Software Engineering Manager

As part of the M&S Software Engineering team, you’ll be joining a well-loved historic brand, working on solutions that serve millions of loyal customers and thousands of colleagues. This is an exciting time as we continue our transformation into a digital-first, engineering-led organisation, with technology playing a key role in delivering value across the business.

As a Software Engineering Manager, you’ll combine people leadership, technical direction and delivery excellence to build high-performing teams, drive engineering standards and deliver scalable software solutions that support business outcomes.

A key focus of this role will be supporting the Fashion, Home & Beauty programme to decouple core business capabilities from SAP. As part of this transformation, you will lead the engineering activities required to build new backend services and evolve existing platforms, ensuring solutions are scalable, maintainable and aligned to M&S technology strategy.

Due to high interest, this role may close earlier than advertised. We recommend applying as soon as possible.

What You'll Do

Your key accountabilities will include:

• Lead and develop a high-performing software engineering team, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, accountability and continuous improvement.
• Oversee the delivery of software initiatives, ensuring solutions are aligned to business goals, customer needs, timelines and quality expectations.
• Drive engineering excellence by establishing strong technical standards, challenging solution design decisions and promoting modern software engineering practices.
• Ensure software solutions are secure, reliable, resilient and operationally effective, with quality, performance and maintainability built into delivery.
• Manage relationships with vendors, partners and stakeholders, holding them accountable for high-quality delivery and successful business outcomes.
• Act as the primary Engineering contact for the wider SAP Decoupling Programme, partnering closely with Product, Delivery and Business stakeholders to ensure successful outcomes.
• Work with Domain Architects and Solution Architects to design and deliver appropriate technical solutions that support business processes transitioning away from SAP.
• Form, scale and lead engineering teams responsible for building new services and modernising existing capabilities, leveraging both existing and new engineering resources.
• Ensure strong engineering maturity, adherence to M&S technology standards and the effective adoption of AI tooling across the software development lifecycle where appropriate.