About the team

Joining Sainsbury's Tech means becoming part of an inclusive and driven team that is passionate about creating innovative solutions. As an Engineering Manager, you will play a pivotal role in leading and coaching talented engineering teams, driving the delivery of impactful solutions that drive efficiency and enhance performance across the business. With a focus on continuous improvement, you will have the opportunity to shape a world-class engineering function and contribute to the development of cutting-edge processes and technologies. At Sainsbury's, we value collaboration, diversity, and inclusivity, and offer a supportive and inspiring environment where you can make a purposeful contribution. Join us to be a part of an organisation that fosters technical excellence and embraces the power of diversity to shape the technology landscape of a leading UK retailer.

The Store Operations domain deals with huge amounts of operational data supporting our retail business. This role will ensure seamless data flow between systems, applications, and platforms, enabling accurate and timely data availability for business operations and decision-making, having significant opportunity to shape the team.

What you'll do

In your role, you will lead a multi-skilled engineering team to deliver innovative and high-performing solutions that create value and drive efficiency for our business.  With end-to-end product ownership, you will oversee change and run activities while owning the entire technology lifecycle, including service management. Develop and execute a comprehensive data integration strategy aligned with business goals. Identify opportunities to streamline data processes and improve data accessibility across the domain. Enforce data governance policies to ensure data accuracy, consistency, and security. Work closely with the central data team, data science, and business teams to understand data requirements and deliver effective integration solutions. Evaluate and recommend data integration tools, platforms, and technologies to enhance efficiency and scalability. Stay updated on industry trends and emerging technologies in data integration. Your responsibilities will include recruiting and retaining a talented team, mentoring and coaching colleagues, shaping a world-class engineering function, and ensuring the team possesses the right skills for product development.  Additionally, you will contribute to defining the technical direction and vision, fostering communities of practice, advocating and embedding agile/lean delivery methodologies, managing initiative budgets, and overseeing service support and SLAs.  Your role will involve managing people and product financial data, meeting targets, providing accurate reporting, and seeking value realisation opportunities.  Overall, you will lead by example and inspire your team, continuously striving for improvement and delivering impactful solutions while maintaining attention to detail and effectively managing resources.

Who you are

You are an experienced and passionate leader with a deep understanding of the critical role that data plays in a retailer's success. An understanding of ETL tools (e.g., Informatica, Talend, SSIS) and data integration platforms. A strong knowledge of SQL, databases (e.g., SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL), and data warehousing concepts. Experience with API integration, middleware, and cloud-based data solutions (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud). With your technical expertise and end-to-end ownership mindset, you can drive the delivery of innovative solutions that create value, increase efficiency, and enhance our business's performance.  You understand how to recruit, retain, and motivate teams, have excellent interpersonal skills, and are committed to fostering a collaborative and inclusive culture.  You bring cutting-edge processes and technologies to the table, always looking to enhance our engineering practises and driving the adoption of agile/lean delivery methodologies. With your hands-on experience in languages, tools, and infrastructure, you lead by example, inspire your teams, and ensure successful delivery of large-scale platforms. Your attention to detail, strategic mindset, and financial acumen to enable you to manage budgets and optimise value realisation while always prioritising the needs of our customers and continuously improving our engineering capabilities.isation, while always prioritising the needs of our customers and the continuous improvement of our engineering capabilities.