Engineering Manager – Smartshop

Job title:

Engineering Manager – Smartshop

Company

Sainsbury’s

Job description

Job Description:As Engineering Manager, you’ll use your engineering expertise to lead an android app engineering team, enabling the delivery of Sainsbury’s SmartShop to create value, drive efficiency and increase performance for our business. Working with other Engineering, Service and Delivery Managers in our ‘Connected Store’ team, you’ll have end-to-end ownership of key SmartShop products/features, across Change and Run activities, including Service Management.The role allows you to remain hand-on developing/designing software solutions, whilst also allowing you to drive progress and work collaboratively with product owners and the business to influence outcomes. You’ll be responsible for recruiting, retaining and motivating your team to deliver end-to-end technical solutions for products.With a constant focus on making things better for our customers, you’ll balance the day-to-day delivery of technical development and service, while also proactively planning ahead to maximise opportunities and mitigate risks. You’ll also be a key contributor to the continued progress of engineering practice, including frameworks and tools to support continuous improvement across the business.More about the role

• You’ll recruit diverse teams who are both exceptionally talented and fit the culture of the business
• Mentoring and coaching colleagues within your team using your expertise as an engineer
• Hands on software development in a Pair Programming/XP environment for Android/IOS mobile applications, handsets and devices
• Help shape a world class engineering function by bringing your experience of cutting-edge processes and technologies into the business
• Ensure your team possesses and develops the right skills by deeply understanding the requirements of the product you are building.
• Work with Product Managers and Engineers to define the vision and technical direction
• Encourage and facilitate communities of practice to ensure we share best practice across the engineering teams
• Work with the Agile and Team Coaches to advocate and embed Agile/lean delivery methodologies
• Responsible for managing and delivering against initiative level budgets, working closely with Product to do this
• Responsible for the service support and SLA’s, DORA metrics and change, problem and incident management processes within our engineering capabilities
• Manage the people and product financial data for your team, meeting targets, providing timely and accurate reporting, and creating opportunities for value realisation in line with our internal processes

More about you

• You’ll be an Engineering Manager with a passion for leading and coaching teams of engineers, building a culture to bring out the best in your teams by inspiring them and developing strong relationships
• Someone who likes to roll up their sleeves and has hands on experience of the languages, tools, and infrastructure and wants to continue to develop software as well as lead a team
• You’ll be self-driven and constantly striving to improve your teams, focusing on continuous development
• You’ll have substantial experience leading engineering professionals in a DevOps environment or high-tech company
• Record of developing and delivering large scale, distributed or complex scale platforms
• Advanced working knowledge of a coding language/framework such as Go, Kotlin, Swift and open to learning new languages
• Ability to prioritise and focus to manage multiple deliveries in different areas
• Attention to detail, able to foresee potential pitfalls before they arise
• Ability to manage Capex and Opex lines in the P&L

Responsibilities: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 for us to feed the nation. The level of data, transactions and variety it involves. Then you’ll realise that ours is a modern software engineering environment because it has to be. We’ve made serious investment into a Tech Academy and into setting standards and principles. We iterate, learn, experiment and push ways of working such as Agile, Scrum and XP. So you can look forward to awesome opportunities in everything from AI to reusable tech.Qualifications: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 get 10% off at Sainsbury’s, Argos, TU and Habitat after 4 weeks. This increases to 15% off at Sainsbury’s every Friday and Saturday and 15% off at Argos every pay day. 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 additional holiday. 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, pay 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, you will also be eligible for private healthcare too.Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave.Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).

Expected salary

Location

London

Job date

Sat, 14 Dec 2024 02:33:59 GMT

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