Software Engineering Manager – Integration

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Software Engineering Manager leading integration teams at M&S, delivering cloud-native integration platforms and improving service reliability. Focusing on operational excellence and transformation within the technology landscape.

Posted 7/1/2026full-timeLondon • 🇬🇧 United KingdomMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in engineering leadership, focusing on integration and platform engineering, with a strong emphasis on operational excellence, reliability engineering, and team development. Capable of driving platform modernization and managing vendor relationships while ensuring high performance and stability.

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Integration Engineering LeadershipEnterprise Messaging TechnologiesIntegration Middleware KnowledgeReliability Engineering ExpertiseServant-Leadership Mindset

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Hard Skills

Integration EngineeringPlatform EngineeringReliability EngineeringIncident ManagementOperational ExcellencePlatform ModernizationLegacy-to-Cloud TransformationSLOsObservabilityTechnical Direction

Soft Skills

LeadershipCommunicationStakeholder ManagementTeam DevelopmentAccountability

Tools & Technologies

IBM MQAzure Service BusACEMuleSoftAzure FunctionsLogic Apps

Industry Keywords

Integration Platform ArchitectureOperational PerformanceService ReliabilityVendor ManagementThird-Party Delivery

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AzureCloud

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Being accountable for engineering excellence across integration teams, from technical direction to operational performance and service reliability.
Leading and developing engineers, cultivating ownership, accountability and a strong engineering culture.
Defining the future integration platform architecture and roadmap in partnership with Principal Engineers and Architects.
Building platform capabilities, including self-service integration patterns and reusable components to enable product teams.
Maintaining operational excellence across the messaging backbone, ensuring stability, resilience and fast incident resolution.
Driving improvements in reliability, reducing incident rates, mean time to resolution and operational burden.
Partnering with other engineering leaders to ensure consistency in patterns, standards and ways of working.
Owning vendor relationships and third-party delivery, focusing on outcomes and platform performance.
Balancing priorities across operational stability, platform modernisation and technical debt reduction.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Experienced engineering leader with a background in integration or platform engineering.
Hands-on experience with enterprise messaging technologies such as IBM MQ, Azure Service Bus or similar.
Strong knowledge of integration middleware including ACE, MuleSoft, Azure Functions or Logic Apps.
Proven track record leading teams through platform modernisation or legacy-to-cloud transformation.
Strong understanding of reliability engineering, including SLOs, observability, incident management and operational excellence.
Ability to balance operational stability with transformation in a complex, high-volume environment.
Excellent leadership, communication and stakeholder management skills across technical and non-technical audiences.
A servant-leadership mindset, focused on enabling teams and owning outcomes.
Comfortable operating at both strategic and hands-on levels, from architecture discussions to incident support.

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