Lead Platform Engineer
Summary
As part of the M&S Enterprise Data team, you’ll be joining a well-loved historic brand, working on solutions that serves millions of loyal customers and thousands of colleagues. With ethical values that run right through the company’s core and technology leaders that truly understand the value in the role of Senior Engineer, it’s an exciting time as we’re transforming into a digital first and data-led organisation, with the quality in our Data Technology team being a key differentiator.
We are seeking a passionate Engineer who will provide technical expertise, supports application lifecycles, and operate with excellence. Being creative, curious, and confident, you will be an integral part of our empowered, autonomous, cross-disciplinary engineering teams and will pay a key role in design, develop, and maintaining robust scalable data solutions on Microsoft Azure. Your expertise in cloud-based technologies and data management will be instrumental in optimising data workflows and ensure high data availability and reliability
You will play a vital role in driving data-driven decision-making and shaping the organisations data infrastructure for future growth and success. Your passion for innovative technologies, attention to detail and commitment to data excellence will be key in delivering high quality data solutions.
To stay close to customers, our support teams are in the office three days a week as we believe that skills are developed through collaboration, and that spending time together makes us more creative and connected.
What's in it for you
Being a part of M&S is exactly that – playing your part to bring the magic of M&S to our customers every day. We’re an inclusive, dynamic, exciting, and ever evolving business built on doing the right thing and bringing exceptional quality, value, service to every customer, whenever, wherever and however they want to shop with us.
Here are some of the benefits we offer that make working for M&S just that little bit more special…
- After completing your probationary period, you’ll receive 20% colleague discount across all M&S products and many of our third-party brands for you and a member of your household.
- Competitive holiday entitlement with the potential to buy extra holiday days!
- Discretionary bonus schemes awarded based on how you achieve your personal objectives and our performance as a business.
- A generous Defined Contribution Pension Scheme and Life Assurance.
- A dedicated welcome to our teams with a tailored induction and a wide range of training programmes to develop your skills.
- Amazing perks and discounts via our M&S Choices portal to maximise your financial and personal wellbeing.
- Industry-leading parental, adoption and neonatal policies, providing support and flexibility for your family.
- Access to a fantastic range of wellbeing support for all colleagues including access to our 24/7 Virtual GP and PAM Assist to support you and your family.
- A charity volunteer day to support a charity or cause you're passionate about through a dedicated day away from work.
What you'll do
- Design and implement scalable, reliable, secure data platform infrastructure using Azure Services
- Monitor and optimise performance of compute, storage solutions across the overall platform
- Implement and be responsible for CI/CD deployments for data infrastructure and deployments
- Respond to and resolve incidents related to the data platform
- Monitor and be responsible for the cost of Azure resources and drive optimisation opportunities
- Continuously evaluate and adopt new tools and technologies to improve the data platform
- Collaborate with multi-functional teams to integrate data solutions with other business systems and applications
Who you are
- Articulable knowledge of Azure services, such as Data Lake Storage, Azure Compute, Azure Databricks
- Demonstrable experience with DevOps practices, such as Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or GitHub Actions for Infrastructure Automation
- Understanding of security best practices in Azure, identity and access management, network security, and encryption
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to solve issues and optimise data solutions
- Excellent collaboration skills to work effectively with multi-functional teams
- Ability to manage multiple tasks and projects simultaneously and prioritise accordingly
- Curious and can actively seek out new ways to enhance the data platform, stay informed of industry trends, and experiment with innovative solutions
Everyone's welcome
We are ambitious about the future of retail. We’re disrupting, innovating and leading the industry into a more conscientious, inspiring digital era. We’re transforming how we work together and offering our most exciting opportunities yet. Marks & Spencer strives to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers and suppliers. Join us and make change happen.
We are committed to building diverse and representative teams, where everyone can bring their whole selves to work and be at their best. We support each other and work together to win together.
If you feel you'd benefit from any support or reasonable adjustments during any stage of the recruitment process, please don’t hesitate to let us know when completing your application. This information will be picked up by our team, so we can try and put steps in place to help you be at your best through this process.
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