MS Companies

Engineering Manager

• Build, mentor, and manage a high-performing software engineering team.
• Oversee the planning, execution, and delivery of software projects, ensuring alignment with business objectives and timelines.
• Drive the adoption of standards and methodologies for software development.
• Establish and enforce quality standards, ensuring software products meet performance, reliability, and usability requirements.

Software Engineering Manager – Loyalty

• 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.

Software Engineering Manager – Integration

Financial Planning and Analysis

• Lead the end-to-end processing of Goods for Resale invoices, identifying root causes of EDI failures and working with business partners to resolve issues at source
• Own trade payables reconciliations, including GRNI processes, ensuring accuracy, timely resolution of differences, and strong financial control
• Manage and develop a team of 6–8 colleagues, building capability, driving performance, and creating an engaged and high-performing environment
• Take ownership of supplier relationships, resolving critical issues, improving communication, and enhancing the overall vendor experience
• Drive process improvement and operational efficiencies, using data and insight to reduce manual work and strengthen controls

Senior Finance Team Leader – P2P Vendor Experience

Planner

• Be responsible for the creation and optimisation of product ranges, ensuring they meet customer needs and deliver against commercial objectives
• Use cluster-based ranging to tailor ranges across stores and improve overall performance
• Analyse performance data and customer behaviour to see opportunities and inform decisions
• Work cross-functionally to ensure ranges are operationally deliverable and aligned to space, supply and execution
• Translate analysis into clear insights and recommendations that drive better commercial outcomes

Range Planner

Implementation Specialist

• Lead technical excellence from design to operations and launch of core product features or strategic programmes
• Drive technical direction and influence our overall strategy informing decisions on both Technology and Product investments as well as teams’ setup
• Champion Communities of Practice to help establish engineering excellence at M&S
• Lead by example via contributions to our engineering ecosystem
• Pioneer and promote methodologies like clean code and clean architecture
• Advocate for engineering productivity, delivery quality and operational excellence through a continuous ecosystem
• Drive DevOps practices to automate the Product development life cycle and ownership demeanour
• Partner with both Engineering, Technology and Product leadership to ensure strategies align
• Develop the best and mentor other senior engineering roles across the entire landscape
• Promote effective innovation across all of engineering
• Advocate and strategize for continuous industrialisation and product-minded tech capabilities
• Inspire ideas to foster purpose and mastery to engineering teams, leading them towards autonomy and maturity
• Amplify engineering teams by efficiently unblocking them with direction, leading upward, and establishing alignment
• Raise the profile of MS Tech through public content and contribution/creation into open-source technology
• Support recruitment, onboarding and internal and external brand outreach activities

Principal Software Engineer – Customer Platforms

AI Engineer

• Write, test, and debug code for complex features, distributed systems, or legacy migrations. Lead on designing and optimising deployment pipelines.
• Lead the development of architectural and design solutions for large-scale projects, ensuring that software solutions align with business requirements, long-term technology strategy, and technology standards.
• Review and provide constructive feedback on code submissions from team members, ensuring alignment to technical standards, maintainability, and high-quality software.
• Communicate and collaborate with a diverse range of collaborators, including senior management and external partners, while leading or starting communities of practice.
• Demonstrate a production first attitude, continuously considering observability and maintaining Service Level Objectives, while delivering change at pace.
• Embrace emerging technologies and trends, and share insights with the organisation, while developing and maintaining the team technology roadmap and leading on the strategic approach to monitoring and maintaining production systems.
• Write advanced system and operations documentation and perform advanced internal tech talks to share knowledge and best practices.

