Engineering Manager - Data Platforms and Capabilities

Job description

Why join us

Everything starts with our products. As a retailer we are focused on planning, buying, moving and selling products. And the data we hold about those products is the DNA of any retailer. We need to track all the key information about the products across the organisation, and we have multiple internal teams and stakeholders, as well as our customers, dependent on the timeliness and quality of that data. In this software engineering domain, we help deliver that capability. By engineering innovative, smart technology, we put the tools in our colleagues’ hands to set up, manage & share data about our products as and when they need to. This data underpins everything from our global supply chain to the data on our websites to the information on our packaging. Whether it’s wine from New Zealand or milk from the local dairy farm, or electronics from East Asia, our tech performs. We solve problems at scale. We keep our product data flowing smoothly around the clock, because what’s important to our colleagues and customers, is important to us.

About the Team 

The Data Platforms and Capabilities Teams are responsible for developing and supporting centralized tooling and platforms. These enable Data producers and consumers to efficiently interact with robust data products generated by Data and Analytics teams. We consistently support the business with its goals to standardize processes and tooling. We continually strive to ensure our products and platforms are designed and managed with best practices at their core to ensure scalable, robust, and secure processes, thereby reducing the engineering effort needed from squads in building and supporting their own custom solutions. Our teams comprise of Engineering Managers, Product Managers, Data Software Engineers, and Architects.

What you'll do

• You will lead a multi-skilled engineering team to deliver innovative and high-performing solutions that create value and drive efficiency for our business. 
• With end-to-end ownership of products, you will oversee both change and run activities while owning the entire technology stack, including service management. 
• Collaborating closely with product owners and the business, you will use your technical expertise to drive progress and influence outcomes. 
• Your responsibilities will include recruiting and retaining a talented team, mentoring and coaching colleagues, shaping a world-class engineering function, and ensuring the team possesses the right skills for product development. 
• Additionally, you will contribute to defining the technical direction and vision, foster communities of practise, advocate and embed agile / lean delivery methodologies, manage initiative budgets, and oversee service support and SLAs. 
• Your role will involve managing people and product financial data, meeting targets, providing accurate reporting, and seeking value realisation opportunities. 
• Overall, you will lead by example and inspire your team, continuously striving for improvement and delivering impactful solutions while maintaining attention to detail and effectively managing resources.

Who you are

• You are an experienced and passionate leader with a deep understanding of the critical role that product data plays in the success of a retailer. 
• With your technical expertise and end-to-end ownership mindset, you can drive the delivery of innovative solutions that create value, increase efficiency, and enhance performance for our business. 
• With an understanding of how to recruit, retain, and motivate teams, you have  excellent interpersonal skills and commitment to fostering a collaborative and inclusive culture. 
• You bring cutting-edge processes and technologies to the table, always looking to enhance our engineering practises and driving the adoption of agile / lean delivery methodologies. 
• With your hands-on experience in languages, tools, and infrastructure, you lead by example, inspire your teams, and ensure successful delivery of large-scale platforms. 
• Your attention to detail, strategic mindset, and financial acumen enable you to manage budgets and optimise value realisation, while always prioritising the needs of our customers and the continuous improvement of our engineering capabilities.

We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer, so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new - whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them:
 
 Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to get 10% off at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat after 4 weeks. This increases to 15% off at Sainsbury’s every Friday and Saturday and 15% off at Argos every pay day. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 20% of salary, depending on how we perform.  
 
 Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance, and you can buy additional holiday. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, interest free car loan of up to £10k, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, pay advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an Employee Assistance Programme, you will also be eligible for private healthcare too.

Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave. 
 
 Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).