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.