Full-stack Engineer

• Define and lead the execution of technology strategies aligned with market needs in the Life, Retirement, and Pensions sector.
• Build and maintain strong collaborative relationships with CTOs and senior stakeholders to co-develop innovative solutions.
• Establish and refine market propositions by continuously assessing technological advancements and client feedback.
• Lead large-scale technology transformation projects focused on operational efficiency and compliance.
• Foster strategic alliances with key technology players to expand solution offerings and market reach.
• Drive business development initiatives by identifying new opportunities and presenting compelling business cases.
• Manage cross-functional teams to deliver high-impact technology solutions and thought leadership.
• Promote a culture of innovation and continuous improvement within the team and client engagements.

Tech Strategy & Innovation Lead – Life Insurance and Retirement

• Lead on team practices, notably implementing lean/kanban across all teams, and help migrate those teams not currently in lean/kanban mode
• Work with technical team leads on language, database and tooling decisions
• Manage the day to day: 1:1s, blockers and delivery rhythm
• Ensure all team leads are delivering against learning objectives, and run Show and Tells
• Monitor delivery velocity across all squads and report to the CTO
• Build and maintain automated test coverage, and set QA standards across the team
• Provide SDET-level input into test architecture and automation frameworks
• Own code review culture: standards, consistency and feedback quality
• Work in tandem with the CTO to identify, pilot and roll out AI developer tooling across the team

Engineering Lead

• Support and maintain critical interfaces between real-time operational systems and business applications.
• Ensure high levels of system availability, reliability, and performance.
• Provide technical expertise, support incident resolution, and collaborate with internal teams, suppliers, and stakeholders.
• Responsible for the operation, maintenance, and integrity of the CSS Interfaces suite, ensuring reliable 24/7 service.
• Provide technical support to Operational Support Engineers and key business stakeholders.
• Coordinate with Cyber Security teams to manage interface-related changes, developments, and vulnerabilities.
• Support Control Centre operations, including fault resolution, maintenance activities, and system enhancements.
• Maintain business-critical systems, including system monitoring, upgrades, repairs, access control, and documentation.
• Develop and maintain operational procedures, backup plans, and supporting documentation.
• Monitor system performance and implement proactive measures to improve reliability.
• Liaise with internal customers and third-party support providers to resolve issues and support service delivery.
• Contribute to reporting and data analysis activities using system data, scripts, and reporting tools.
• Support user training and knowledge sharing across the business.

Senior Interface Engineer

• Own end-to-end quality outcomes across key retail platforms including POS and Self-Checkout, ensuring reliability, performance, security and resilience across transaction flows.
• Shape quality strategy and engineering standards for retail technology solutions, influencing architecture, automation frameworks and long-term platform direction.
• Drive operational excellence by improving testing practices, supporting incident investigation, reducing repeat failures and enhancing platform stability.
• Lead and mentor engineers through quality best practice, code reviews, automation excellence and knowledge sharing across teams.
• Champion DevOps and continuous testing practices, supporting automated delivery pipelines, production releases and out-of-hours platform support when required.

Staff Software Engineer – Self Checkouts

• Design, build, and evolve secure, scalable, and high-performance authentication and identity services used by millions of customers and colleagues.
• Own features end-to-end, taking responsibility for solution design, development, testing, deployment, monitoring, and production support.
• Help shape the technical direction of the Identity Platform, balancing customer experience, security, performance, and developer usability.
• Develop resilient APIs and backend services that enable secure authentication, authorisation, and identity management capabilities across the organisation.
• Champion engineering excellence through clean, maintainable, and well-tested code, helping establish best practices across teams.
• Actively participate in code reviews, technical discussions, pair programming, and knowledge-sharing initiatives.

Senior Software Engineer – Personalisation

• Build and evolve AI-powered services using Python, supporting highly scalable customer-facing experiences.
• Design and implement evaluation frameworks that measure and improve the quality of AI and LLM-powered systems.
• Drive continuous improvement of AI Stylist through structured evaluation, experimentation, and data-driven insights.
• Apply advanced techniques such as LLM-as-a-Judge and other evaluation methodologies to assess recommendation and response quality.
• Work with non-deterministic AI systems, identifying opportunities to improve relevance, consistency, and customer outcomes.
• Integrate AI services into broader digital platforms, APIs, and recommendation ecosystems.

Senior Software Engineer – Recommendation Experiences

• Design, build, and evolve backend services that power pricing and promotions across multiple customer channels.
• Develop scalable microservices and APIs using Java/Kotlin for reliable pricing calculations and promotions management.
• Contribute to Kafka-based event-driven architectures for high-volume price publishing and promotional capabilities.
• Design and evolve GraphQL APIs ensuring consistency, performance, governance, and exceptional developer experience.
• Build resilient, low-latency solutions using MongoDB, Redis, PostgreSQL, and distributed data architectures.
• Own complex backend features across the pricing and promotions lifecycle from design through deployment and operational support.

Senior Software Engineer – Price Domain

• Design, build, and evolve order management capabilities that support seamless customer fulfilment journeys across checkout, fulfilment, returns, amendments, and cancellations.
• Own features end-to-end, taking responsibility for solution design, development, testing, deployment, and production support.
• Help shape the technical direction of the Order Management platform, driving improvements in architecture, integration patterns, automation, reliability, and security.
• Champion engineering excellence through clean, maintainable, and well-tested code, promoting best practices across teams.
• Drive operational excellence by designing systems with observability, monitoring, resilience, and supportability at their core.
• Use tools such as Dynatrace to improve platform visibility, monitoring, and alerting capabilities.
• Collaborate closely with Product Managers, Engineering teams, and Fulfilment stakeholders to solve complex business challenges and accelerate delivery outcomes.
• Support and mentor engineers through coaching, knowledge sharing, code reviews, and technical guidance.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of engineering standards, tooling, and ways of working across the wider organisation.

Senior Software Engineer – Order Fulfilment

• Design, build, and evolve payment services and capabilities that enable seamless customer transactions across M&S digital platforms.
• Develop resilient backend services, APIs, and integrations that support millions of customer payment journeys every year.
• Own features end-to-end, taking responsibility for solution design, development, testing, deployment, and production support.
• Help shape the technical direction of the Payments platform, balancing performance, scalability, resilience, security, and cost through modern engineering practices.
• Champion engineering excellence through clean, maintainable, and well-tested code, helping establish best practices across engineering teams.
• Drive operational excellence by designing systems with observability, monitoring, resilience, and supportability at their core.
• Utilise tools such as Dynatrace to improve platform visibility, monitoring, alerting, and service reliability.

Senior Software Engineer – Payment Capabilities

• **Key Responsibilities**These may change with the needs of the business, but the main areas are:
• **Technical Skills**• Design solutions to complex features and write the design documentation that other engineers build from.
• Hold the technical quality bar for your team through code review, pairing and the example you set.
• Spot gaps in testing, security or performance across your team's work, and fix them or make the case for fixing them.
• Work within the technical direction and standards set by your Lead Engineer and feedback into them where you see a better approach.
• Watch for scaling, reliability and operability problems before they cause incidents and help keep the team's work observable and secure.
• **Delivery**• Lead the delivery of large features, involving other engineers.
• Turn vague or unclear requirements into concrete engineering work the team can pick up.
• Keep the team's delivery standards up, and step in when they slip rather than waiting to be asked.
• Make sound decisions when the information is incomplete and keep work moving when requirements change or things get blocked.
• **Impact**• Make a real difference to your team's output, quality and technical ability.
• Help junior and mid engineers get better through pairing, honest feedback and giving them work that stretches them.
• Contribute to department-wide engineering standards and documentation.
• Help shape your team's goals and technical plans and connect the work back to what the business is trying to achieve.
• Take part in hiring, running technical interviews and giving well-reasoned assessments of candidates.
• **Communication**• Explain technical decisions clearly to both engineers and people without a technical background.
• Write things down well, such as designs, technical documentation and runbooks that other people can pick up and use.
• Help the team reach agreement on hard or contested technical questions.
• Give clear, specific and kind feedback in code reviews.
• Inform your Engineering Team Lead promptly when a piece of work is failing behind, rather than letting it surface late.
• **AI and Innovation **• Explore new tools, including AI, and help bring the genuinely useful tools into your team’s day-to-day work while being honest about where they fall short.
• Follow the team's agreed approach to AI-assisted work so that what gets produced stays consistent, secure and good quality.
• Use AI coding tools such as Claude in your day-to-day development, moving faster while keeping design quality, security and maintainability high.

