Identity Platform Engineering Manager

Marks & Spencer Plc; City of Westminster; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

20% colleague discount

Holiday allowance

Discretionary bonus schemes

Pension and life assurance

Induction and training

M&S Choices portal

Family policies

Wellbeing support

Volunteer day

Job summary

Marks & Spencer Plc is seeking a Software Engineering Manager to lead the Identity Platform team. You will own design decisions for scalable authentication journeys for customers and colleagues, and guide cross-functional engineers to deliver robust platforms.

You will mentor senior engineers, drive agile delivery, and shape the technical roadmap in alignment with product goals, while maintaining high quality and reliability across services.

Qualifications

• Proven senior software engineering experience across web/backend systems.
• Experience leading highly skilled engineering teams.
• Strong understanding of system design, cloud, and modern software engineering practices.

Responsibilities

• Software Development & Architecture: design scalable, distributed systems and modernize deployments.

Skills

Senior engineer

Polyglot development

System design

Cloud

DevOps

Leadership

Tools

Java

Spring

Spring Boot

Micronaut

React

Next.js

Typescript

Angular

Azure Cloud

Kubernetes

Dynatrace

SQL Server

MongoDB

Ignite

Redis

Job description

Marks & Spencer Plc is seeking a Software Engineering Manager to lead the Identity Platform team. You will own design decisions for scalable authentication journeys for customers and colleagues, and guide cross-functional engineers to deliver robust platforms.

You will mentor senior engineers, drive agile delivery, and shape the technical roadmap in alignment with product goals, while maintaining high quality and reliability across services.