**Job Summary**
As a seasoned Engineering Manager, you will be instrumental in shaping the future of our Technology team by driving innovation and propelling our business forward. Collaborating with a creative team of tech enthusiasts, you will contribute your unique skills to fuel our technological advancements.
Key Responsibilities:
* Develop and execute strategies to build and run a large and complex Engineering domain, working closely with Product Managers & Product Owners to enable more frequent and faster deployments, improve software quality, reduce change failure rate, and improve mean time to recover in the event of an issue.* Create new products and deliver continuous value by delivering the product roadmap.* Promote Primark WoW and standards across engineering teams.* Oversight of design and delivery (development, testing and release/deploy) of engineering solutions for backlog items.* Oversight of production release (Go live) including AIS.* Experience in implementing engineering best practices for website and mobile apps (iOS and Android) enabling faster deployments, improving software quality and delivering value.* Define and govern software quality standards, service transition rigor and compliance to security to improve software delivery and operational performance measured through metrics such as MTTR, Change Failure Rate %, Deployment lead time and technical debt.* Oversee Engineering Demand management & Capacity management and be the overall Engineering Development escalation point for Product and Delivery.* 3rd party management, understanding contracts, commercials, performance management, metrics and drive to meet and exceed expectations.* Ensure compliance of engineering teams and ensure timely audit responses to known issues.* Define the Product Domain minimum viable 'Definition Of Ready' and 'Definition Of Done' with each team.* Ensure that Operational demand (defects, Tech Debt, risk/audit) is correctly represented in the Product Backlog in conjunction with Product Owners and Managers.* Work with the team and peers to develop shared, ambitious OKRs aligned to the strategy and hold ourselves accountable to these.* Ensure a culture of Stability, Security, Data Protection, and accessibility is built into all processes, procedures & products.
Requirements:
* 10+ years experience in Software engineering delivery or IT Transformation Delivery at an enterprise level, particularly in an agile at-scale environment.* Experience in owning and managing senior business stakeholder relationships.* An appropriate degree, equivalent qualification or experience scale - across people, process and technology domains, and a range of associated delivery frameworks, including agile.* Influencer: significant ability to grow, inspire, engage and coach a diverse team and create an inclusive culture across geographical boundaries.* Collaborative partner: develop trusted relationships with key stakeholders in Technology and across the wider Primark business.* People leadership: A people leader who role models through their own behaviour and actions, embedding change by inspiring, coaching, holding themselves and others to account and setting the right inclusive culture for team and partners.* Knowledge of technical product development principles and methodologies.
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