise and CIO requirements into epics, features, and user stories.
- Work closely with Business Analysts to ensure documentation quality and traceability.
- Collaborate with Architects, Designers, Developers to guide teams on best practices and reusable platform components.
Description
We are seeking a Product and Platform Specialist to take ownership of the entire product and platform strategy for our observability and telemetry ecosystem in London. This role will allow you to work with OTEL collectors, OTEL/OPAM agents, Kafka-based data pipelines, and time-series data platforms. We offer a collaborative environment where you can engage with CIO-level stakeholders and cross-functional teams. This position is a 6-month contract, and we are excited to welcome a new team member who can help shape our platform capabilities.
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