Primark Technology is about to embark on a transformation journey to support business strategy which includes modernising our operating model as well as technology architecture.

Successful candidate will act as the subject matter expert for the development and maintenance of the systems and solutions aligned to the Digital Product Domain. As part of the Engineering Practice, we aim to enable more frequent and faster deployments, improve software quality and reduce change failure rate and improve the mean time to recover in the event of an issue occurring.

Duties & Responsibilities

Act as a hands-on technical leader for all engineering, development and operational responsibilities within a product area/domain

As Engineering Manager, build strong senior relationships with our partners ensuring seamless engineering capability for the specified Product Domain

Line-manage, coach, mentor and develop team members

Drive SI & application vendors to meet and exceed expectations

Define and govern software quality standards, service transition rigour and compliance to security; ultimately improve software delivery and operational performance measured through metrics such as MTTR, Change Failure Rate %, Deployment lead time, technical debt

Set the technical direction and demonstrate active responsibility for an entire portfolio’s objectives

Ensure the engineering and platform development roadmaps and backlogs reflect the strategy

Collaborate closely with the Product Domain to create strategic objectives and organisational evolutions to better align business, product and technical opportunities

Approach and contribute to product planning and roadmap with an agile approach

Orchestrate a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement across the organisation to ensure scalability and long-term efficiency.

Pro-actively seek relevant external insight, trends and innovations to ensure Primark remains best in class.

Ensure software engineering costs for the portfolio are known, supervised and optimised.

Demonstrate and champion pragmatism in terms of commercial delivery and software quality.

Promote technology, values and ways of working within the team and wider software engineering community.

Participate in 'on call' rota and fulfil requirements and demands as appropriate

Skills & Experience:

Working knowledge of SAAS and modern cloud-based technologies covering one or more platforms: Commerce Tools, Bloomreach, Amplience, Oracle RMS v15, Relational Databases, Azure including microservices and serverless architectures, Akamai, Fluent Commerce, CI/CD through Jenkins, Terraform

Digital transformation at scale, multi country roll-outs including US and European markets

Teams over 150 FTE, supplier management

Working understanding of Agile SDLC and experience with distributed software engineering setups

An appropriate degree, equivalent qualification or experience

Successful candidates will:

Be a passionate and visionary technologist able to inspire others to challenge and disrupt the current reality to co-create a compelling technology-orientated future business by

being able to scan potential technologies (established, emerging and emergent)

finding ways to translate that into business opportunities

and most importantly of all, able to take people along with you, empowering new ways of working and successfully executing on those opportunities

Solid background in software engineering with many years’ experience in a variety of systems and technologies.

Experience building and leading teams of highly skilled software engineers that deliver high-quality software.

Strong understanding of system design, software architecture, cloud, and software engineering standard methodologies

Advocate for Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery.

Specialist in Agile, lean and DevOps with keen interest in open-source technologies

Good understanding of testing strategies and reliability engineering

Highly organised and able to handle multiple work streams, manage partners and expectations.

Excellent people management, interpersonal, analytical, and problem-solving skills

Confident driving system design conversations, ensuring software systems built correctly

Experience in enterprise grade software deployments and operations

Why work with us?

At Primark, we know how hard everyone works to achieve our business goals. Having a competitive salary and annual bonus scheme is our way of acknowledging this. We'll also provide you with a progressive career path, because clear advancement is what we’re all about at Primark

Our flexible working benefit, Your Day Your Way, means you get to choose when to start and finish your workday. Choose to work remotely if you like, in a way that suits you but also helps us get the most out of your talents.

There’s a lively culture here, and it’s easy to get to know each other in a truly warm atmosphere.