Engineering Enablement lead

Primark Stores Limited; England; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading retail company seeks an experienced Engineering Enablement Lead to optimize technology changes and enhance software delivery. Responsibilities include leading software engineering practices, managing stakeholder relationships, and promoting agile methodologies. The ideal candidate has over 10 years in software engineering, with strong experience in cloud platforms and CI/CD tooling. Competitive salary, remote work flexibility, and excellent benefits offered.

Benefits

27 days of leave plus bank holidays

Flexible working hours

Subsidised cafeteria

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software engineering or DevOps, including 5+ years in leadership.
• Proven experience with cloud platforms and automation tools.
• Strong stakeholder-focused communication and negotiation skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of software engineering principles.
• Promote technology values within the organization.
• Drive automation in all aspects of the SDLC.

Skills

Software engineering principles

DevOps practices

Cloud platforms (Azure, GCP)

CI/CD tooling (GitLab CI/CD, Azure DevOps)

Agile SDLCs

Tools

Terraform

Atlassian Suite

Job description

Job overview

At Primark we are looking to change the way we deliver technology changes to the systems our customers consume. To drive this change, we are looking for an experienced Engineering Enablement Lead who has a strong background in delivering this type of change in a fast-paced environment. In this role, you will oversee and optimise the way we deliver these technology changes to maximise value at minimum cost. You will be accountable for the enablement and adoption of Software Engineering principles to Primark, working with our Engineering Managers, Portfolio Delivery Leads, and Product Teams. You will lead the Engineering Enablement practice across technology, where we aim to enable more frequent and faster deployments, improve software quality, reduce change failure rate and improve the mean time to recover in the event of an issue occurring. You will play a critical role in the Engineering Enablement team where you will be embedding agile ways of working and instilling best in class software engineering techniques.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for leading the design & delivery of software engineering principles, modern development practices, utilising modern tooling and automation.
• Own the strategy for this area and ensure that key stakeholders are informed.
• Promote technology values and ways of working within the team and wider software engineering community.
• Demonstrate and champion pragmatism in terms of commercial delivery and software quality.
• Provide leadership, guidance, and direction to teams, fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement across technology.
• Pro-actively seek relevant external insight, trends and innovations to ensure Primark remains best in class within your area.
• Orchestrate a culture of collaboration across the organisation to ensure scalability and long-term efficiency.
• Develop a culture of awareness, accountability and compliance with regards to Security, GDPR, IT governance controls and Business continuity/Disaster recovery.
• Drive automation in all aspects of the SDLC.
• Improve software delivery and operational performance measured through industry standard metrics.
• Build strong relationships with both our internal senior stakeholders and key partner stakeholders to ensure a seamless software delivery capability across the Primark Technology and Business Domains.
• Enable the engineering experience so that engineers can focus on delivering high-quality products and services.

Knowledge & Experience Required

• 10+ years in software engineering or DevOps, including 5+ years in a leadership or a management role.
• Strong knowledge of software engineering principles, system design, and modern development practices.
• Proven experience with cloud platforms (e.g., Azure, GCP) and IaC tooling such as Terraform.
• Strong experience with CI/CD tooling integrated with source control (such as GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps) at scale.
• Experience with the Atlassian Suite or similar tooling.
• Working knowledge of scalable Agile SDLCs and distributed systems.
• Experience with event-driven microservice architectures/platforms an advantage.
• Familiarity with high availability, disaster recovery, and business continuity practices.
• Demonstrated success in leading teams through enterprise-grade software delivery and operations.
• Stakeholder-focused with excellent communication and negotiation skills.

Why work with us?

At Primark, we know how hard everyone works to achieve our business goals. Having a competitive salary and annual bonus scheme is our way of acknowledging this. We will also provide you with a progressive career path, because clear advancement is what we are all about at Primark.

Our flexible working benefit, Your Day Your Way, means you get to choose when to start and finish your workday. Choose to work remotely if you like, in a way that suits you but also helps us get the most out of your talents. There is a lively culture here, and it’s easy to get to know each other in a truly warm atmosphere.

Benefits

• 27 days of leave, plus bank holidays and the option to buy 5 additional days.
• Flexible working, early Friday finish, and a subsidised cafeteria.
• Primark Perks – Discounts with some local partner businesses to our offices.