Engineering Lead

Currys; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Currys is seeking an Engineering Lead to own engineering standards, quality and delivery assurance across a multi-partner landscape. This hands-on role sits at the centre of integration governance, covering .NET middleware to frontend connectivity.

You will lead by example, drive CI/CD, set engineering principles, and build internal capability to reduce partner dependency over time. Strong retail/ecommerce and regulated env experience is valued.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of senior engineering experience in multi-team or multi-partner environments.
• Hands-on .NET and Azure; full-stack capability strongly preferred.
• Experience designing, building and governing integration services and APIs.
• Proven track record in producing resilient, production-grade applications.
• Observability/monitoring built in from design, not an afterthought.
• Strong SDLC knowledge: CI/CD, pipeline ownership, env management and release governance (Azure DevOps).
• Ability to work with external delivery partners and hold them to account.
• Experience recruiting and developing engineering talent.
• Retail/ecommerce or high-volume consumer environment experience.
• Familiarity with regulated or financially sensitive integration environments.
• Experience in large transformation programmes with multiple third-party partners.

Responsibilities

• Own and enforce engineering standards across all delivery partners and internal teams.
• Conduct and lead code reviews; provide clear, actionable feedback.
• Define and document engineering principles for Integration Services.
• Provide technical assurance across integration design and implementation.
• Review integration approaches across .NET middleware, Azure services, and connected systems.
• Ensure resilience, self-healing and scalability are in built from day one.
• Own the engineering approach to CI/CD and release governance.
• Lead pipeline standards, branching strategies and environment management.
• Drive maturity across release governance and partner alignment.
• Collaborate with external partners and build in-house capability over time.
• Represent engineering at programme level and translate requirements into actionable work.

Skills

Senior engineering leadership

.NET & Azure

Full stack

Integration services/APIs

Observability/monitoring

CI/CD/Azure DevOps

Partner management

Team building/recruiting

Retail/ecommerce experience

Regulated integrations

Job description

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Engineering Lead
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Fixed Term Contract - 12 Months
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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:

• 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.
• 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.

Join our team and we'll be with you every step of the way, helping you develop the career you want with new opportunities, on-going 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.