Software Engineering Manager - SRE

Marks and Spencer; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Marks & Spencer is seeking a Software Engineering Manager to join the M&S Platform team. You will help streamline development for 1000+ engineers and 30+ applications, shaping the SRE function and directing the technical vision for reusable pipelines, tooling, build plugins and frameworks that boost developer experience.

You will contribute code, promote engineering excellence, and ensure teams adopt scalable practices to deliver the best user experience while avoiding common CI problems.

Responsibilities

• Being accountable for engineering excellence within your teams, from behaviours to operations, from technical direction to solution in production and from skills and growth to reputation.
• Cultivating self-management and accountability throughout the team via leadership, clear sense of purpose and thoughtful talent management.
• Lead alignment with the overarching technical strategy and working with the wider Technology organisation to craft it.

Job description

All the detailsWe're changing the way we do things, and putting industry leading innovation at the heart of how we operate; we need a stellar engineering team to make it happen. You'll be joining one of the most iconic brands in the UK on its most exciting cycle yet. We're more integrated and product led in our tech teams than ever before: learning, changing, and adapting constantly, with millions of people benefiting from your work every single day.

All the detailsWe're changing the way we do things, and putting industry leading innovation at the heart of how we operate; we need a stellar engineering team to make it happen. You'll be joining one of the most iconic brands in the UK on its most exciting cycle yet. We're more integrated and product led in our tech teams than ever before: learning, changing, and adapting constantly, with millions of people benefiting from your work every single day. You’ll be joining the M&S Platform team as a Software Engineering Manager. Our mission is to streamline development at M&S for 1000+ engineers and 30+ applications - covering both our customer-facing and colleague-facing applications. You will manage the team building the SRE function. You will support the team and help direct the technical vision for how we will build reusable pipelines, tooling, build plugins and frameworks that our many apps will harness to boost the developer experience, while contributing code every step of the way. We want to make M&S one of the best places for software development, target the latest tooling and enable our engineers to focus on building the best user experience so that they don’t get held up by common engineering and continuous integration problems.

What You’ll Do

• Being accountable for engineering excellence within your teams, from behaviours to operations, from technical direction to solution in production and from skills and growth to reputation.
• Cultivating self-management and accountability throughout the team via leadership, clear sense of purpose and thoughtful talent management.
• Lead alignment with the overarching technical strategy and working with the wider Technology organisation to craft it.