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Software Development Manager - User Interaction Service

Job Reference tesco/TP/14156964/910368

Number of Positions:
1
Contract Type:
Permanent
Salary:
Competitive
Location:
London
Closing Date:
24/10/2024
Job Category:
Technology
Business Unit:
GB Head Office

What’s in it for you

We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we make sure our Tesco colleague benefits package takes care of you – both in and out of work. Click Here to find out more!

  • Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary
  • Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
  • Private medical insurance
  • 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years’ service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 4 weeks fully paid paternity leave
  • Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing

About the role

At Tesco, we believe in the power of spending more time together, face to face, than apart. So, during your working week, you can expect to spend 60% of your time in one of our office locations or local sites and the rest remotely. We also recognise that life looks a little different for each of us. Some people are at the start of their careers, some want the freedom to do the things they love. Others are going through life-changing moments like becoming a carer, nearing retirement, adapting to parenthood, or something else. That’s why at Tesco, we always welcome a conversation about flexible working. So, talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.

As a Software Development Manager you are the first engineering management role. You impact positively the teams you lead, the people you manage and the products you are responsible for whilst helping build the right culture within your domain. You hire, develop, and retain our Software Development Engineers to set them up for success. You build performing teams that consistently deliver quality software, whilst empowering your engineers to own technical decisions. You work effectively with your stakeholders and product teams to ensure the right outcomes are delivered. You play a key role in formulating the technical strategy and roadmap for your area. 

You will be responsible for

Playing an active role in people management and technical leadership.  Impacting the teams you lead, the people you manage and the product you are responsible for, whilst having a direct impact upon the environment and continuous improvement within your domain. You are responsible for building and developing high performing teams.

Taking accountability for the environment that your teams operate within and the processes and standards that facilitate high quality software delivery.

Ensuring the right product outcomes through the right technical strategy and trade-offs.

You build capability by hiring, retaining, and developing the careers of our engineers, ensuring opportunities for growth and maintaining a level of challenge and motivation.

Establish and sustain the environment for development to succeed. Your primary focus is to hire, develop and retain our Software Development Engineers (SDEs). You lead and develop our SDEs through tailored plans, 1-2-1 meetings, coaching and mentoring whilst aligning opportunities to grow expertise alongside the goals of the wider team and business. You ensure SDEs are set up for success and provide course corrections when needed.

You are responsible for building performing teams that consistently deliver quality software whilst balancing the demands of timeframes and needs.

Ensuring the right levels of processes, practices, and standards to build and operate products, aligned to the wider Technology strategy and standards.  Driving continuous improvement across your teams and directorate, capturing the right data to affect practices and delivery.

Guiding and empowering your engineers to own technical decisions whilst understanding when guidance is needed.

Playing a major role in the process of releasing value to our customers. You are accountable for the products you work on and proactively identify risks, propose mitigations, and understand when to escalate or ask for help.

Building balanced, empathetic relationships with  stakeholders and product teams, collaborating effectively to ensure the right outcomes are delivered. 

Playing a key role in formulating the technical strategy and roadmap for your area to support the growth of our business objectives and maintaining our competitive advantage.  

Driving architecture, design, implementation, adoption, and re-usability of technology within your teams and the wider technology community, crafting a culture of innovation and technical excellence.

You will need

  • Experience managing software engineers, supporting their career development and growth.
  • Good knowledge of Java and the associated ecosystem.
  • Experience leading complex software development programmes.
  • Demonstrated experience designing, developing and running highly-scalable distributed systems.
  • Experience implementing a range of design and architecture patterns.
  • Experience of technical leadership within a team. Coaching, supporting and mentoring 

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About us

Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home or out on the move. Our core purpose is ‘Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day’. Serving means more than a transactional relationship with our customers. It means acting as a responsible and sustainable business for all stakeholders, for the communities we are part of and for the planet.

Diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) at Tesco means that whoever you are and whatever your background, we always want you to feel represented and that you can be yourself at work. In short, we’re a place where Everyone’s Welcome. We’re proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader and we’re committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, please click here.

We’re a big business and we can offer a range of diverse full-time & part-time working patterns across our many business areas, which means that we can find something that works for you.  We work in a more blended pattern -combining office and remote working.  Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate.