About the Role
While you’ll have heard our name, there’s a lot you probably don’t know about NEXT. Like how we create most of our systems ourselves – whether it’s a website, mobile app or application. What’s more, we’re growing. Fast. And it’s the kind of growth and investment that is exciting for everyone in our business.
Our huge warehouse estate in Yorkshire is held together by the Warehouse team, which uses a lot of technology to receive, store, pick and pack items for our customers – handling everything from socks to sofas. The Warehouse team focuses heavily on automation, including 40 miles of conveyor linking sites, hundreds of storage and picking robots, and a fast-moving, continuously changing part of NEXT Technology.
Technology drives what we do. As we’re going through a huge change as a business, we need a solid team with us who are committed to driving our systems forward. You’ll be an important part of this. Your focus will be on developing and supporting systems that ensure our Warehouse & Distribution operation remains unrivalled. You will be working within our Packing Team, who currently work in a distributed microservice architecture, developing and supporting code in around 20+ services. These services communicate in a loosely coupled fashion using Azure Service Bus, operational data is stored in Azure Cosmos DB, and aggregations for reporting and unique business requirements are stored in Azure SQL Server.
The packing team develops NuGet packages for commonly reused code and all our services follow domain-driven design and are structured in line with the clean/onion architecture, aiming to abstract away dependencies and make the code easier to maintain and change. The packing team also contributes to open source projects used in many of our services. The team hosts the majority of their services in AKS, with a few services running in Azure App Service & Azure Functions. They are also keen on observability, exploring cutting-edge monitoring solutions using OpenTelemetry.
We also have a number of older applications for packing functions across different warehouse sites. Over time, our intention is to bring these into the same architecture as our newer packing application. You’ll help provide development support to internal users, as well as offering occasional out-of-hours cover. You’ll also use your expertise and experience to help us continually improve our processes and working practices, actively enabling the department to become as efficient and effective as it can be.
You’ll be carrying out these activities from our South Elmsall Warehouse Complex, in a fast-paced, encouraging and supportive environment where everyone contributes to delivering for our customers and their own careers. Bring your energy. Play to your strengths. Make things bigger and better than before. Let’s Take It On.
About you
Technical requirements:
* .NET 9 / 10
* Blazor
* Azure Service Bus
* Azure Cosmos DB and SQL Server
* Kubernetes
* Docker
* Terraform
* Bicep
* Open Telemetry
If you’re an expert in this field, have strong communication skills and considerable C#/.NET knowledge, work with initiative and can build great working relationships within the business, this is the place for you – and your career.
About Us
You know NEXT, but did you know we’re a FTSE-100 retail company employing over 35,000 people across the UK and Ireland. We’re the UK’s 2nd largest fashion retailer and for Kidswear we’re the market leader. We have over 500 stores, plus NEXT Online, and it’s now possible to buy online from over 70 countries around the world!
About The Team
* 25% off most NEXT, MADE*, Lipsy*, Gap* and Victoria's Secret* products (*when purchased through NEXT)
* Company performance based bonus
* Sharesave scheme
* On-site Nursery available; OFSTED outstanding in all areas
* 10% off most partner brands & up to 15% off Branded Beauty
* Early VIP access to sale stock
* Access to excellent discounts at Staff Shops
* Restaurants with great food at amazing prices
* Access a digital GP and other free health and wellbeing services
* Free on-site parking
* Financial Wellbeing - Save, track and enhance your financial wellbeing
* Apprenticeship - Grow and develop on the job whilst gaining a qualification
* Direct to Work - Discount online and in-store; collect items the next day from your place of work or local store
* Support Networks - Access to Network Groups to empower and celebrate each other
* Wellhub - Discounted flexible monthly gym memberships, with apps, PT sessions and more
Conditions apply to all benefits. These benefits are discretionary and subject to change.
We aim to support all candidates during the application process and are happy to provide workplace adjustments when necessary. Should you need support with your application due to a disability or long-term condition, please contact us by email headoffice_careers@next.co.uk (include "Workplace Adjustments" in the subject line), or call 0116 284 2486 and leave a voicemail.
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