Senior Software Engineer – AI

Platform Engineer

• Write, test, and debug code for complex features, distributed systems, or legacy migrations. Lead on designing and optimising deployment pipelines.
• Provide technical guidance and support on complex, high-impact projects that align with team objectives, ensuring successful delivery of software solutions, while tackling the hardest technical challenges for the team.
• Lead the development of architectural and design solutions for large-scale projects, ensuring that software solutions align with business requirements, long-term technology strategy, and technology standards.
• Review and provide constructive feedback on code submissions from team members, ensuring alignment to technical standards, maintainability, and high-quality software.
• Communicate and collaborate with a diverse range of collaborators, including senior management and external partners, while leading or starting communities of practice.
• Actively mentor and coach engineers at all levels, fostering an environment of continuous learning and growth, while participating in hiring processes and training engineers up to Staff standard.
• Demonstrate a production first attitude, continuously considering observability and maintaining Service Level Objectives, while delivering change at pace.
• Embrace emerging technologies and trends, and share insights with the organisation, while developing and maintaining the team technology roadmap and leading on the strategic approach to monitoring and maintaining production systems.
• Write advanced system and operations documentation and perform advanced internal tech talks to share knowledge and best practices.
• Assist with the recruitment and onboarding of new engineers into the organisation

Staff AI Software Engineer – AI Engineering Platform

• Ensuring the operational stability and resilience of the software solutions owned by your team
• Delivering high-quality software solutions that create measurable value for the business
• Fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement, and establishing strong engineering standards
• Ensuring cross-functional requirements such as security, performance, and reliability are built into delivery
• Holding our Vendors and partners to account for all aspects of good software delivery
• Challenging solution architecture, and helping drive the right approach for any given business requirement
• Build, mentor, and manage a high-performing software engineering team. Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement within the team. Facilitate communication and collaboration among team members. Ensure budgets, people and resource allocation, and workload, balance across projects.
• Oversee the planning, execution, and delivery of software initiatives, ensuring alignment with business goals, timelines, and customer outcomes. Manage risks and dependencies proactively, and work closely with Product, Design, and Delivery partners to define scope and priorities.
• Drive the adoption of strong engineering practices, standards, and methodologies. Provide guidance on complex technical challenges, shape the team’s technical roadmap with senior engineers, and help balance technical investment with product and commercial priorities.
• Establish high quality standards so software meets performance, reliability, and usability expectations. Support the ongoing maintenance and improvement of existing systems, ensuring issues are resolved quickly and effectively.

Software Engineering Manager – Commercial Trading

Full-stack Engineer

• Lead technical excellence from design to operations and launch of core product features
• Drive technical direction and influence our overall strategy
• Champion Communities of Practice
• Lead by example via contributions to our engineering ecosystem
• Pioneer and promote methodologies like clean code and clean architecture
• Advocate for engineering productivity, delivery quality and operational excellence
• Drive DevOps practices to automate the Product development life cycle
• Partner with both Engineering, Technology and Product leadership
• Develop the best and mentor other senior engineering roles
• Promote effective innovation across all of engineering
• Advocate and strategize for continuous industrialisation and product-minded tech capabilities
• Inspire ideas to foster purpose and mastery to engineering teams
• Amplify engineering teams by efficiently unblocking them
• Raise the profile of MS Tech through public content
• Support recruitment, onboarding and internal and external brand outreach activities

