Software Engineering Manager - SAP Decoupling

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.

• 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.

• Proven experience leading and developing high-performing software engineering teams, delivering scalable and high-quality software solutions.
• Strong software engineering background with experience across a range of technologies, architectures and distributed systems.
• Excellent understanding of software architecture, system design, cloud technologies, Dev Ops principles and engineering best practices.
• Strong people leadership, communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence both technical and non-technical audiences.
• A collaborative, servant-leadership approach with strong analytical and problem-solving skills, coupled with a focus on continuous improvement and ownership.
• Experience leading large-scale technology transformation initiatives, modernisation programmes or platform migrations across complex enterprise environments.
• Strong technical judgement with the ability to challenge architectural decisions, balance business priorities with technical requirements and drive pragmatic outcomes.

The teams use a variety of technologies, including:

• Java, Spring, Spring Boot and Micronaut
• React, Next.js, Type Script and Angular
• Azure Cloud, Kubernetes and Dynatrace
• SQL Server and MongoDB
• Ignite and Redis

• Java and Micronaut
• Potential use of Kotlin for new backend service development

• Knowledge of the Retail domain, particularly around the Clothing Product Development and Planning lifecycle, would be highly advantageous.
• Experience delivering SAP modernisation, decomposition or decoupling programmes.
• Experience…