JD Sports Fashion
Bury, Lancashire
JD Sports- Head Office, Warwick House, Bury, Bury, United Kingdom Job Description Established in 1981 with a single store in the Northwest of England, the JD Group is a leading omni-channel retailer of Sports Fashion, Outdoors and Gyms with our colleagues working in stores across several retail fascias in many markets around the world. JD Sports Fashion Plc was listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1996 and has been a FTSE100 publicly quoted company since 2019 and continues to grow in the UK and internationally. We want to be the leading global omnichannel retailer in the sports and outdoor industry. To be a part of this successful company and help us to achieve this you will have the desire to ingrain our strategic goals of being a people led, innovative and customer focused organisation which provides operational excellence whilst identifying new areas of growth as part of our day to day objectives. JD has been embarking on a digital re platform initiative for MACH and EDA, with new SaaS providers being onboarded in a buy vs. build mindset. As a result, we are re architecting our platforms to enable our teams to focus on integrating these systems and power bespoke differentiating technology solutions that deliver secure, scalable, and cost optimised functionality and change at pace. As a technology expert for the given domain, and for current and emerging technologies, you will be one of the key team members responsible for the feasibility and technical execution of solutions for a specific product domain, providing eCommerce or Order Management capabilities within our technology stack. This will include technical ownership of the domain and its workloads, the security and quality of the implementations and all relevant integrations with SaaS platforms. Job Title - Principal Software Engineer Working hours - 40 What You'll Be Doing: As a Principal Software Engineer, you'll be doing the following: To work with PSE counterparts to oversee the design and execution of aligned technology solutions in line with the organisation's technology and engineering strategy To work with PSE counterparts and the Platform Services/DevOps team to ensure security, governance and quality guardrails are in place and adhered to To ensure tooling provided by the Platform Services team leverages all required engineering productivity, development and deployment tooling operating under a CI/CD methodology To work with PSE counterparts to devise policies and strategies pertaining to industry engineering standards and practices To manage the productivity and quality of internal and external engineering execution capability and capacity utilising metrics and data insights from our internal developer platform and work planning tools What We're Looking For: Good knowledge of AWS/cloud computing providers and technologies specific to the domain including API development, Serverless, NoSQL, containers Strong experience in GraphQL, Typescript and (IAC) Terraform Working experience with different architectural styles (MVC, event driven, pipes, and filters). The Company: The JD Group is a leading omnichannel retailer of Sports Fashion, Street & Premium Fashion, Outdoors and Gyms with over 60,000 colleagues over 3,400 stores across several retail fascia's in over 30 markets around the world. We are an equal opportunities employer who embraces and values differences. We recognise the importance of an inclusive workplace culture in which everyone can thrive irrespective of their background or identity. Benefits: Staff Discount on qualifying purchases across Group retail stores and online Discounted Gym membership Personal development opportunities to learn and develop at work Access to Apprenticeships and accredited qualifications Interested? If you are interested in this position, then press the Apply Now button. Due to the high volumes of applications our opportunities attract, it takes time to review them all. If you don't hear back within two weeks of your application, please consider your application to have been unsuccessful on this occasion. Applications that meet the skills criteria will be contacted for a 1st stage meeting with the talent team. Shortlisted candidates will then be invited to interview with the hiring manager.
JD Sports- Head Office, Warwick House, Bury, Bury, United Kingdom Job Description Established in 1981 with a single store in the Northwest of England, the JD Group is a leading omni-channel retailer of Sports Fashion, Outdoors and Gyms with our colleagues working in stores across several retail fascias in many markets around the world. JD Sports Fashion Plc was listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1996 and has been a FTSE100 publicly quoted company since 2019 and continues to grow in the UK and internationally. We want to be the leading global omnichannel retailer in the sports and outdoor industry. To be a part of this successful company and help us to achieve this you will have the desire to ingrain our strategic goals of being a people led, innovative and customer focused organisation which provides operational excellence whilst identifying new areas of growth as part of our day to day objectives. JD has been embarking on a digital re platform initiative for MACH and EDA, with new SaaS providers being onboarded in a buy vs. build mindset. As a result, we are re architecting our platforms to enable our teams to focus on integrating these systems and power bespoke differentiating technology solutions that deliver secure, scalable, and cost optimised functionality and change at pace. As a technology expert for the given domain, and for current and emerging technologies, you will be one of the key team members responsible for the feasibility and technical execution of solutions for a specific product domain, providing eCommerce or Order Management capabilities within our technology stack. This will include technical ownership of the domain and its workloads, the security and quality of the implementations and all relevant integrations with SaaS platforms. Job Title - Principal Software Engineer Working hours - 40 What You'll Be Doing: As a Principal Software Engineer, you'll be doing the following: To work with PSE counterparts to oversee the design and execution of aligned technology solutions in line with the organisation's technology and engineering strategy To work with PSE counterparts and the Platform Services/DevOps team to ensure security, governance and quality guardrails are in place and adhered to To ensure tooling provided by the Platform Services team leverages all required engineering productivity, development and deployment tooling operating under a CI/CD methodology To work with PSE counterparts to devise policies and strategies pertaining to industry engineering standards and practices To manage the productivity and quality of internal and external engineering execution capability and capacity utilising metrics and data insights from our internal developer platform and work planning tools What We're Looking For: Good knowledge of AWS/cloud computing providers and technologies specific to the domain including API development, Serverless, NoSQL, containers Strong experience in GraphQL, Typescript and (IAC) Terraform Working experience with different architectural styles (MVC, event driven, pipes, and filters). The Company: The JD Group is a leading omnichannel retailer of Sports Fashion, Street & Premium Fashion, Outdoors and Gyms with over 60,000 colleagues over 3,400 stores across several retail fascia's in over 30 markets around the world. We are an equal opportunities employer who embraces and values differences. We recognise the importance of an inclusive workplace culture in which everyone can thrive irrespective of their background or identity. Benefits: Staff Discount on qualifying purchases across Group retail stores and online Discounted Gym membership Personal development opportunities to learn and develop at work Access to Apprenticeships and accredited qualifications Interested? If you are interested in this position, then press the Apply Now button. Due to the high volumes of applications our opportunities attract, it takes time to review them all. If you don't hear back within two weeks of your application, please consider your application to have been unsuccessful on this occasion. Applications that meet the skills criteria will be contacted for a 1st stage meeting with the talent team. Shortlisted candidates will then be invited to interview with the hiring manager.