Engineering Manager (Cloud Platforms)

Kingfisher plc; Kraków; On-site; PLN 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical healthcare

Life insurance

Fit&More sports card

Monthly transport ticket co-financing

Training & Buddy programme

Language courses

Job summary

Kingfisher plc in Kraków is looking for an Engineering Leader to ensure the delivery of cloud platform roadmaps. You will manage multiple engineering squads, leading them towards technical excellence and successful outcomes.

The ideal candidate will have considerable software development experience, strong DevOps knowledge, and exceptional stakeholder management skills. This role offers a stimulating atmosphere, private healthcare, and opportunities for personal development.

Qualifications

• Considerable experience developing software with a quality focus.
• Strong knowledge of DevOps practices and cloud environments.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills across all levels.
• Ability to lead and shape impactful software engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage multiple engineering squads to deliver outcomes.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure timely delivery.
• Provide coaching and feedback focused on development.
• Define and support career development for engineers and squad leads.

Skills

DevOps practices

Stakeholder management

Software quality focus

Cloud environments

Creative problem-solving

Coaching and mentoring

Job description

We’re Kingfisher, a team made up of over 74,000 passionate people who bring Kingfisher and all our other brands to life. We aim to become the leading home improvement company and grow the largest community of home improvers in the world.

We are committed to equality and diversity. All colleagues, future colleagues, and applicants are treated equally regardless of age, gender, marital or civil partnership status, colour, ethnic or national origin, culture, religious belief, philosophical belief, political opinion, disability, gender identity, gender expression or sexual orientation.

About the role

Working in the Cloud Platforms and SRE Chapter, the role will ensure the delivery of the roadmaps for the Cloud Platforms squads. You will work with squads to build and support core cloud platforms used by our engineering teams.

The role collaborates closely with the Principal Engineer, engages stakeholders across engineering teams to formulate and drive the roadmap, and adopts a customer‑first approach to support multiple squads.

This is an engineering leadership role encompassing people, process, and delivery responsibility. You will lead and manage multiple engineering squads to deliver outcomes and opportunities for the business.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for their domain squads, with equal focus on both people and successful outcomes. They build their teams with excellence in mind. Planning and oversight of their squads, working closely with their Engineering Squad Leads, makes up a large element of their daily lives. They support and influence their teams towards technical excellence, through a culture of continuous improvement, learning, and process ownership.
• Collaborates with peers to manage interdependencies. Works with stakeholders across all levels of the business to ensure customer value is delivered on time and to budget, whilst maintaining software and quality standards.
• Provides inspiration, coaching and feedback to their team, with a focus on people's development and performance. Champions engagement within domain, in conjunction with Squad Leads.
• Utilise their first‑hand experience to communicate their vision & shape their Domain’s impact. They combine their passions for software engineering and leading by example to nurture impactful teams.
• Collaborate with the Chapter to define & support career development for their engineers and squad leads. Drive highly effective communication and engagement across banner and group stakeholders, communicating the Engineering vision & strategy and their alignment with banner and group roadmaps.
• Work with the relevant Chapters to define goals and objectives for the engineers and squad leads. Deploy the performance processes for their squads, using the Chapter toolkits.
• Implement and contribute to talent management, coaching and succession planning for the Domain; using chapter tool kit.
• Foster and grow a highly collaborative and inclusive Domain, that enables evolution of high performing, engaged and inclusive Squads.

Qualifications

• Considerable experience developing software with a quality focus, coupled with strong knowledge of DevOps practices, monitoring and cloud environments.
• Demonstrable experience leading and shaping impactful software engineering teams. Experience supporting and working within defined quality governance frameworks and driving to insert testing earlier into the lifecycle.
• Able to facilitate Cloud Engineers working closely together to remove barriers/silos/hand offs.
• Broad understanding of the IT industry, markets, trends, emerging technologies, and their implications for retail organisations.
• Understanding of the banner imperatives and service requirements of retail or similar organisations.
• Experience of shaping, motivating, and driving change within a large, complex, matrix and fast‑moving environment.
• Excellent stakeholder management & influencing skills at all levels of the organisation. Excellent communication, collaboration, and leadership skills.
• Effective and creative problem‑solving and decision‑making.
• Experience in assessing RCA with a view to addressing systemic issues.
• Ability and willingness to continuously improve and break the status‑quo approach.
• Ability to navigate complexity and ambiguity to quickly identify simple/effective solutions.
• Talented people leader, coaching, mentoring, facilitation, and teaching, whilst developing a pipeline of future talent.
• Excellent command of English (written and spoken).

Benefits

• Private medical healthcare at LUXMED (including dental care) for you and your family.
• Medicover sports card (Fit&More package).
• Life insurance financed by the employer.
• 30‑minute lunch break included in the 8‑hour working day.
• Work in a highly professional and stimulating atmosphere.
• Training & Buddy programme that will allow you to quickly adapt to your new role.
• Wellbeing programme for employees.
• Co‑financing of monthly tickets for the public transport in Krakow.
• Comfortable working environment in the office and possibility of home office.
• Language courses, accounting courses, access to LinkedIn Learning and co‑financing studies and certification.
• Employee referral programme.