Why join us
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.
About the Team
You'll be leading high-performing iOS and Android engineering teams utilising Swift and Kotlin to build and maintain our core mobile apps for Sainsbury's and Argos. These apps serve as our key customer touchpoints, offering a seamless experience for browsing products, managing accounts, and making purchases.
What you'll do
* You will play a vital role in leading and enabling the delivery of solutions that create value, drive efficiency, and increase performance for the business.
* You will line manage and guide a multi-skilled mobile apps engineering team, ensuring they have the necessary resources and skills to deliver end-to-end technical solutions for products.
* Your responsibilities include mentoring and coaching your team members, recruiting diverse and talented individuals, and promoting a culture of collaboration, learning, and respect.
* You will work closely with Product Managers and Engineers to define the vision and technical direction of the products, as well as manage multiple deliveries and take end-to-end ownership of your products, including change management and service management.
* Driving the development of new features, promoting best engineering practises, and advocating for agile / lean delivery methodologies are also essential aspects of your role.
* Additionally, you will manage initiative-level budgets, ensure adherence to processes and standards, and demonstrate positive attitudes and behaviours that contribute to a culture of excellence and inclusivity.
Who you are
* You are a passionate and experienced leader with a deep understanding of mobile engineering practises and a talent for coaching and developing teams.
* With a hands-on approach, you lead by example and inspire your colleagues, fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.
* Your technical expertise combined with your ability to prioritise and manage multiple deliveries, enables you to drive the successful development and delivery of complex mobile applications.
* You excel in making well-informed technical decisions and implementing best practises, while also managing Capex and Opex responsibilities.
* With your strong leadership and communication skills, you build strong relationships at all levels and contribute to the inclusive and diverse culture that Sainsbury's Tech values.
Essential Criteria
* Technical Development Background – Previous hands-on experience in software engineering with a solid understanding of mobile development principles, though currently in a non-coding leadership role.
* Proven Leadership of Mobile Engineering Teams – Successful track record managing native mobile developers (iOS/Android), with experience building high-performing teams, mentoring engineers, and driving technical excellence.
* Experience Scaling Mobile Applications – Background delivering consumer-facing mobile apps with significant user bases, understanding performance optimization, app store processes, and mobile-specific challenges.
* Engineering Management Expertise – Proven ability to handle standard EM responsibilities including team planning, performance management, goal-setting, conduct 121's, technical roadmap development, and engineering process improvement.
* Excellent Cross-Functional Partnership – Strong collaboration skills working with product managers, designers, QA, and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions and delivery timelines.
Benefits and Diversity
We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer, so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. We support development and offer flexible working. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and offer a range of benefits. Starting with colleague discount, you’ll get 10% off at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat after 4 weeks, increasing to 15% off at Sainsbury’s on Fridays and Saturdays and 15% off at Argos on paydays. Our pensions scheme and life cover are provided, and you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 20% of salary depending on performance.
Your wellbeing matters. You will have an annual holiday allowance with the option to buy additional holiday, plus benefits such as season ticket loans, an interest-free car loan up to £10k, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, pay advances, and access to private healthcare. We also offer an Employee Assistance Programme and other retailer discounts.
We provide substantial leave: up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave. For more details about benefits, please see www.sainsburys.jobs (length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).
Responsibilities
We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. Think about the scale it takes for us to feed the nation. The level of data, transactions and variety it involves. We’ve made serious investment into a Tech Academy and into setting standards and principles. We iterate, learn, experiment and push ways of working such as Agile, Scrum and XP. So you can look forward to awesome opportunities in everything from AI to reusable tech.
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