Software Development Manager

As a Software Development Manager within Customer Fulfilment Technology team; your primary responsibility would be to build and maintain a passionate; engaged and effective development team of engineers. You do this through taking a deep interest in the people that report to you; making sure they are happy; motivated and challenged in what they are doing. You guide them to reach pragmatic technical solutions and keep yourself close to the code without becoming a blocker. You take ownership when things go wrong but celebrate success collectively.

Specifically; you will:

- Foster the careers of the engineers reporting into you by finding opportunity for growth; coaching; addressing concerns and if necessary; implementing performance management.
- Grow the capability of Tesco Technology by becoming involved in our engineering hiring and being passionate about building high performing and diverse teams.
- Work closely with Product Management to identify and minimise risk within an outcome and help prioritise and evolve a workable technical solution ready for delivery.
- Represent Customer Fulfilment technology team within the wider technical discussions across different stakeholder groups; constantly broadening your understanding of our technology landscape to increase the effectiveness of your contribution.
- Take ownership for the delivery of specific outcomes; or work across wider groups in conjunction with programme management to deliver more significant outcomes.
- Take ownership of non-functional outcomes of Customer Fulfilment Components (e.g.FPS) capabilities and features; including performance; availability; reliability and security.
- Continually look for means to evolve and improve our technology; processes and practices.

Experience relevant for this job:
Previous experience with management of software engineering teams of around 5+ people in size.
Previous experience of having managed product development using agile methodologies
Hands-on experience of building and supporting reliable and operationally robust full stack and distributed Java applications / products
Any previous experience of having managed a globally distributed software engineering teams would be a big plus.

Skills relevant for the job:
A high degree of emotional intelligence. You are aware of your own emotions; how you appear and can self-reflect on your actions. You can empathise with others and modify your behaviour and style accordingly.
Problem solving; analysis and computational skills. You are comfortable designing systems and reasoning about them. When tackling problems; you take a thorough and logical approach to solving them and retaining ownership through to resolution.