Engineering Director - Personalisation

dunnhumby is the global leader in Customer Data Science, empowering businesses everywhere to compete and thrive in the modern data-driven economy. We always put the Customer First.

Our mission: to enable businesses to grow and reimagine themselves by becoming advocates and champions for their Customers. With deep heritage and expertise in retail – one of the world’s most competitive markets, with a deluge of multi-dimensional data – dunnhumby today enables businesses all over the world, across industries, to be Customer First.

dunnhumby employs nearly 2,500 experts in offices throughout Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas working for transformative, iconic brands such as Tesco, Coca-Cola, Meijer, Procter & Gamble and Metro.

Dunnhumby is looking for a Product Engineering Director to look after and grow our Personalized Offers, Digital Recommenders and Measurement area.  

Job Responsibility

• Lead all people across the relevant engineering department, ensuring the right client focused culture, setting the standard for engineering, test, and operational excellence and driving best practice
• Develop the purpose, remit and roadmap for their department, working closely with product management to translate and balance requirements and influence priorities and trade-offs
• Own and manage the full budget and staffing plans for their area
• Manage a team of Engineering Managers, lead on performance evaluations and ensure team members have individual development plans and required training.
• Oversee all related outsourced activities. Manage all relevant 3rd party providers and the related budget and ensure high quality deliverables
• As required, lead on the design of highly complex applications, components, software, platforms or services and the implementation of any data models, marts, flows required. Work closely with the Science, Security, Architecture, Infrastructure and UX functions to ensure appropriate architecture, infrastructure and UX for the developed products
• Follow-up on deliverables and remove tactical obstacles to ensure the defined roadmap is delivered and desired expectations are met
• As required, ensure the support model is correctly implemented for all products being developed both technically and in any process required to operate

What we expect from you

• Degree or equivalent in a relevant subject.
• 15+ years of experience with product development in the software industry 
• Strong experience in software development and architecture
• Experience within retail across a number of areas e.g. merchandising, planning, category management, buying, brand marketing, media activation and evaluation etc.
• Understands software engineering practices
• Experience in any backend programming language
• Cloud infrastructure, management and hosting (GCP or Azure) & CI/CD
• Software testing tools (Cypress, xUnit, Scala Test)

What you can expect from us

We won’t just meet your expectations. We’ll defy them. So you’ll enjoy the comprehensive rewards package you’d expect from a leading technology company. But also, a degree of personal flexibility you might not expect.  Plus, thoughtful perks, like flexible working hours and your birthday off.

You’ll also benefit from an investment in cutting-edge technology that reflects our global ambition. But with a nimble, small-business feel that gives you the freedom to play, experiment and learn.

And we don’t just talk about diversity and inclusion. We live it every day – with thriving networks including dh Gender Equality Network, dh Proud, dh Family, dh One and dh Thrive as the living proof. Everyone’s invited.

Our approach to Flexible Working

At dunnhumby, we value and respect difference and are committed to building an inclusive culture by creating an environment where you can balance a successful career with your commitments and interests outside of work.

We believe that you will do your best at work if you have a work / life balance. Some roles lend themselves to flexible options more than others, so if this is important to you please raise this with your recruiter, as we are open to discussing agile working opportunities during the hiring process.

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