Head of Software Engineering – Finance Missions Teams

MS Companies

Lead engineering teams responsible for SAP change across all business units in Marks & Spencer. Deliver quality engineering leadership while managing multiple competing priorities.

Posted 6/18/2026full-timeSalford • 🇬🇧 United KingdomLeadWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Set the engineering standards and technical direction for SAP Mission Teams, aligned to the wider engineering organisation and enterprise SAP priorities.
Lead and develop 4–5 Engineering Managers, building strong engineering teams with clear accountability, high standards and a focus on delivery.
Own delivery of SAP changes across all mission teams, ensuring work is executed effectively against the priorities set by the SAP Product Teams.
Partner closely with Product to translate demand and outcomes into clear engineering deliverables in an agreed timeframe.
Ensure SAP changes are secure, reliable, observable and supportable, with strong engineering controls, appropriate service ownership and effective operational readiness.
Drive strong engineering practices across testing, continuous integration and delivery, production operations, incident management and reliability improvement.
Manage dependencies, technical risk and delivery trade-offs across multiple teams and programmes, ensuring SAP delivery remains aligned to business outcomes set by the SAP Product teams.
Work across business units to provide a consistent, high-quality engineering capability while remaining responsive to the specific needs of each domain.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Experience leading multiple offshore engineering teams through managers in a complex enterprise technology environment.
A strong track record of delivering business-critical SAP change with high levels of quality, reliability and operational control.
Experience working across multiple business units or domains, balancing competing priorities and translating diverse demand into clear engineering delivery plans.
Strong understanding of SAP engineering, integration patterns, delivery governance and production support in a large-scale enterprise environment.
A proven ability to partner effectively with product, engineering and business stakeholders to deliver change in support of wider strategic outcomes.
A leadership style that values clarity, simplicity, ownership and high engineering standards.

Benefits

Comp & perks

20% colleague discount on all M&S products and many third-party brands for you and someone in your household, available once you’ve completed your probation
Competitive holiday allowance with the option to buy more
Discretionary bonus schemes linked to your performance and ours
Strong pension and life assurance to help plan for the future
Tailored induction and training to support your development from day one
Exclusive perks and savings through our M&S Choices portal
Market-leading family policies, including parental, adoption and neonatal leave
24/7 wellbeing support, including virtual GP access and mental health services
One paid volunteer day a year to support a cause that matters to you

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Hard Skills & Tools

SAP engineeringintegration patternsdelivery governanceproduction supportcontinuous integrationincident managementreliability improvementengineering standardstechnical risk managementoperational readiness

Soft Skills

leadershipaccountabilityclaritysimplicityownershipcommunicationcollaborationresponsivenessstrategic thinkingproblem-solving