Job Description
Responsibilities
- Ensuring the operational stability and resilience of the software solutions owned by your team
- Delivering high-quality software solutions that create measurable value for the business
- Improving team maturity and driving progress towards, or maintaining, Elite DORA standards
- Championing engineering excellence and fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement
- Establishing strong engineering standards and build pipelines to support maintainability and extensibility
- Ensuring cross functional requirements such as security, performance, and reliability are built into delivery
- Driving cloud first thinking and modernisation across the technology landscape
- Making effective use of shared platforms to maximise the value delivered by engineering teams
Requirements
- A strong software engineering background, with experience across modern architectures, cloud platforms, and scalable backend systems
- A track record of building, leading, and developing high performing engineering teams
- Strong technical judgement across system design, software architecture, and modern engineering practices
- A DevOps mindset with a strong belief in "you build it, you run it"
- A strong focus on quality, testing, reliability, and operational excellence
- Excellent leadership, communication, analytical, and problem solving skills
- The ability to lead senior engineers and technical partners towards clear outcomes without over prescribing solutions
- Strong influencing skills and the credibility to work effectively with senior stakeholders across technical and non technical teams
- A servant leadership mindset and a willingness to take ownership of complex challenges
- Knowledge of the Retail domain, particularly in supply chain and logistics, would be advantageous but is not essential