Platform, Engineering & Services Tech Director

Tech Our Way

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. Product Manager Integration & Automation CoE will be accountable for developing our capability to implement a range of integration and automations solutions for across our products and platforms.

Key Responsibilities:

• Accountable for development capability to implement a range of integration solutions for across our platforms
• Provide technical ownership of the integration landscape for systems across the entire tech estate
• Support Architecture with aligning integration plans with the broader architectural blueprint strategies.
• Work alongside Support Teams to provide technical ownership into the resolution of all integration related priority incidents and problems.
• Support Architects to develop target state solution blueprints to meet requirements, both functional and non-functional
• Oversee a detailed roadmap of all upcoming integrations and configuration
• Work with the integration Product Manager, Product Owners and developers to deliver integrations and configurations
• Manage Integrations Platforms and Vendors - maintain an eye on the market, looking for Tech solutions that provide a better more cost-effective integrations solutions
• Oversee the development and maintenance of citizen platforms (e.g Mendix) ensuring value is maximised after platform development
• Work closely with process owners, to identify, analyse and recommend business process changes to ensure optimal automation opportunities.
• Gather requirements and test plans for robotic process automation and design, develop and maintain highly repeatable and reliable automated processes.
• Work closely with multiple dev / product teams to create and maintain test cases covering product / feature requirements and help the teams test their software.
• Work on our release process and pipeline with the other engineers to make continuous improvements using automation.
• Integrate our release pipeline with tools to enable a fully automated release process. Where these tools don’t exist, build them.
• Work closely with stakeholders outside the team to manage releases.
• Communicate the impact of emerging technologies on the business and technology landscape.
• Work directly with Tech and Business stakeholders to support the development of product strategies, roadmaps, business cases and transformation programmesKnowledge & Experience Required:
• Minimum of 10 years’ technical experience working with integrations and automation in a retail environment
• Experience with IT integration and IT architecture and played a major role in moving similar sized retail business forwards
• 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:
  1. Being able to scan potential technologies (established, emerging and emergent)
  2. Finding ways to translate that into business opportunities
  3. Be able to take people along with you, empowering new ways of working and successfully executing on those opportunities
• Managed team with proven experience hiring, coaching and developing technical talent
• Plan and deliver joyful outcomes using agile, lean and Citizen IT methodologies
• Experience or good awareness of Mule, Spring framework, JMS/message queues, REST and SOAP, ideally with CXF, and scripting languages such as Groovy and JavaScript
• Significant experience of working within a hybrid engineering and SaaS environment
• Understanding of modern technologies used with retail environments, especially the use of cloud technologies.
• Experience of line management of autonomous and highly skilled Engineers.
• Demonstrable ability to influence effectively in a matrix organisation.
• Experience of working with senior business stakeholders including providing appropriate challenge.
• Experience of sourcing and managing third party partners.
• A broad technology understanding with deep knowledge in specialist areas

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.