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What Youll DoThe information below covers the role requirements, expected candidate experience, and accompanying qualifications.Your key accountabilities will include:Team Management: Build, mentor, and manage a high-performing software engineering team. Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement within the team. Facilitate communication and collaboration among team members. Ensure budgets, people and resource allocation, and workload, balance across projects.Agile Delivery: Oversee the planning, execution, and delivery of software projects, ensuring alignment with business objectives and timelines. Monitor project progress, risks, and dependencies, taking corrective action when necessary. Work closely with product management, design, programme management, and others to define project scope, goals, and deliverables.Technical Leadership: Drive the adoption of standards, and methodologies for software development. Provide technical guidance and support to engineering teams for complex projects. Evaluate and recommend new technologies, tools, and platforms to improve the engineering process and software quality. Work with senior engineers to develop the team's technical roadmap and support the product management team to prioritise it against the commercial roadmap.Quality Assurance and Maintenance: Establish and enforce quality standards, ensuring software products meet performance, reliability, and usability requirements. Oversee the maintenance and support of existing software systems, ensuring prompt resolution of issues and bugs.Who You AreYour skills and experience will include:Previous polyglot handson senior software engineerExperience working on highly scalable software solutions across web or backendExtensive background in software engineering with several years' experience in a variety of systems and technologiesExperience building and leading teams of highly skilled, senior software engineers that deliver high-quality software.Excellent understanding of system design, software architecture, cloud, and software engineering standard methodologies,Promoter of DevOps: you build it, you run it.Tech StackM&S uses a variety of technologies including;Java, Spring, SpringBOOT, MicronautReact, Next.js, Typescript, AngularAzure Cloud, Kubernetes, Dynatrace (observability)SQL Server, MongoDBIgnite, RedisWhats In It For YouWorking 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.20% colleague discount on all M&S products and many thirdparty brands for you and someone in your household, available once you've completed your probationCompetitive holiday allowance with the option to buy moreDiscretionary bonus schemes linked to your performance and oursStrong pension and life assurance to help plan for the futureTailored induction and training to support your development from day oneExclusive perks and savings through our M&S Choices portalMarketleading family policies, including parental, adoption and neonatal leave24/7 wellbeing support, including virtual GP access and mental health servicesOne paid volunteer day a year to support a cause that matters to youEveryone's WelcomeWe 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. xjdpvnf 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.