Senior Engineer

• **Key Responsibilities**These may change with the needs of the business, but the main areas are:
• **Technical Direction**• Own the long-term technical strategy for a core domain of the platform and drive the architectural work needed to get there, not just the next feature.
• Produce the designs and reference architectures that other engineers build from with confidence and without rework.
• Set and own the technical standards for your domain and lead Senior Engineers in applying them consistently.
• Liaise with the Principal Engineers to keep your domain’s technical strategy, tooling and patterns aligned with the wider technical direction.
• Anticipate scaling, resilience, security and operability risks before they become incidents and drive best practice such as observability, security-by-design and robust testing.
• Track where the industry is heading and judge, proactively, what is worth bringing into our stack.
• **Delivery**• Own delivery outcomes for large, complex pieces of work and keeping momentum through ambiguity and changing requirements.
• Influence roadmap prioritisation based on technical risk, complexity and strategic value, not just delivery execution.
• Identify systemic delivery problems and drive structural fixes, rather than working around them.
• Make sound, defensible decisions with incomplete information and model the delivery discipline you expect of others.
• **Impact**• Raise the technical capability of Senior Engineers working within your domain through design leadership, review and pairing.
• Build standards, patterns and a culture of technical excellence that persist and compound after any single project ends.
• Have visible, structural impact beyond your immediate team, influencing how other teams work or what they build.
• Work with Engineering Management on department-level strategy and standards and shape the engineering hiring bar and team culture.
• **Communication and Influence**• Communicate technical strategy clearly to engineers, product, and business stakeholders.
• Produce written work such as design documentation, RFCs and proposals that shifts how the organisation thinks and drives alignment across teams.
• Influence other teams and resolve significant disagreements through reasoning and trust, without needing to escalate.
• Build an external technical profile through conferences, open source, or industry community, in ways that raise our reputation and help us attract talent.
• Encourage open technical discussion and build active engineering communities across our main communication channels.
• **AI and Innovation**• Trial new tools and technologies, including AI and embed the ones that help into how the team works day to day, while being honest about their limits.
• Set the standards for how the team uses AI, codifying our patterns and guardrails into the tooling itself so that AI-assisted work stays consistent, secure and high quality as it scales.
• Lead by example in day-to-day development with AI coding tools such as Claude, using them to move faster while holding the bar on design quality, security and maintainability.

Lead Engineer

• Write, test, and maintain code as part of a cross-functional delivery team
• Participate in code reviews, sprint planning, and daily stand-ups
• Work closely with senior engineers to learn best practices in software design, testing, and deployment
• Help troubleshoot and resolve bugs and technical issues
• Build strong working relationships with client stakeholders, communicating progress and gathering feedback throughout delivery
• Contribute to technical documentation
• Continuously build your skills through on-the-job learning, mentoring, and training

Software Engineer, Graduate

• Collaboration with physicists, opto-mechanical, mechanical, electrical and software engineers to lead the development of optical systems for quantum sensing and computing
• From source to atom: Lead and execute the process from requirements and design to assembly and test for optical systems spanning laser distribution, modulation, delivery and imaging.
• Work at the component level up through to large sub-systems containing hundreds of precisely aligned optical elements.
• Optimise, analyse and tolerance optical designs using computational methods.
• Use simulation tools to guide design decisions and communicate findings to project leaders both verbally and through design documentation.
• Lead the design review process for optical systems.
• Validate and characterise optical components and systems for performance, reliability, and stability by formulating and executing structured test plans.

Senior Optical Engineer

• Provide senior engineering leadership across major infrastructure programmes and projects
• Act as the accountable engineering authority for scope definition, design assurance and engineering risk management
• Lead multidisciplinary engineering teams across process, mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, control, automation and civil engineering disciplines
• Chair engineering governance forums including design reviews, technical approvals and assurance gateways
• Drive technically robust, cost-effective and low-carbon engineering solutions
• Lead technical assurance across optioneering, outline design, early contractor involvement, detailed design, construction, commissioning and handover
• Ensure compliance with Anglian Water engineering standards, Construction Design and Management regulations, process safety requirements and operational expectations
• Champion standardisation, value engineering, design efficiency and digital engineering across major projects
• Develop engineering capability across Anglian Water, partners and suppliers, including mentoring graduates, apprentices and emerging technical talent
• Provide senior technical leadership during incidents and emergency engineering responses where required

• Research, design, develop, test, maintain and support software products at the forefront of IoT Edge platform technology
• Develop software in a variety of languages including Go, Python and Typescript
• Work alongside a dedicated team of experienced, talented engineers

Graduate – Junior Software Engineer

• Develop software components throughout the component lifecycle from High-Level Software Requirements to component verification to achieve DO178 objectives for manually coded components
• Evaluate verification and test results, provide technical conclusions, and support defect investigation, resolution, and customer issue analysis
• Follow configuration management and change control practices
• Working in Agile environment to collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams to understand System Requirements and ensure effective component integration into the wider architecture
• Create technical documentation and reports to evidence design decisions, verification outcomes, and development activities
• Contribute, where required, to departmental capability growth including process improvement, knowledge sharing, tool development, training support, and long-term planning initiatives

