Software Engineering Manager – Commercial Trading

Company: M&S
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Location: London
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Job Description

What You’ll Do

The Software Engineering Manager role is the embodiment of ‘solving problems through technology’ with key responsibilities as follows:

  • Team Management: Build, mentor, and manage a high-performing software engineering team. Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement within the team. Facilitate communication and collaboration among team members. Ensure budgets, people and resource allocation, and workload balance across projects.
  • Agile Delivery: Oversee the planning, execution, and delivery of software projects, ensuring alignment with business objectives and timelines. Monitor project progress, risks, and dependencies, taking corrective action when necessary. Work closely with product management, design, programme management, and others to define project scope, goals, and deliverables.
  • Technical Leadership: Drive the adoption of standards and methodologies for software development. Provide technical guidance and support to engineering teams for complex projects. Evaluate and recommend new technologies, tools, and platforms to improve the engineering process and software quality. Work with senior engineers to develop the team’s technical roadmap and support the product management team to prioritise it against the commercial roadmap.
  • Quality Assurance and Maintenance: Establish and enforce quality standards, ensuring software products meet performance, reliability, and usability requirements. Oversee the maintenance and support of existing software systems, ensuring prompt resolution of issues and bugs.

Who You Are

  • Previous polyglot hands-on senior software engineer.
  • 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.
  • Promoter of DevOps: you build it, you run it.
  • Strong understanding of testing strategies and reliability engineering.
  • Excellent people management, interpersonal, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
  • Ability to lead and line manage senior engineers and technical partners to a desired outcome, without prescribing it.
  • Excellent communication skills, both written and spoken, and able to adjust for different audiences, including non-technical audiences.
  • A servant-leadership mentality that is willing to take ownership of problems.
  • Able to influence people at senior levels and from highly technical to non-technical.

Desirable Experience

  • Knowledge of the Retail domain, particularly around product lifecycle or merchandise and sales planning, is of interest, but not a necessity.

Tech Stack

M&S uses a variety of technologies including:

  • Java, Spring, SpringBOOT, Micronaut.
  • React, Next.js, Typescript, Angular.
  • Azure Cloud, Kubernetes, Dynatrace (observability).
  • SQL Server, MongoDB.
  • Ignite, Redis.

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 that make working for M&S just that little bit more special:

  • 20% Colleague discount on most things from furniture, fashion and food.
  • 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.
  • Attractive annual bonus, based on company performance and personal objectives.
  • Competitive holiday entitlement with the potential to buy extra holiday days!
  • Amazing perks and discounts via our M&S Choices website.
  • Charity Volunteer Day – A paid day away from work to support your chosen charity.
  • A very generous Defined Contribution Pension Scheme and Life Assurance.
  • Access to a fantastic range of wellbeing support, including our 24/7 Virtual GP.

Everyone’s Welcome

M&S is ready to push boundaries to lead the retail industry into a greener, speedier, more inspiring digital era. That’s why we’re revolutionising how we work and offering our most exciting opportunities yet. There’s never been a better time to be part of our team.

We’re an in-person business and have core collaboration days in our Support Centre each week. For most teams, this is 3 working days where we come together to collaborate, innovate, and serve our customers thoughtfully.

We are committed to an active Inclusion, Diversity and Equal Opportunities Policy, which starts with our recruitment and selection process, and we are happy to talk flexible working.

If you consider yourself to require reasonable adjustments to any part of our recruitment process, we invite you to share those requirements with us when completing your application.

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Posted: January 18th, 2025