# Software Engineering Manager - SAP Decoupling **Company**: Marks & Spencer **Location**: London, GB **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Retail **Apply**: https://fa-eqid-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/job/121331?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_00bdba39-247 ## Description 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. This is an exciting time as we continue our transformation into a digital-first, engineering-led organisation, with technology playing a key role in delivering value across the business. As a **Software Engineering Manager**, you'll combine people leadership, technical direction and delivery excellence to build high-performing teams, drive engineering standards and deliver scalable software solutions that support business outcomes. A key focus of this role will be supporting the Fashion, Home & Beauty programme to decouple core business capabilities from SAP. **Your key accountabilities will include:** - Lead and develop a high-performing software engineering team, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, accountability and continuous improvement. - Oversee the delivery of software initiatives, ensuring solutions are aligned to business goals, customer needs, timelines and quality expectations. - Drive engineering excellence by establishing strong technical standards, challenging solution design decisions and promoting modern software engineering practices. - Ensure software solutions are secure, reliable, resilient and operationally effective, with quality, performance and maintainability built into delivery. - Manage relationships with vendors, partners and stakeholders, holding them accountable for high-quality delivery and successful business outcomes. - Act as the primary Engineering contact for the wider **SAP Decoupling Programme**, partnering closely with Product, Delivery and Business stakeholders to ensure successful outcomes. - Work with Domain Architects and Solution Architects to design and deliver appropriate technical solutions that support business processes transitioning away from SAP. - Form, scale and lead engineering teams responsible for building new services and modernising existing capabilities, leveraging both existing and new engineering resources. - Ensure strong engineering maturity, adherence to M&S technology standards and the effective adoption of AI tooling across the software development lifecycle where appropriate. **Your skills and experience will include:** - Proven experience leading and developing high-performing software engineering teams, delivering scalable and high-quality software solutions. - Strong software engineering background with experience across a range of technologies, architectures and distributed systems. - Excellent understanding of software architecture, system design, cloud technologies, DevOps principles and engineering best practices. - Strong people leadership, communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence both technical and non-technical audiences. - A collaborative, servant-leadership approach with strong analytical and problem-solving skills, coupled with a focus on continuous improvement and ownership. - Experience leading large-scale technology transformation initiatives, modernisation programmes or platform migrations across complex enterprise environments. - Strong technical judgement with the ability to challenge architectural decisions, balance business priorities with technical requirements and drive pragmatic outcomes. **Tech Stack** The teams use a variety of technologies, including: - Java, Spring, Spring Boot and Micronaut - React, Next.js, TypeScript and Angular - Azure Cloud, Kubernetes and Dynatrace - SQL Server and MongoDB - Ignite and Redis **Additional technologies for this programme are expected to include:** - Java and Micronaut - Potential use of Kotlin for new backend service development **What’s in it for you?** Working at M&S means being part of something bigger – helping to deliver quality, value and service to millions of customers every day. Here are just a few of the benefits that make working here even more rewarding: - 20% colleague discount on all M&S products and many third-party brands for you and someone in your household, available once you’ve completed your probation. - Competitive holiday allowance with the option to buy more. - Discretionary bonus schemes linked to your performance and ours. - Strong pension and life assurance to help plan for the future. - Tailored induction and training to support your development from day one. - Exclusive perks and savings through our M&S Choices portal. - Market-leading family policies, including parental, adoption and neonatal leave. - 24/7 wellbeing support, including virtual GP access and mental health services. - One paid volunteer day a year to support a cause that matters to you. ## Skills ### Required - Java - Spring - Micronaut - React - Next.js - TypeScript - Angular - Azure Cloud - Kubernetes - Dynatrace - SQL Server - MongoDB - Ignite - Redis - Kotlin ### Nice to have - Knowledge of the Retail domain - Experience delivering SAP modernisation, decomposition or decoupling programmes - Experience designing and delivering microservices architectures, API-first integrations and cloud-native backend services --- Source: [Apply at fa-eqid-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com](https://fa-eqid-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/job/121331?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)