Controls Software Engineer

• Set clear technical direction for your teams, keeping decisions aligned to team and product goals.
• Guide design and technical decisions and support a review culture that raises quality and teaches, rather than just approves.
• Spot technical debt early and work closely with your lead/senior engineers to ensure engineering standards are adopted across both teams.
• Plan and track delivery across both teams, raising risks and scope changes early.
• Break complex work into deliverable increments with clear dependencies and acceptance criteria.
• Run delivery sessions and workshops to shape and unblock work.
• Keep an eye on dependencies between your teams and with other teams and flag them early.
• Make sensible trade-offs on scope, quality and pace under pressure, and keep delivery moving.
• Balance the team’s time between product features and technical debt.
• Keep the team’s ways of working lean and adaptable, using process and meetings where they genuinely help rather than running them by default.
• Mentor and coach your engineers through guidance, review and honest career conversations.
• Run regular, structured one-to-ones focused on growth, wellbeing and clearing blockers.
• Give direct, evidence-based feedback and support each person’s development and progression.
• Interview and hire strong engineers into your teams.
• Build a strong team culture with high standards and psychological safety.
• Encourage the team to use AI where it clearly helps them work faster or produce better software, and to be honest about where it doesn’t.
• Make sensible use of AI and automation part of how the team works day to day, rather than something tried once and dropped.
• Use simple measures of how the team is doing to spot progress and catch work that’s slipping or running over.
• Communicate your teams’ technical decisions and trade-offs clearly to product and non-technical colleagues.
• Manage stakeholder expectations proactively, so status updates contain no surprises.
• Escalate issues to Engineering Management at the right time and in the right way, with options rather than problems.
• Communicate release content to customers and support their delivery questions, giving confidence in what’s coming and when.

Engineering Team Lead

• Execute process engineering activities in support of Terminal operations
• Work closely and build relationships with the Engineering and Operations Teams
• Supervise and check work of the wider Process Team as appropriate
• Ensure that design methods, standards and data used conform with Client's requirements and / or those issued by Wood
• Ensure a high standard of safety is achieved and Environmental and Quality Assurance procedures are followed
• Perform safety related calculations and provide input to HAZOP, SIL and other safety reviews as directed
• Custodian of the plant computer-based models, including HYSYS models and pipeline composition tracker.
• Carry out simulations to investigate operational issues, plant optimisation and new business evaluation
• Responsible for implementing Process Safety and Risk Management processes including KPIs and monthly reporting
• Follow Management of Change process, supporting and owning modifications as appropriate
• Lead or support technical and incident investigations as appropriate
• Review and update Engineering Procedures as required
• Prepare and check process calculations in accordance with Wood procedures
• Contribute where necessary to review of supplier quotations
• Participate in technical meetings and handle discussions with the client as required
• Review operating procedures and P&IDs
• Deputising for Process TA.

Senior Process Engineer

• You will own the technical direction and delivery of an initiative.
• You're an excellent product engineer who ships code alongside your team — expect to spend 50–60% of your time in code.
• This is not a management role. You write production code, review PRs, make architecture calls, and set the engineering standard your team rallies around. Your leadership is rooted in technical credibility and active presence in the codebase.
• You run 1:1s with engineers on your initiative — focused on the work: delivery, unblocking, and direction. You're involved in hiring because you define how your initiative is staffed: deciding who you need and joining interview loops.
• Your unit of ownership: the technical quality, velocity, and direction of your initiative.
• Where the line is: career growth, performance management, and the development of engineers sit with the Engineering Manager — not with the Tech Lead. Candidates should be clear on this distinction before applying.
• You'll lead one of these initiatives in a growing product team scaling into multiple initiatives.

Tech Lead

• Architect, document, build, and maintain scalable applications using Python and React
• Contribute to solutions from design through to delivery and support
• Develop applications, including Progressive Web Apps, using React, Flask, and Python
• Build and integrate REST APIs and contribute to event-driven services
• Troubleshoot issues to resolution across aircraft mission and business systems
• Deliver changes regularly and communicate progress clearly within the team
• Write and maintain clear documentation to support colleagues, and the customer experience
• Work within multi-disciplinary team, contributing to customer and regulatory requirements

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Tech Strategy & Innovation Lead – Life Insurance and Retirement

Engineering Lead

Senior Interface Engineer

Staff Software Engineer – Self Checkouts

Senior Software Engineer – Personalisation

Senior Software Engineer – Recommendation Experiences

Senior Software Engineer – Price Domain

Senior Software Engineer – Order Fulfilment

Senior Software Engineer – Payment Capabilities

Senior Engineer

Lead Engineer

Software Engineer, Graduate

Senior Optical Engineer

Engineering Lead

Graduate – Junior Software Engineer

Controls Software Engineer

Engineering Team Lead

Senior Process Engineer

Tech Lead

Software Developer