Principal Engineer (Waitrose Supply Chain)
Location: Bracknell
Posted on: Posted Yesterday
Job Requisition ID: R-162772
Posting End Date: November 24, 2024
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Job Summary:
The Partnership is the UK’s most successful omni-channel retailer which includes two of the UKs most loved department store and grocery brands with annual sales revenues in excess of £12B. Our Engineering practice includes 60+ teams, working on everything from Cloud Platforms to Mobile Apps, from E-Commerce functionality to Machine Learning.
What you’ll be doing?
Waitrose Supply Chain is responsible for ensuring the right stock is in the right place at the right time. In the fast moving environment of retail grocery, supply chain processes are time critical to ensure sales aren’t lost to low availability or wastage.
As a Principal Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in aligning the engineering strategy and roadmap for the Waitrose Supply Chain with the overarching business objectives. Your influence will extend to key decisions that shape the operation of supply chain systems and guide how engineering drives change across this complex business area.
A key objective of the role is to improve the resilience and maintainability of supply chain systems. To do this you will collaborate closely with key stakeholders such as Product Leads, Delivery and Operations Managers, Infrastructure Leads and Enterprise Architects as well as specialist engineering teams.
What you’ll already have:
1. Experience of leading and influencing engineering decisions in a complex environment.
2. Experience of building and running highly performant, large scale, mission critical applications.
3. A background in software engineering.
4. A good understanding of software architecture including different architectural styles and integration patterns.
5. An understanding of Agile development methods such as Scrum or Kanban and techniques used to optimise for flow.
6. Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery in complex environments.
What else you could bring:
1. Experience of running/building software in a complex supply chain environment such as retail or FMCG.
2. Cloud Platforms such as AWS, GCP or Azure.
3. Application security.
4. There are opportunities to become a people manager if that is something that appeals to you.
Where will you be working?
We have opportunities at our Waitrose Head Office in Bracknell. We have a blended hybrid approach of working from our offices and a home/remote UK location.
What benefits do we offer you?
We believe in rewarding our Partners for their time and energy. Find out about the benefits of working for the Partnership.
Pay: £68,500.00 - £128,000.00 Annual
Scheduled Weekly hours: 35
Worker Type: Permanent Partner
Job Level: Partnership Level 5
Hours of Work: 35
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