Software Engineering Manager - International Warehouse Products

Job purpose

Join M&S Software Engineering and help shape the digital future of one of the UK’s most trusted brands. You’ll work on products and platforms that support millions of customers and thousands of colleagues, as part of an organisation investing heavily in becoming digital-first and engineering‑led.

We’re looking for a Software Engineering Manager who combines strong technical judgement with a passion for building high‑performing teams. In this role, you’ll lead empowered, multidisciplinary engineers to design, build, release, and run robust software solutions, working in close partnership with Product and Delivery to solve meaningful customer and business problems.

This role sits within the International Warehouse Products team, supporting M&S’s International business across stores and online markets outside the UK and Ireland. You’ll lead a team that is central to M&S’s ambitious global expansion plans, building the orchestration layer that integrates Warehouse Management Systems across international hubs with core M&S systems. This is a key role in creating a scalable, flexible supply chain integration platform that helps M&S grow globally and operate more effectively across markets and partners.

This is an opportunity to help shape a best‑in‑class engineering culture, environment, and team. If you’re excited by modern technology, large‑scale impact, and the chance to influence how engineering is done at M&S, this is a place where you can do some of the best work of your career.

• Ensuring the operational stability and resilience of the software solutions owned by your team

• Delivering high‑quality software solutions that create measurable value for the business

• Improving team maturity and driving progress towards, or maintaining, Elite DORA standards

• Championing engineering excellence and fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement

• Establishing strong engineering standards and building pipelines to support maintainability and extensibility

• Ensuring cross‑functional requirements such as security, performance, and reliability are built into delivery

• Driving cloud‑first thinking and modernisation across the technology landscape

• Making effective use of shared platforms to maximise the value delivered by engineering teams

As a Software Engineering Manager, you’ll combine people leadership, technical direction, and delivery excellence to help teams solve problems through technology at scale.

• Team leadership: Build, mentor, and lead a high‑performing software engineering team, creating an environment of collaboration, inclusion, innovation, and continuous improvement. Ensure the right balance of people, resources, budgets, and priorities across projects.

• Delivery excellence: Oversee the planning, execution, and delivery of software initiatives, ensuring alignment with business goals, timelines, and customer outcomes. Manage risks and dependencies proactively, and work closely with Product, Design, and Delivery partners to define scope and priorities.

• Technical leadership: Drive the adoption of strong engineering practices, standards, and methodologies. Provide guidance on complex technical challenges, shape the team’s technical roadmap with senior engineers, and help balance technical investment with product and commercial priorities.

• Quality and reliability: Establish high quality standards so software meets performance, reliability, and usability expectations. Support the ongoing maintenance and improvement of existing systems, ensuring issues are resolved quickly and effectively.

Team uses a variety of technologies, including:

• Java, Spring, Spring Boot, Micronaut

• Azure Cloud, Kubernetes

• Kafka, IBM MQ

• Postgres, Redis

• Open Telemetry, Dynatrace

• A strong software engineering background, with experience across modern architectures, cloud platforms, and scalable backend systems

• A track record of building, leading, and developing high‑performing engineering teams

• Strong technical judgement across system design, software architecture, and modern engineering practices

• A Dev Ops mindset with a strong belief in “you build it, you run it”

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