Engineering Lead

Currys plc; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Job summary

Currys plc is seeking a technically experienced Engineering Lead to own engineering quality, standards and delivery across a multi-partner landscape. This hands-on leadership role combines senior stakeholder communication with practical code reviews and governance.

The role spans the full stack from .Net middleware and Azure infrastructure to frontend and downstream connectivity, emphasizing resilience, observability and production-grade design. Hybrid working in Waterloo preferred.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of senior engineering experience, with leadership responsibilities in multi-team environments.
• Hands-on with .Net and Azure; full-stack capability is strongly preferred.
• Proven track record designing, building and governing integration services and APIs.
• Experience delivering production-grade, resilient, scalable systems.
• Engineering leadership across SDLC, CI/CD, and release governance.
• Experience managing external delivery partners and building internal capability.

Responsibilities

• Own and enforce engineering standards across delivery partners and internal teams.
• Lead code reviews and provide actionable feedback.
• Define engineering principles for Integration Services and ensure consistent application.
• Provide technical assurance across integration design and implementation.
• Review and challenge approaches across .Net, Azure, and connected systems.
• Drive CI/CD maturity, pipeline standards and environment management.
• Conduct audits of partner outputs and enforce improvement plans.
• Build and mentor an in-house engineering team to reduce dependency on partners.
• Translate technical needs for programme and senior stakeholders; enable MVP delivery.

Skills

Senior Eng

DotNet

Azure

Full Stack

Integration APIs

Observability

CI/CD

Azure DevOps

Stakeholder Mgmt

Job description

Role Overview

Engineering Lead

Waterloo - Hybrid Working

Full Time

Fixed Term Contract - 12 Months

Grade 5

At Currys we’re united by one passion: to help everyone enjoy amazing technology. As the UK’s best-known retailer of tech, we’re proud of the service our customers receive – and it’s all down to our team of 25,000 caring and committed colleagues. Working as one team, we learn and grow together, celebrating the big and small moments that make every day amazing.

We are looking for a technically experienced Engineering Lead to join our Engineering function and take ownership of engineering quality, standards and delivery assurance across a complex, multi-partner landscape.

This is a hands-on leadership role. The Engineering Lead will be equally comfortable presenting technical risk to senior stakeholders and conducting code reviews with delivery teams. The split is intentional - we need someone who leads by doing, not just directing.

The role sits at the centre of how we build and govern integration at Currys, covering the full stack from .Net middleware and Azure infrastructure through to frontend and downstream system connectivity. You will set the engineering bar, hold partners to it, and begin building the internal engineering capability that will carry this function forward.

This role will suit a senior engineer who has built and governed high-volume, resilient systems - ideally in retail or ecommerce - and who knows from experience what production-grade engineering looks like. Someone who designs for failure, builds in observability from day one, and treats CI/CD as a discipline.

Role Overview

Engineering Standards & Code Quality

• Own and enforce engineering standards across all delivery partners and internal teams - covering code quality, patterns, security, and maintainability.
• Conduct and lead code reviews; provide clear, actionable feedback.
• Define and document engineering principles for Integration Services, ensuring they are understood and applied consistently.

Integration Design & Technical Assurance

• Provide technical assurance across integration design and implementation - ensuring services are robust and well-documented.
• Review and challenge integration approaches across .Net middleware, Azure services, and connected downstream systems.
• Ensure that resilience, self-healing and scalability are designed in from the start.

CI/CD, Pipelines & Release Governance

• Own the engineering approach to CI/CD.
• Define and implement pipeline standards, branching strategy, and environment management across the function.
• Drive maturity across release governance - ensure release processes are repeatable, low-risk and well-understood by all partners.
• Conduct technical audits across delivery partners; produce actionable findings and hold partners to agreed improvement plans.

Partner Governance & Internal Capability Building

• Work closely with external delivery partners to set clear engineering expectations, assure their output, and manage performance against agreed standards.
• In parallel, recruit, nurture and develop a small Engineering team - building an in-house capability that reduces partner dependency over time.
• Challenge where quality or approach falls short; elevate clearly and quickly when issues put delivery at risk.

Stakeholder Engagement & Requirements Translation

• Represent engineering at programme and senior stakeholder level - translating technical complexity into clear, actionable language.
• Collaborate and socialise engineering direction across teams.
• Bridge the gap between business intent and engineering execution; challenge requirements where technical feasibility or risk warrants it.
• Apply pragmatic, MVP thinking to service-based delivery - defining what good enough looks like.

Required Skills & Experience

• 5+ years of Senior Engineering experience, including time operating at Engineering Lead level in a multi-team or multi-partner environment.
• Hands-on expertise in .Net and Azure. Full stack capability is strongly preferred.
• Proven experience designing, building and governing integration services and APIs - this is the core of the role.
• Demonstrable experience building resilient, scalable, production-grade applications.
• Monitoring and alerting built in from the start, not added later - candidates must be able to articulate their approach to observability as part of design, not an afterthought.
• Strong SDLC knowledge: CI/CD implementation and improvement, pipeline ownership, branching strategy, environment management and release governance using Azure DevOps.
• Demonstrable ability to work with and hold external delivery partners to account.
• Experience recruiting and developing engineering talent; able to build a team as well as lead one.

Desirable

• Experience in retail, ecommerce or a high-volume consumer-facing environment.
• Familiarity with regulated or financially sensitive integration environments.
• Prior experience operating in large transformation programmes alongside multiple third-party delivery partners.

Why join us

Join our team and we'll be with you every step of the way, helping you develop the career you want with new opportunities, ongoing training and skills for life.

Not only can you shape your own future, but you can help take charge of ours too. As the biggest recycler and repairer of tech in the UK, we’re in a position to make a real impact on people and the planet.

Every voice has a space at our table and we're committed to making inclusion and diversity part of everything we do, including how we strengthen our workforce. We want to make sure you have a fair opportunity to show us your talents during our application process, so if you need any additional assistance with your application please email [e-mail] and we'll do our best to help.