Software Engineering Manager - SAP Decoupling

Your skills and experience will include:

• Proven experience leading and developing high-performing software engineering teams, delivering scalable and high-quality software solutions.
• Strong software engineering background with experience across a range of technologies, architectures and distributed systems.
• Excellent understanding of software architecture, system design, cloud technologies, DevOps principles and engineering best practices.
• Strong people leadership, communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence both technical and non-technical audiences.
• A collaborative, servant-leadership approach with strong analytical and problem-solving skills, coupled with a focus on continuous improvement and ownership.
• Experience leading large-scale technology transformation initiatives, modernisation programmes or platform migrations across complex enterprise environments.
• Strong technical judgement with the ability to challenge architectural decisions, balance business priorities with technical requirements and drive pragmatic outcomes.

The teams use a variety of technologies, including:

• Java, Spring, Spring Boot and Micronaut
• React, Next.js, TypeScript and Angular
• Azure Cloud, Kubernetes and Dynatrace
• SQL Server and MongoDB
• Ignite and Redis

Additional technologies for this programme are expected to include:

• Java and Micronaut
• Potential use of Kotlin for new backend service development

• Knowledge of the Retail domain, particularly around the Clothing Product Development and Planning lifecycle, would be highly advantageous.
• Experience delivering SAP modernisation, decomposition or decoupling programmes.
• Experience designing and delivering microservices architectures, API-first integrations and cloud-native backend services.

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.

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 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.

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