Principal Software Engineer – Food

• Set the engineering strategy and technical direction for Corporate HR, aligned to Central Tech and the wider engineering organisation.
• Lead and develop 4–5 Engineering Managers and support strong software engineering and Software Development Engineer in Test teams.
• Oversee the engineering health of the core HR technology estate, including:
• Oracle PeopleSoft for workforce record administration, compensation, learning and core HR processes
• SD Worx for payroll
• JDA for workforce management
• Totara for learning management
• Oleeo for applicant tracking and recruitment workflows
• Provide engineering leadership across a wide set of integrated specialist platforms, including systems such as:
• Avature, Criterion, TalentBrew, Invenias, HireVue, SAP Fieldglass, 10x and Rare in recruitment
• Oracle HelpDesk / CRM and Anana in colleague interaction
• PAM Group, Gallagher, Capita, Legal & General, Reward Gateway, Salary Finance, Equiniti, Zenith and Terryberry in reward and wellbeing
• SAP WPB, GoodPractice and Guider in learning and development
• OASIS, OrgVue, Oracle Business Intelligence, ETS and Hallmark PAMS across document management, organisation modelling, analytics and colleague services
• Be accountable for the large number of integrations, interfaces and data exchanges across this estate, including flows between HR, payroll, workforce management, identity and access management, finance, reporting and third-party providers.
• Ensure systems and integrations are secure, reliable, observable and supportable, with clear ownership, support models, runbooks and service measures.
• Drive strong engineering practices across architecture, documentation, testing, continuous integration and continuous delivery, production operations, incident management and service ownership.
• Simplify legacy technology, reduce unnecessary complexity and manage technical debt across a multi-vendor environment.
• Shape pragmatic target architectures, including improved application programming interface and event-driven integration patterns where they are the right fit.
• Work closely with stakeholders across HR and Technology to shape roadmaps, prioritise risk, and make technical trade-offs visible.

Head of Software Engineering – HR

• 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.

Head of Software Engineering – Finance Missions Teams

• Set the engineering standards and technical direction for SAP Core Finance, 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 and quality.
• Own delivery of SAP changes across the core finance domains, ensuring work is executed effectively against agreed priorities.
• Partner closely with Product to translate finance domain demand and outcomes into clear engineering deliverables in an agreed timeframe.
• Ensure SAP finance 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 defined by the product teams engaging with business stakeholders.
• Work across business units to provide a consistent, high-quality engineering capability while remaining responsive to the specific needs of each finance domain.

Head of Software Engineering – Core Finance

• Ensuring the operational stability and resilience of the software solutions owned by your team.
• Delivering high-quality software solutions that create measurable value for the business.
• Improving team maturity and driving progress towards, or maintaining, Elite DORA standards.
• Championing engineering excellence and fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.
• Establishing strong engineering standards and build pipelines to support maintainability and extensibility.
• Ensuring cross-functional requirements such as security, performance, and reliability are built into delivery.
• Driving cloud-first thinking and modernisation across the technology landscape.
• Making effective use of shared platforms to maximise the value delivered by engineering teams.

Software Engineering Manager – International Pricing

• Ensuring the operational stability and resilience of the software solutions owned by your team
• Delivering high-quality software solutions that create measurable value for the business
• Improving team maturity and driving progress towards, or maintaining, Elite DORA standards
• Championing engineering excellence and fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement
• Establishing strong engineering standards and build pipelines to support maintainability and extensibility
• Ensuring cross-functional requirements such as security, performance, and reliability are built into delivery
• Driving cloud-first thinking and modernisation across the technology landscape
• Making effective use of shared platforms to maximise the value delivered by engineering teams

Software Engineering Manager – International Warehouse Products

• Software Development: Develop, test, and debug software solutions, taking a lead on what good coding practices look like.
• Technical Leadership: Provide expert guidance on complex projects, ensuring that software solutions align both with our strategy, technology standards, and follow engineering best practice.
• Architecture and Design: Lead the design of scalable and adaptable software solutions or 3rd party integrations, whilst partnering with colleagues in Architecture.
• Code Review: Conduct thorough code reviews to ensure adherence to technical standards, maintainability, automated testing and high-quality code. Foster a culture of continuous improvement.
• Collaboration: Gain a deep understanding of our area, working with key business stakeholders, product managers, and other engineers to be able to craft the most effective technical solutions.
• Mentorship: Mentor and coach engineers at all levels, sharing your knowledge and experience to help them grow and develop their skills.
• Operational Excellence: Ensure our systems are well monitored, with good alerting, and tooling to support incident response and investigation. Ensure learnings are fed back into the development process.
• Innovation: Stay abreast of emerging technologies. Propose and implement innovative solutions to improve our operations and enhance customer service.