Technology Manager – 2 year FTC

Sainsbury's Limited; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare

Pension scheme

Employee discount

Cycle to work

Season ticket loan

Life cover

Bonus potential

Job summary

Sainsbury's Limited in London is seeking a Technology Manager for Finance to lead the strategy, delivery, operation and continuous improvement of Finance Technology services. The role covers the full SDLC and requires collaboration across engineering, architecture, product and business teams to deliver secure, scalable technology solutions.

You will lead cross‑functional delivery teams across Agile and Waterfall methodologies, ensure adherence to engineering standards, and manage supplier

Qualifications

• Strong SDLC understanding and ability to manage requirements, design, development, testing, release and production support.
• Broad delivery experience across enterprise apps, cloud platforms, SaaS and operational services.
• Knowledge of modern software delivery practices: Agile, DevOps, CI/CD, automated testing, release governance.

Responsibilities

• Own technology delivery across the full SDLC from demand intake to deployment and ongoing support.
• Provide leadership and governance across agile and waterfall delivery teams, ensuring secure, reliable solutions aligned with engineering standards.
• Collaborate with architects, engineers, product teams and suppliers to shape designs, manage dependencies and drive delivery outcomes.
• Ensure robust software engineering practices, including release management, environment management, testing strategies and operational readiness.
• Lead technology change across complex enterprise landscapes, balancing priorities, constraints and risk.
• Oversee application lifecycle management, technical debt reduction and platform modernisation initiatives.
• Drive technology delivery for transformation, regulatory and compliance initiatives.
• Ensure services are secure, resilient and robust through risk, cyber, disaster recovery and continuity planning.
• Lead service management activities including incident, problem and change management to improve reliability.
• Manage technology risks, controls, audits and remediation activities.
• Provide governance and assurance across projects and service changes.
• Build strong relationships with suppliers and delivery partners for performance and value.

Job description

We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. Think about the scale it takes to feed the nation. The level of data, transactions and variety involved. Then you’ll realise this is a modern software engineering environment, because it has to be. We’ve made significant investment in the standards and principles that shape how we work. We iterate, learn, experiment and champion ways of working such as Agile, Scrum and XP. So you can look forward to exciting opportunities across everything from AI to reusable tech.

Technology Manager – Finance

This role is a 2 year fixed term contract position

About The Role

We are looking for a Technology Manager with broad enterprise technology delivery experience to lead the strategy, delivery, operation and continuous improvement of Finance Technology services. The successful candidate will have experience managing technology throughout the full Software Development Lifecycle, working across engineering, architecture, product and business teams to deliver secure, resilient and scalable technology solutions.

What You’ll Do

• Own technology delivery across the full Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), from demand intake, requirements definition and solution design through development, testing, deployment and ongoing support.
• Provide leadership and governance across agile and waterfall delivery teams, ensuring solutions are delivered securely, reliably and in line with engineering standards.
• Work closely with architects, engineers, product teams and suppliers to shape solution designs, manage technical dependencies and oversee delivery outcomes.
• Ensure appropriate software engineering practices are followed, including release management, environment management, testing strategies, and operational readiness.
• Lead the delivery of technology change across complex enterprise landscapes, balancing business priorities, technical constraints and operational risk.
• Oversee application lifecycle management, technical debt reduction and platform modernisation initiatives.
• Drive technology delivery for transformation, regulatory, and compliance initiatives.
• Ensure services are secure, resilient, and operationally robust through effective risk, cyber, disaster recovery, and continuity planning.
• Lead service management activities, including incident, problem, and change management, to improve service reliability and performance.
• Manage technology risks, controls, audits, and remediation activities.
• Provide technical governance and assurance across projects and service changes.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with strategic suppliers and delivery partners, ensuring performance and value for money.
• Manage budgets across both change and run activities.
• Lead, coach, and develop internal teams and third-party partners to deliver high-quality outcomes.
• Champion automation, innovation, and continuous improvement across the Finance Technology estate.

Essential Experience

• Strong understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), including requirements management, solution design, development, testing, release management and production support.
• Broad technology delivery experience across enterprise applications, integrations, cloud platforms, SaaS products and operational services.
• Understanding of modern software delivery practices, including Agile, DevOps, CI/CD, automated testing and release governance.
• Experience overseeing technology delivery from implementation, service transition and ongoing operational support.
• Ability to challenge technical designs, assess delivery risks and make informed technology decisions whilst not necessarily being a hands‑on engineer.
• Experience managing enterprise technology services, including service ownership, operational performance, vendor management and technology governance.
• Experience managing third-party suppliers and outsourced service providers.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to engage at all levels.
• Experience delivering transformation programmes while maintaining operational stability.
• Knowledge of ITIL, service management, risk management, and technology governance.
• Understanding of cyber security, resilience, disaster recovery, and compliance requirements.
• Commercially astute, with experience managing budgets, contracts, and supplier performance.
• A collaborative leader who can motivate teams, drive accountability, and deliver results.

Benefits

We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new — whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them: Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to save 10% on your shopping online and instore at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat, and we regularly increase the discount to 15% at points during the year. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance‑related bonus of up to 20% of salary, depending on how we perform.
Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance, and you can buy up to an additional week's holiday, and we provide private healthcare. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, interest free car loan of up to £10k, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, salary advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an Employee Assistance Programme.
Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’s pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’s pay for paternity leave.
Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).
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