Job Description
Software Engineering Manager - Partnerships - London, Greater London
Everyone is welcome at M&S. No exceptions. It’s your background, abilities and that make you, uniquely you.
And when you’re part of M&S, that individuality has the potential to make waves.
Summary
As part of the M&S Software Engineering team, you’ll be joining a well-loved historic brand, working on solutions that serve millions of loyal customers and thousands of colleagues! With ethical values that run right through the company’s core and technology leaders that truly understand software engineers and engineering, it’s an exciting time as we’re redefining ourselves into a digital first and engineering-led organisation, with the quality of our engineering team being a key differentiator.
Job Purpose
We are seeking a passionate Software Engineering Manager who will provide technical expertise, ship thoughtfully and operate with excellence. Being creative, curious, and confident, you will be an integral part of our empowered, self-managing, multi-disciplinary engineering teams - designing, building, releasing, and maintaining products. Working as an equal partner with the Product and Delivery teams, you will deliver sophisticated and robust solutions to solve daring problems for our customers.
You will play a key role in driving our ambition to create a best-in-class software engineering team, environment, and culture. You will be responsible for:
1. The M&S Loyalty Partnerships team engineering; building integrations with strategic partners to provide our customers with access to the unique benefits of shopping with those partners.
2. Operational stability of software solutions owned by your team.
3. Delivering high quality solutions that deliver value to the business.
4. Leading on improving the maturity of the team, progress towards or maintaining Elite DORA Standards.
5. Leading Engineering Excellence and creating a culture of innovation.
6. Making use of Platforms in order to maximise the value delivered by teams.
What You’ll Do
The Software Engineering Manager role is the embodiment of ‘solving problems through technology’ with key responsibilities as follows:
1. Team Management: Build, mentor, and manage a high-performing software engineering team. Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement within the team.
2. Agile Delivery: Oversee the planning, execution, and delivery of software projects, ensuring alignment with business objectives and timelines.
3. Technical Leadership: Drive the adoption of standards and methodologies for software development.
4. Quality Assurance and Maintenance: Establish and enforce quality standards, ensuring software products meet performance, reliability, and usability requirements.
Tech Stack
The team uses the following core technologies: Java / Kotlin, GraphQL Federation, Cloud: Azure, Observability: Dynatrace.
Who You Are
Previous polyglot hands-on senior software engineer with experience working on highly scalable software solutions across web or backend. Extensive background in software engineering with several years’ experience in a variety of systems and technologies. Experience building and leading teams of highly skilled, senior software engineers that deliver high-quality software.
Excellent understanding of system design, software architecture, cloud, and software engineering standard methodologies. Strong understanding of testing strategies and reliability engineering. Excellent people management, interpersonal, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
Desirable Experience
Knowledge of Software approaches like Domain Driven Design. Previous software engineering community leadership experience. Presentation delivery at internal and external events. An ambition to be an open-source contributor, technology writer.
Advanced experience with cloud engineering. Demonstrable entrepreneurship in previous organisation(s).
What’s in it for You
Being a part of M&S is exactly that – becoming a part and playing your part. We’re an inclusive, dynamic, exciting, and always evolving business built on core values. Here are some of the benefits we offer:
1. 20% Colleague discount on most things from furniture, fashion and food.
2. A first-class welcome to M&S with a tailored induction and a wide range of training schemes to help with your learning and development.
3. Attractive annual bonus, based on company performance and personal objectives.
4. Competitive holiday entitlement with the potential to buy extra holiday days!
5. A very generous Defined Contribution Pension Scheme and Life Assurance.
Everyone’s Welcome
M&S is ready to push boundaries to lead the retail industry into a greener, speedier, more inspiring digital era. We’re transforming how we work together and offering our most exciting opportunities yet. Marks & Spencer strives to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers and suppliers. Join us and make change happen.
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