Engineering Manager

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.

Job Purpose:

As an Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for driving the technical vision and development of your squad's software products. You will manage and inspire your squad to deliver high-quality, innovative solutions that meet business objectives and exceed customer expectations.

Key accountabilities:

• Co-own and drive the delivery of your squad’s OKRs with product and design counterparts
• Make sure your squad members understand requirements and break down work to small, independently releasable pieces
• Work with your squad to build a delivery plan which details the key dates and deliverables
• Regularly and effectively communicate delivery plan & progress with stakeholders
• Execute delivery plan in an Agile way (being Kanban or Scrum) including making and communicating adjustments to the plan, removing blocks, overcoming difficulties, getting resources/support from other teams - infrastructure, Data Science, Data Engineering etc., and discussing, making and communicating trade-offs
• Be responsible for end-to-end software development of your squad from story writing, coding, and testing, to shipping software regularly and product support
• Play a hands-on role in development. The extent will depend on the needs of the squad. For a mature squad, you are expected to stay hands-on coding up to 60% while for a newly formed squad it might be 40%
• Enable the squad to deliver high quality and secure software via upskilling squad members, setting up high quality standards and continuously measuring quality and security standards
• Continually look for opportunities and drive for improvements in terms of technical excellence, best engineering practice, cross-team collaboration and standards setting across the entire sub-domain
• Provide Technical leadership leading and guiding the squad to deliver the best technical solution
• Work with senior engineering manager and/or director to build hiring plan, hire and onboard new squad members
• Form strong relationships and work closely with product, commercial, design and client team counterparts
• Management of the engineers within the squad. Ensuring they understand expectations, help them build career development plan, continuously review the delivery plan spotting opportunities for them and carry out cyclical HR processes including performance and salary reviews

Experience required

• Hands on software engineering experience
• Cloud native software engineering experience is a must
• Good experience in dotnet full stack
• Experience in technical solutions design and architecture
• Be able to understand business requirement and translate to technical implementation
• Hands on experience in development
• Build connections with other teams and maintain the relationship so that you know who to ask for help when needed
• Business and commercial understanding
• Good stakeholder management experience
• Good experience of mentoring the team members
• Understanding of product's software eco system
• Strong people and performance management experience

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.  We want everyone to have the opportunity to shine and perform at your best throughout our recruitment process. Please let us know how we can make this process work best for you. For an informal and confidential chat please contact stephanie.winson@dunnhumby.com to discuss how we can meet your needs. 

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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