AI-First Azure Engineering Manager - Microservices Lead

Marks and Spencer plc (UK); Salford; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

20% colleague discount on M&S products

Competitive holiday allowance

Discretionary bonus schemes

Strong pension and life assurance

Induction and training

M&S Choices portal

Family policies

Wellbeing support

One paid volunteer day

Job summary

Marks & Spencer plc in the UK is transforming into an AI-first, engineering-led organisation. As an Engineering Manager, you will lead engineering teams delivering Azure-based microservices, API integrations and cloud-native applications across a complex enterprise landscape.

You will partner with architects, product managers and SaaS vendors to define technical roadmaps, implement modern development practices and ensure strong end-to-end ownership.

Qualifications

• Senior-level hands-on software engineering experience with a track record leading teams.
• Experience building Azure-based microservices and distributed systems.
• Expertise in event-driven architecture, API design, asynchronous messaging and enterprise integration patterns.
• Experience integrating enterprise applications with workforce management platforms or comparable SaaS platforms.
• Ability to modernise legacy technology, simplify complex landscapes and advocate DevOps principles and end-to-end service ownership.

Responsibilities

• Building, mentoring and leading high-performing engineering teams with a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.
• Providing hands-on technical leadership across Azure microservices, APIs, event-driven architecture, integration services and cloud-native applications.
• Leading design and delivery of integrations with Blue Yonder and other SaaS platforms while driving engineering standards.
• Partnering with product, architecture and engineering leaders to define technical roadmaps and deliver business outcomes.
• Driving quality, reliability and operational excellence through observability and strong service ownership.

Skills

People leadership

Azure microservices

API design

Event-driven architecture

DevOps practices

Observability

Kubernetes

Containers

Dynatrace

CI/CD

Tools

Kubernetes

Dynatrace

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

Marks & Spencer plc in the UK is transforming into an AI-first, engineering-led organisation. As an Engineering Manager, you will lead engineering teams delivering Azure-based microservices, API integrations and cloud-native applications across a complex enterprise landscape.

You will partner with architects, product managers and SaaS vendors to define technical roadmaps, implement modern development practices and ensure strong end-to-end ownership.