Engineering Manager: Lead Scalable Backend & SAP Decoupling

MARKS&SPENCER; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee discount

Holiday allowance

Bonus scheme

Pension

Induction & training

M&S Choices portal

Family policies

Wellbeing services

Volunteer day

Job summary

Marks & Spencer is seeking an Software Engineering Manager to lead high-performing teams, set technical direction and deliver scalable software aligned to business goals. You will drive engineering standards, secure and resilient systems, and work on decoupling core capabilities from SAP within a large retail landscape.

You will collaborate with Product, Delivery and Domain Architects to design effective solutions, scale teams, and promote modern software engineering practices across

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading and developing high-performing software engineering teams, delivering scalable and high-quality software solutions.
• Strong background in software architecture, system design and cloud technologies.
• Experience with modern engineering practices, DevOps and secure software delivery.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a high-performing software engineering team, fostering collaboration, accountability and continuous improvement.
• Oversee delivery of software initiatives aligned to business goals, timelines and quality expectations.
• Drive engineering excellence by establishing technical standards and modern practices.
• Ensure secure, reliable and maintainable software delivery with high performance.
• Manage vendor, partner and stakeholder relationships for high-quality outcomes.
• Act as Engineering contact for SAP decoupling initiatives and collaborate with Product and Delivery teams.
• Design and evolve microservices architectures and cloud-native backend services.
• Scale and lead teams building new services and modernising capabilities.

Skills

Team leadership

Technical direction

Cloud architecture

DevOps practices

Stakeholder management

Software architecture

Tools

Java

Spring

Kubernetes

Azure

SQL Server

MongoDB

Job description

Marks & Spencer is seeking an Software Engineering Manager to lead high-performing teams, set technical direction and deliver scalable software aligned to business goals. You will drive engineering standards, secure and resilient systems, and work on decoupling core capabilities from SAP within a large retail landscape.

You will collaborate with Product, Delivery and Domain Architects to design effective solutions, scale teams, and promote modern software engineering practices across