Engineering Manager – Azure Microservices & AI Platforms

MARKS&SPENCER; Salford; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

20% colleague discount on M&S products

Holiday allowance

Discretionary bonus

Pension and life assurance

Induction and training

M&S Choices perks

Family policies

Wellbeing support

Volunteer day

Job summary

Marks & Spencer is hiring an Engineering Manager to lead high-performing teams, delivering Azure-based microservices and SaaS integrations in a complex enterprise environment.

You will partner with product and architecture leaders to define roadmaps, drive DevOps practices, and ensure reliability, observability and scalable delivery.

This hybrid UK role offers engaging work, long-term career development and a focus on modernising legacy systems while ensuring customer value.

Qualifications

• Senior-level software engineering leadership with hands-on delivery experience.
• Experience designing, building and operating Azure microservices and distributed systems.
• Strong knowledge of APIs, messaging and integration patterns.

Responsibilities

• Build, mentor and lead engineering teams to deliver high-quality software.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership across Azure microservices, APIs and event-driven architecture.
• Lead design/delivery of integrations with Blue Yonder and SaaS platforms, setting engineering standards.

Skills

Azure microservices

API design

Event-driven architecture

Enterprise integration

DevOps practices

Observability

Leadership

Tools

Kubernetes

Databases (MongoDB, SQL Server)

Redis

Dynatrace

CI/CD

Job description

Marks & Spencer is hiring an Engineering Manager to lead high-performing teams, delivering Azure-based microservices and SaaS integrations in a complex enterprise environment.

You will partner with product and architecture leaders to define roadmaps, drive DevOps practices, and ensure reliability, observability and scalable delivery.

This hybrid UK role offers engaging work, long-term career development and a focus on modernising legacy systems while ensuring customer value.