Why join us
Joining Sainsbury's Tech means becoming part of an inclusive and driven team that is passionate about creating innovative solutions. As an Engineering Manager, you will play a pivotal role in leading and coaching talented engineering teams, driving the delivery of impactful solutions that drive efficiency and enhance performance across the business. With a focus on continuous improvement, you will have the opportunity to shape a world-class engineering function and contribute to the development of cutting-edge processes and technologies. At Sainsbury's, we value collaboration, diversity, and inclusivity, and offer a supportive and inspiring environment where you can make a purposeful contribution. Join us to be a part of an organisation that fosters technical excellence and embraces the power of diversity to shape the technology landscape of a leading UK retailer.
What you'll do
You will play a vital role in leading and enabling the delivery of solutions that create value, drive efficiency, and increase performance for the business. You will line manage and guide a multi-skilled engineering team, ensuring they have the necessary resources and skills to deliver end-to-end technical solutions for products. Your responsibilities include:
1. Mentoring and coaching your team members.
2. Recruiting diverse and talented individuals.
3. Promoting a culture of collaboration, learning, and respect.
4. Working closely with Product Managers and Engineers to define the vision and technical direction of the products.
5. Managing multiple deliveries and taking end-to-end ownership of your products, including change management and service management.
6. Driving the development of new features and promoting best engineering practices.
7. Advocating for agile/lean delivery methodologies.
8. Managing initiative-level budgets and ensuring adherence to processes and standards.
Additionally, you will demonstrate positive attitudes and behaviours that contribute to a culture of excellence and inclusivity.
Who you are
You are a passionate and experienced leader with a deep understanding of engineering practices and a talent for coaching and developing teams. With a hands-on approach, you lead by example and inspire your colleagues, fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement. Your technical expertise combined with your ability to prioritise and manage multiple deliveries enables you to drive the successful development and delivery of large-scale platforms.
You excel in making well-informed technical decisions and implementing best practices while also managing Capex and Opex responsibilities. With your strong leadership and communication skills, you build strong relationships at all levels and contribute to the inclusive and diverse culture that Sainsbury's Tech values.
We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. Think about the scale it takes for us to feed the nation. The level of data, transactions, and variety it involves. Then you’ll realise that ours is a modern software engineering environment because it has to be. We’ve made serious investments into a Tech Academy and into setting standards and principles. We iterate, learn, experiment, and push ways of working such as Agile, Scrum, and XP. So you can look forward to awesome opportunities in everything from AI to reusable tech.
We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer, so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new - whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working.
Benefits
When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them:
* Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to get 10% off at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU, and Habitat after 4 weeks. This increases to 15% off at Sainsbury’s every Friday and Saturday and 15% off at Argos every pay day.
* We've got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover.
* You may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 20% of salary, depending on our performance.
* You'll receive an annual holiday allowance and the option to buy additional holiday.
* Other benefits include season ticket loans, interest-free car loans of up to £10k, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, and pay advance options.
* Access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers.
* Employee Assistance Programme and eligibility for private healthcare.
* Up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave.
Please see for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).
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