Engineering Manager - DevEx and SRE

Overview

We're Kingfisher, A team made up of over 74,000 passionate people who bring Kingfisher - and all our other brands: B&Q, Screwfix, Brico Depot, Castorama and Koctas - to life.

That's right, we're big, but we have ambitions to become even bigger and even better. We want to become the leading home improvement company and grow the largest community of home improvers in the world. And that's where you come in.

At Kingfisher our customers come from all walks of life, and so do we. We want to ensure that all colleagues, future colleagues, and applicants to Kingfisher are treated equally regardless of age, gender, marital or civil partnership status, colour, ethnic or national origin, culture, religious belief, philosophical belief, political opinion, disability, gender identity, gender expression or sexual orientation.

We are open to flexible and agile working, both of hours and location. Therefore, we offer colleagues a blend of working from home and our offices, located in London, Southampton & Yeovil. Talk to us about how we can best support you!

Working in the Cloud Platforms and SRE Chapter, the role will be ensuring the delivery of the roadmaps for the Developer Experience and SRE squads.

You will work with the squads to ensure they are optimising for reducing friction in the engineering workflow and improving the reliability of products our engineering teams build. Working in conjunction with the Principal Engineer, you will be talking to stakeholders across our engineering teams to help formulate the roadmaps that the team will be working on.

You will be taking a data-driven approach to identify where the bottlenecks in the engineering workflow are or where reliability can be improved. This is an engineering leadership role which encompasses people, process & delivery responsibility. The role leads and runs multiple engineering squads to deliver outcomes and opportunities for our business.

What's the job?

• Accountable for their domain squads, with equal focus on both people and successful outcomes. They build their teams with perfection in mind. Planning and oversight of their squads, working closely with their Engineering Squad Leads, makes up a large element of their daily lives. They support and influence their teams towards technical excellence through a culture of continuous improvement, learning, and process ownership.
• Collaborates with peers to run interdependencies. Works with stakeholders across all levels of the business to ensure customer value is delivered on time and to budget, whilst maintaining software and quality standards.
• Provides inspiration, mentor and feedback to their team, with a focus on people's development and performance. Champions engagement within the domain, in conjunction with Squad Leads.
• Utilise their first-hand experience to communicate their vision & shape their Domain's impact. They combine their passions for software engineering and leading by example to nurture impactful teams.
• Collaborate with the Chapter to define & support career development for their engineers and squads leads. Drive highly effective communication and engagement across banner and group stakeholders, communicating the Engineering vision & strategy and their alignment with banner and group roadmaps.
• Work with the relevant Chapters to define goals and objectives for the engineers and squad leads. Deploy the performance processes for their squads, using the Chapter toolkits.
• Implement and contribute to talent management, coaching and succession planning for the Domain; using the chapter tool-kit.
• Foster and grow a highly collaborative and inclusive Domain, that enables evolution of high performing, engaged and inclusive Squads.

What you'll bring

• Considerable experience developing software with a quality focus, coupled with proven understanding of DevOps practices, monitoring and cloud environments.
• Proven experience leading and crafting impactful software engineering teams. Experience supporting and working within defined quality governance frameworks and driving to insert testing earlier into the lifecycle.
• Able to facilitate Cloud Engineers working closely together to remove barriers/silos/hand offs.
• Understanding of the banner imperatives and service requirements of retail or similar organisations.
• Experience in shaping, motivating, and driving change within a large, complex, matrixed and fast-paced environment.
• Experience in assessing RCA to address systemic issues.
• Ability and willingness to continuously improve and break the status quo approach
• Talented people leader, coaching, mentoring, facilitation, and teaching, whilst developing a pipeline of future talent

Be Customer Focused - constantly improving our customers' experience

• I listen to my customers

• I use available data to help make decisions

Be Human - acting with humanity and care

• I do the right thing

• I am respectful

Be Curious - thrive on learning, thinking beyond the obvious

• I build and share new ideas

• I try new things and share my learnings

Be Agile - working with trust, pace and agility

• I have courage to be creative

• Done is better than perfect, I aim for 80/20

Be Inclusive - acting inclusively in diverse teams to work together

• I embrace allyship

• I have self-awareness and a desire to learn

Be Accountable - championing the plan to deliver results and growth

• I own my actions

• I understand the Kingfisher plan and how it relates to my role

At Kingfisher, we value the perspectives that any new team members bring, and we want to hear from you. We encourage you to apply for one of our roles even if you do not feel you meet 100% of the requirements.

In return, we offer an inclusive environment, where what you can achieve is limited only by your imagination! We encourage new ideas, actively support experimentation, and strive to build an environment where everyone can be their best self. Find out more about Diversity & Inclusion at Kingfisher here!

We also offer a competitive benefits package and plenty of opportunities to stretch and grow your career.

Interested? Great, apply now and help us to Power the Possible.

• Strong collaborative skills, with a proven track record working constructively with engineering squad leads, seeking common ground and compromise to achieve shared goals
• Adept at identifying and capturing solutions for non-functional requirements for the products and services being delivered.
• Ability to lead and build engineering principles, practices, and patterns.