Software Engineering Manager - Partnerships

ENGINEERINGUK; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job description

Software Engineering Manager - Partnerships

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 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 extensive background in software engineering and experience in 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.

Desirable Experience
Knowledge of Software approaches like Domain Driven Design, previous software engineering community leadership experience, presentation delivery at internal and external events.

What's in it for you
Being a part of M&S is exactly that - becoming a part and playing your part. Here are some of the benefits we offer that make working for M&S just that little bit more special:

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.
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. Join us and make an immediate impact.