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Engineering Manager
Because we strive to put people first. Culture, our way. Technology at Primark
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What You’ll Do as an Engineering Manager
In your role, you’ll collaborate with different people across a range of skillsets. Here’s a flavour of your day-to-day:
- Lead and promote Primark Ways of Working across engineering teams, ensuring high delivery and quality standards.
- Oversee the end-to-end engineering lifecycle — including design, development, testing, deployment, and production release (including AIS).
- Govern software quality, security, and service transition standards while driving improvements in MTTR, change failure rate, deployment lead time, and technical debt reduction.
- Manage engineering demand and capacity, act as the key escalation point for Product and Delivery, and ensure operational work (defects, tech debt, risk) is accurately represented in backlogs.
- Drive a culture of stability, security, compliance, collaboration, automation, and continuous improvement, while optimising engineering costs and managing third-party performance.
- Define and maintain monitoring standards, DoR/DoD, ensure audit readiness, leverage shared technology services, explore innovation, and participate in the on-call rota.
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What You’ll Get
People are at the heart of what we do here, so it’s essential we provide you with the right environment to perform at your very best.
Let’s talk lifestyle: Healthcare, pension, and potential bonus. 27 days of leave, plus bank holidays and if you want, you can buy 5 more. Because Primark is all about tailoring to you, we offer Tax Saver Tickets, fitness centre, and a subsidised cafeteria.
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What You’ll Bring
Here at Primark, we want everyone to feel valued – so please bring your authentic self to work, of course with some other key experience and abilities for this role in particular:
- Over 10 year’s experience in software engineering delivery or enterprise-level IT transformation, ideally within a scaled agile environment.
- Proven ability to own and manage senior business stakeholder relationships effectively.
- Degree or equivalent qualification/experience relevant to technology, engineering, or delivery leadership.
- Strong communication, presentation, and facilitation skills, combined with high-level people management and project delivery expertise.
- Experience working with vendors and systems integrators across complex delivery landscapes.
- Knowledge of MACH architecture, and familiarity with SaaS and PaaS platforms (desirable).
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Does this sound like you? Great, because we can’t wait to see what you’ll bring. You’ll be supported within a team of equally capable people, celebrating who you are and aiding you reach your potential. At Primark, we’re excited about our future - and we’re excited to develop yours.
About Primark
At Primark, people matter. They’re the beating heart of our business and the reason we’ve grown from our first store in Dublin in 1969 to a £9bn+ turnover business and over 80,000 colleagues and over 440 stores in 17 countries today. Our values run through everything we do. In essence, we're Caring and always strive to put people first. We're also Dynamic, bravely pushing the boundaries to stay ahead. And finally, we succeed Together.
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