UK retail bank
From 14-week onboarding to a 40-minute golden path.
A Backstage-fronted IDP replaced a sprawl of bespoke tooling. New service to production now takes a single PR.
London, United Kingdom
An engineering centre of excellence on the banks of the Thames.
Our London studio specialises in building next-generation Internal Developer Platforms. We combine a rigorous approach to system architecture with a deep passion for Developer Experience - bridging the gap between complex cloud, cloud-native, IoT, DevOps, AI, and automation estates (container orchestration with Kubernetes and OpenShift, serverless, service mesh, and the wider cloud native stack) and seamless developer workflows.
220+
Platform engineers based in London
14
FTSE 100 clients on UK platforms
2,400
Microservices managed across UK estates
99.97%
Platform availability across 2025
What we build in London
Internal Developer Platforms that engineers actually want to use.
An IDP is only worth building if it makes the day-to-day measurably better. Ours start with the developer's terminal, not the cloud provider's console - and earn their place by removing toil, not adding ceremony.
The studio's flagship is the Tata Internal Developer Platform - built on the CNCF project Meshery and used both inside Tata and by clients of our strategic engagements.
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Developer Experience surface
CLI - portal - IDE plugins - PR-driven workflows - golden paths
02
Platform services
Service catalogue - templates - CI/CD - secrets - observability - policy
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Cloud-native runtime fabric
Container orchestration (Kubernetes, OpenShift) - serverless (Knative, Lambda, Functions) - service mesh (Istio, Linkerd) - multi-tenant isolation - autoscaling
04
Hybrid & multi-cloud infrastructure
AWS - Azure - GCP - on-prem - sovereign UK regions
How we work
Four pillars behind every platform we ship.
Developer Experience first
Every feature we add is judged on the developer's minute-by-minute experience. If a golden path is slower than the workaround, we have failed.
Rigorous architecture
We treat platforms as long-lived products. Architecture decisions are recorded, contested, and reviewed - never inherited by accident.
Production from day one
Nothing leaves the studio without an SLO, a runbook, and an on-call rota. Demos are nice; pagers at 03:00 are the real test.
Open by default
We build on - and contribute back to - the cloud, cloud-native, DevOps, AI, and automation ecosystems your engineers already trust: Kubernetes, OpenShift, OpenTelemetry, Backstage, Meshery, Argo, and the wider technology landscape.
Inside the studio
A working office, not a showroom.
Our floor in the City sits between client teams, the open-source contributors we sponsor, and a quiet corner of whiteboards where most of the good ideas actually start.
Platform design review, every Tuesday morning
The view from the eleventh floor
Tech we are fluent in
The stack underneath, kept deliberately boring.
We pick technologies that our clients' engineers will still want to maintain in five years - and contribute back when the gaps are ours to fix.
Container orchestration (Kubernetes, OpenShift)
Serverless (Knative, Lambda, Functions)
Argo CD & Argo Workflows
Backstage
Meshery
Terraform & OpenTofu
Istio & Linkerd
OpenTelemetry
Prometheus & Grafana
Cilium & eBPF
HashiCorp Vault
SPIFFE / SPIRE
GitHub Actions & GitLab CI
Go & Rust
TypeScript
Python & FastAPI
AWS - Azure - GCP
"
The job of a platform team is to make the right thing the easy thing. Everything else - the diagrams, the Helm charts, the bank-grade controls - is in service of that single test.Eleanor Whitcombe - Director, London Engineering Centre of Excellence
Recent work, in confidence
All case studies
What good looks like, in production.
FTSE 100 insurer
A multi-tenant cloud-native estate without the sharp edges.
Cilium-based isolation, SPIFFE identities, and a paved road for workload migration off legacy VMs.
UK public sector
An IDP that meets the NCSC Cyber Assessment Framework.
Sovereign-region clusters, evidence-on-demand, and a developer portal that auditors actually like reading.
Visit the studio
17 Old Bailey, EC4M.
Two minutes from St Paul's tube, opposite the Central Criminal Court. There is decent coffee on the ground floor and better coffee one street over.
London - Engineering Centre of Excellence
17 Old BaileyLondon EC4M 7EG
United Kingdom +44 20 7220 0800 london@tata-consulting.co.uk
Nearest tube: St Paul's (Central line), 2 min walk.
Step-free access from Newgate Street entrance.