Software Engineering Manager - Online (Order Management)

M&S; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading retailer in Greater London seeks a Software Engineering Manager to lead a high-performing team, focusing on modernizing order management software. Responsibilities include managing Agile delivery, providing technical leadership, and establishing quality standards. Ideal candidates will have a strong background in software engineering, an understanding of scalable solutions, and experience in team leadership. The role offers competitive benefits including a discount on products, a discretionary bonus, and comprehensive family policies.

Benefits

20% colleague discount

Competitive holiday allowance

Discretionary bonus schemes

Strong pension and life assurance

Exclusive perks through M&S Choices

Market-leading family policies

24/7 wellbeing support

Paid volunteer day

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience in software engineering, particularly with scalable back-end solutions.
• Experience building and leading teams of senior software engineers.
• Excellent understanding of system design and cloud technologies.

Responsibilities

• Lead the software engineering team to deliver high-quality software.
• Ensure successful planning and execution of software projects.
• Establish quality standards for software products.

Skills

Leadership and team management

Agile project delivery

Technical architecture knowledge

Experience with order management systems

DevOps principles

Tools

React

Java

MongoDB

Azure

Job description

Job Description

You will join the Online software engineering team and lead the modernisation of our order management software, to provide a seamless customer experience and enable the M&S online growth ambitions through a scalable, reliable, secure and cost-effective system.

What You'll Do

The Software Engineering Manager role is the embodiment of 'solving problems through technology' with key responsibilities as follows:

• Team Management: Build, mentor, and manage a high-performing software engineering team. Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement within the team. Facilitate communication and collaboration among team members. Ensure budgets, people and resource allocation, and workload, balance across projects.
• Agile Delivery: Oversee the planning, execution, and delivery of software projects, ensuring alignment with business objectives and timelines. Monitor project progress, risks, and dependencies, taking corrective action when necessary. Work closely with product management, design, programme management, and others to define project scope, goals, and deliverables.
• Technical Leadership: Drive the adoption of standards, and methodologies for software development. Provide technical guidance and support to engineering teams for complex projects. Evaluate and recommend new technologies, tools, and platforms to improve the engineering process and software quality. Work with senior engineers to develop the team's technical roadmap and support the product management team to prioritise it against the commercial roadmap.
• Quality Assurance and Maintenance: Establish and enforce quality standards, ensuring software products meet performance, reliability, and usability requirements. Oversee the maintenance and support of existing software systems, ensuring prompt resolution of issues and bugs.

Who You Are

• Previous polyglot hands-on senior software engineer
• Experience working on highly scalable back-end software solutions, ideally Java-based
• Experience working with order management systems such as IBM Sterling is a plus
• Extensive background in software engineering with several years' experience in a variety of systems and technologies
• Experience building and leading teams of highly skilled, senior software engineers that deliver high-quality software.
• Excellent understanding of system design, software architecture, cloud, and software engineering standard methodologies,
• Promoter of DevOps: you build it, you run it.

Tech Stack

• React, Next.js, Typescript, Optmizely
• Java, Spring, Spring Boot, Micronaut, GraphQL, Kafka
• MongoDB, Postgres, Redis
• Azure, Kubernetes
• Dynatrace
• GitHub Actions

What's In It For You

Working at M&S means being part of something bigger - helping to deliver quality, value and service to millions of customers every day. We're inclusive, fast-moving and always evolving, with a strong sense of purpose and a focus on doing the right thing.

Here are just a few of the benefits that make working here even more rewarding:

• 20% colleague discount on all M&S products and many third-party brands for you and someone in your household, available once you've completed your probation
• Competitive holiday allowance with the option to buy more
• Discretionary bonus schemes linked to your performance and ours
• Strong pension and life assurance to help plan for the future
• Tailored induction and training to support your development from day one
• Exclusive perks and savings through our M&S Choices portal
• Market-leading family policies, including parental, adoption and neonatal leave
• 24/7 wellbeing support, including virtual GP access and mental health services
• One paid volunteer day a year to support a cause that matters to you

Everyone's Welcome

We are ambitious about the future of retail. We're disrupting, innovating and leading the industry into a more conscientious, inspiring digital era. We're transforming how we work together and offering our most exciting opportunities yet. Marks & Spencer strives to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers and suppliers. Join us and make change happen.

We support you

We are committed to building diverse and representative teams, where everyone can bring their whole selves to work and be at their best. We support each other and work together to win together.

If you feel you'd benefit from any support or reasonable adjustments during any stage of the recruitment process, please don't hesitate to let us know when completing your application. This information will be picked up by our team, so we can try and put steps in place to help you be at your best through this process.