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You'll be joining one of the most iconic brands in the UK on its most exciting cycle yet. We're more integrated and product led in our tech teams than ever before: learning, changing, and adapting constantly, with millions of people benefiting from your work every single day.\nYou’ll be joining the M&S Platform team as a Software Engineering Manager. Our mission is to streamline development at M&S for 200+ engineers and 30+ applications - covering both our customer-facing and colleague-facing applications.\nYou will manage the team building the web platform. You will support the team and help direct the technical vision for how we will build reusable pipelines, tooling, build plugins and frameworks that our many apps will harness to boost the developer experience, while contributing code every step of the way.\nWe want to make M&S one of the best places for software development, target the latest tooling and enable our engineers to focus on building the best user experience so that they don’t get held up by common engineering and continuous integration problems.\nWhat You'll Do\nBeing accountable for engineering excellence within your teams, from behaviours to operations, from technical direction to solution in production and from skills and growth to reputation.\nCultivating self-management and accountability throughout the team via leadership, clear sense of purpose and thoughtful talent management.\nLead alignment with the overarching technical strategy and working with the wider Technology organisation to craft it.\nAct as a platform owner, apply accurate product thinking to what is being built with a view to enable and empower as much as possible the digital product(s) that it supports through data and customer centricity, driving the related partner management.\nCollaborate with the entire engineering leadership, to make us think strategically, to ensure maximum alignment and to maintain a healthy ability to “think big” within their teams.\nLine management of supporting Staff and Senior Engineers, as well as driving recruitment and retention within the team.\nAct as custodian of OKR’s within your hub.\nSupports our engineering communities to drive bar raising and strategic alignment, by creating the space and time within teams for the agenda of these communities to be progressed efficiently.\nWhen vendors are involved, the SEM is positioned as the key technical partner. They own it as a vital part of their platform with the same level of reliability and satisfaction as the in-house capabilities they build and run. \nWho You Are\nPrevious polyglot hands-on senior software engineer\nExcellent knowledge in modern web technologies\nExtensive background in software engineering with several years’ experience in a variety of systems and technologies\nExperience building and leading teams of highly skilled, senior software engineers that deliver high-quality software.\nExcellent understanding of system design, software architecture, cloud, and software engineering standard methodologies,\nPromoter of DevOps: you build it, you run it.\nStrong understanding of testing strategies and reliability engineering\nExcellent people management, interpersonal, analytical, and problem-solving skills\nAbility to lead and line manage senior engineers and technical partners to a desired outcome, without prescribing it.\nExcellent communication skills, both written and spoken and able to adjust for different, including non-technical audiences.\nA servant-leadership mentality that is willing to take ownership of problems.\nAble to influence people at senior levels and from the highly technical to non-technical\nOur Tech Stack\nNext.js/React\nCSS Modules\nPlaywright & Jest\nGraphQL\nGitHub + GitHub Actions\nNX\nAzure\nWhat’s In It For You\nWorking 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.\nHere are just a few of the benefits that make working here even more rewarding:\n20% 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\nCompetitive holiday allowance with the option to buy more\nDiscretionary bonus schemes linked to your performance and ours\nStrong pension and life assurance to help plan for the future\nTailored induction and training to support your development from day one\nExclusive perks and savings through our M&S Choices portal\nMarket-leading family policies, including parental, adoption and neonatal leave\n24/7 wellbeing support, including virtual GP access and mental health services\nOne paid volunteer day a year to support a cause that matters to you\nEveryone’s Welcome\nWe 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.\nWe 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.\nIf 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. 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