Job Description

Engineering Manager (Cloud Platforms)

We’re Kingfisher, a team made up of over 74,000 passionate people who bring Kingfisher - and all our other brands: Castorama, B&Q, Screwfix, Brico Dépôt and Koçtaş - 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. Therefore, we offer colleagues a blend of working from home and our office, located in Kraków. Talk to us about how we can best support you!

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.

We offer a competitive benefit package and plenty of opportunities to stretch and grow your career:

• Private medical healthcare at LUXMED (including dentalcare) for you and your family
• Medicover sports card (Fit&More package)
• Life insurance financed by the employer
• 30-minute lunch break included in the 8-hour working day
• Work in a highly professional and stimulating atmosphere
• Training & Buddy programme that will allow you to quickly adapt to your new role
• Wellbeing programme for employees
• Co-financing of monthly tickets for the public transport in Krakow
• Comfortable working environment in the office and the possibility of home office
• Language courses, accounting courses, access to LinkedIn Learning and the possibility of co-financing studies and certification
• Employee referral programme

What's the job?

About the role

Working in the Cloud Platforms and SRE Chapter, the role will be ensuring the delivery of the roadmaps for the Cloud Platforms squads. You will work with the squads to ensure they are building and supporting the core cloud platforms that are used by our engineering teams build their applications and services.

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 customer first approach building the platform to support the needs for multiple squads.

This is an engineering leadership role which encompasses people, process & delivery responsibility. The role leads and manages multiple engineering squads to deliver outcomes and opportunities for our business.

If you're looking for an exciting opportunity to step out of your comfort zone and make a real impact building better software, this is the job for you!

Responsibilities

• Accountable for their domain squads, with equal focus on both people and successful outcomes. They build their teams with excellence 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 manage 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, coaching and feedback to their team, with a focus on people's development and performance. Champions engagement within 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 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 strong knowledge of DevOps practices, monitoring and cloud environments.
• Demonstrable experience leading and shaping 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.
• Broad understanding of the IT industry, markets, trends, emerging technologies, and their implications for retail organisations.
• Understanding of the banner imperatives and service requirements of retail or similar organisations.
• Experience of shaping, motivating, and driving change within a large, complex, matrix and fastmoving environment.
• Excellent stakeholder management & influencing skills at all levels of the organisation. Excellent communication, collaboration, and leadership skills.
• Effective and creative problem-solving and decision-making.
• Experience in assessing RCA with a view to addressing systemic issues.
• Ability and willingness to continuously improve and break the status-quo approach
• Ability to navigate complexity and ambiguity to quickly identify simple/effective solutions.
• Talented people leader, coaching, mentoring, facilitation, and teaching, whilst developing a pipeline of future talent
• Excellent command of English (written and spoken)

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