Engineering Manager Scrum

1 month ago

Shirebrook Derbyshire, United Kingdom Frasers Group Full time

At Frasers Group we’re rethinking retail. Through digital innovation and unique store experiences, we’re serving our consumers with the world’s best sports, premium and luxury brands globally. As a leader in the industry, we’re elevating the retail experience for our consumers through our collection of established brands, including Sports Direct, FLANNELS, USC, Frasers, and GAME.
Our mission- we are building the worlds most admired and compelling brand ecosystem

Our purpose – we are elevating the lives of the many with access to the world’s best brands and experiences

This role is a 12-24 month fixed term contract and will required on site presence 2/3 days a week at our Shirebrook HQ.

The Head of Digital Engineering will play a critical role at Frasers Group. As we undergo significant transformation across our digital platforms, we seek an experienced leader to drive our Digital Engineering strategy. You will lead a transformation program focused on enhancing the agility and efficiency of our department while also growing our eCommerce platform. A vital aspect of this role is leading the engineering team through a large-scale MACH architecture and composable commerce transformation program. Check out this article from the Retail Gazette outlining our ambitious digital transformation plans Frasers Group overhauls company-wide digital infrastructure - Retail Gazette

Lead the transformation and modernisation of our eCommerce platform, ensuring scalability, robustness, and the ability to handle high transaction volumes.
Provide strong leadership and organisation across engineering teams, fostering a culture of continuous improvement, professional development, and high performance.
Implement and enhance development processes that meet stringent quality, security, and scalability standards.
Collaborate with teams across the business, such as Retail, Warehouse, Commercial, and other key departments to ensure seamless delivery of technical solutions that align with overall business objectives, maintaining a solid focus on MACH principles .
Technology Evaluation and Innovation: Stay ahead of industry trends, evaluate emerging technologies, and recommend scalable, high-performance solutions tailored to business needs. Performance Optimisation: Enhance the performance, scalability, and reliability of eCommerce solutions by identifying bottlenecks, implementing caching strategies, and improving system responsiveness, especially in high-traffic environments.

Quality Assurance and Governance: Establish quality assurance processes to maintain high standards in software development, conducting code reviews, performance testing, and user acceptance testing. Maintain coding standards and promote software quality across the engineering team.

Lead knowledge transfer and training, ensuring the team is equipped with modern skills and practices, especially in MACH architecture and cloud-native development.

Proactively identify opportunities to streamline workflows, optimise system performance, and improve the user experience.

Facilitate the upskilling of teams as they transition to MACH-based and composable commerce architectures, leading training efforts and fostering technical growth.
15+ years of relevant work experience in software development.
~10+ years of management experience leading diverse engineering teams.
~ Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
~ Proven Experience in leading a large-scale MACH architecture and composable commerce transformation program, guiding engineering teams through transformative digital changes.
~ Deep understanding of DevOps and Agile methodologies, with the ability to implement and advocate for cross-functional squads, continuous integration, delivery pipelines, and high levels of automation
~ A track record of leading high-performing software development teams, with extensive experience in modernising and scaling digital platforms.
~ Strong technical expertise in software design, cloud-based solutions, and development methodologies, with specific knowledge of MACH principles and microservices architectures
~ Leadership and organisational skills to manage large, distributed teams, fostering collaboration and maintaining a high-performance standard.
~ Proficiency in cloud-native solutions and composable commerce architectures, with a deep knowledge of technologies like JavaScript (ES6+), React, Node.js, NoSQL/SQL databases, GraphQL/REST APIs, and microservices architecture.
~ Demonstrated ability to set and maintain coding standards, oversee code reviews, and ensure software quality across teams.
~ Experience managing third-party suppliers, offshore teams, and contractors.
~ Along with your benefits package we also offer a wide range of perks for our colleagues:

If that happens for 30 or more consecutive trading days, all colleagues across the business will receive a bonus The top 1000 performers in the company will receive unprecedented bonuses, worth from £50,000 to £1million Senior leaders across the business nominate these performers twice a year for embodying our core values and delivering exceptional performance*.

*Our Frasers Festival is our celebration for Head Office and Retail Staff across the UK and Europe – hosting a MEGA brand village, guest speakers from the world's biggest brands, evening entertainment, the ultimate Frasers Fearless Fitness Challenge and much more.

Employees have the chance to connect, network and submit questions around specific topics such as our Sports or Luxury business.

Retail Reconnect – In order to build the planets most admired and compelling brand ecosystem, all employees must understand our business, product and customers. Each financial year, Head Office employees will gain insights by spending two days in one of our stores or the Warehouse. The goal is to learn how the work you do impacts our teams on the frontline, and to bring ideas back to the office which will improve how we work.

Frasers Fit – Our Everlast Gyms Team are on a mission to make our workforce the best, and fittest on the planet We run free gym classes for employees as well as discounted memberships to our clubs. Frasers Fit is our wellbeing programme which aims to support and improve colleagues Physical, Financial & Mental wellbeing. The app is accessible for every employee and includes training, nutrition and lifestyle advice- all completely free.

Retail Trust – We know that its not just about physical health, mental wellness is equally important which is why all of our employees get free access and support from the Retail Trust charity. This includes a 24 hour wellbeing helpline, wellness hub, counselling and financial/legal support.

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