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Senior AWS Platform Engineer - Appvia - Active Security Clearance required. Location: London, UK About Us At Appvia, we're committed to helping our customers navigate their journey to Cloud and DevOps maturity. As a leading provider in the industry, we offer cutting-edge technologies and services to support our clients' cloud adoption journey. Our mission is to enable every company to deliver apps in the cloud. We dedicate ourselves to building a cloud infrastructure layer that allows platform engineering teams to manage, monitor and update with ease - at the same time, offering devs the flexibility to deploy their apps in the cloud without a hassle. We are passionate about driving value to our clients and have a desire to make their organisation succeed. About the Role As a Senior AWS Platform Engineer and Cloud Consultant, you will play a crucial role in guiding our customers on their journey to cloud and DevOps maturity. Leveraging your expertise in cloud technologies and best practices, you will work closely with clients to architect, implement, and optimise solutions tailored to their unique needs. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive innovation and deliver exceptional value to our customers. Interview Process - 3 stage Initial conversation with our Talent Acquisition Manager Technical Interview with the Hiring Manager Leadership Final Interview Important You must hold active UK Security Clearance to be eligible for this role. About You You'll be passionate about new technology and automation, and experienced in being part of an Engineering Team and Agile and DevOps best practices. You'll also be able to talk to us about your: Knowledge of continuous integration and deployment practices Ability to collaborate with people of all levels of technical ability Understanding of industry best practices Project Management experience Fantastic people skills, including the ability to motivate a team towards a common goal Responsibilities Collaborate with clients to assess their current infrastructure, identify opportunities for improvement, and develop tailored cloud and DevOps strategies. Design and implement scalable, resilient, and secure cloud-native solutions leveraging industry best practices and cutting-edge technologies. Develop pipelines to deploy code all the way to production with Terraform, using GitHub Actions. Manage new demand for platform and application onboarding. Assist application development teams to architect their applications to be cloud native, or help them transform existing applications to cloud native where possible. Implement monitoring and alerting. Improve security posture of applications being migrated. Create secure deployment patterns and templates/modules for application development teams to reuse. Gather requirements for building and maintaining a centralised platform for product teams to iterate on their applications in AWS. Set best practices and policies, especially around microservice architecture. Develop, maintain and operate complex operational tooling (e.g., Kubernetes, Opensearch, Prometheus, Grafana, Github or equivalent alternative technologies). Assess customer technical capabilities and upskill for reduced friction and increased platform adoption. Enhance operational reliability and scalability of existing products. POC new ideas and products, balancing trade-offs between technical, analytical and product needs. Streamline operational tasks through engineering and automation. Improve operational visibility around core products such as tracking technologies, improved metrics etc. Implement integrations between components to improve the team's way of working. Improve knowledge amongst the team through code reviews, documentation, technical guidance and mentoring. Reduce the number of DevOps resources in projects by enabling developers to be more self-service. Skills Platform Engineering: Proficiency in designing and implementing scalable, resilient, and secure cloud platforms. Automation: Experience with infrastructure-as-code (IaC) practices, automation tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible) and scripting languages (e.g., Python, Ruby). Container Orchestration: Knowledge of container orchestration platforms (e.g., Kubernetes) and their managed counterparts (e.g., EKS, AKS, GKE). Public Cloud Expertise: Understanding of cloud services, architecture, and best practices in one or more major public cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP). DevOps Practices: Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines, version control systems, and containerisation technologies (e.g., Docker). Experience Project Leadership: Demonstrated experience delivering cloud migration, optimisation, or transformation projects. Client-Facing Experience: Proven track record of engaging with clients, understanding their requirements, and delivering solutions that exceed expectations. Team Collaboration: Ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams, communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders, and drive consensus. Continuous Learning: Commitment to staying abreast of industry trends, participating in professional development activities, and obtaining relevant certifications. Qualifications Certification in relevant cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP) at an associate level is highly desirable, e.g.: AWS Certified: Solutions Architect Associate AWS Certified: Solutions Architect Professional Certification in Kubernetes administration is desirable: Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKSS) Why Join Appvia? We are a self-funded, London based startup; providing businesses with a fast and secure way to deploy containerised applications into the cloud. We are on a mission to enable organisations to make cloud-based software delivery simple and efficient, whilst having insights into costs, security and cadence. As a company that holds customers at the heart of everything we do, we are looking for candidates that want to make a real change to how Dev and Ops is working in the industry. With us, our customers, like the UK's Home Office & Bank of England, are harnessing cloud-native technologies, limiting the challenges of infrastructure management and rapidly delivering digital products. What's on Offer? Work-life balance: Flexible working with core hours of 10-4pm because we know life happens outside of work. Hybrid working - only one compulsory office day per month. 25 days' holiday a year, plus bank holidays. An additional day off for your birthday. For your Well-being: Full Private Healthcare cover for you with partners and children covered 50%. Death in Service. Cycle to Work scheme. Electric Car Scheme. Pension plus a salary sacrifice option for even greater savings. Employee Assistance Programme. Enhanced maternity and paternity to full pay. Mental Health Support: Free therapy through AXA. Access to the Headspace App. Trained Mental Health First Aiders. Other Fun Perks: Learning budget of £1,000 a year. Your own MacBook Pro while you work at Appvia. Dog friendly office. Wear what makes you comfortable. Free snacks in the office. Pool table & ping pong table. Regular team socials, board game nights, industry meetups and more! But don't just take our word for it; you can check out what our Appvians say about us on Glassdoor and by following us on LinkedIn, Twitter and TikTok. We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and actively encourage, respect, and recognise diversity of thought and background throughout the business. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, or veteran, neurodiversity, and disability status. Note: While all roles are active and approved at the time of posting, the dynamic nature of our start-up means some applications may be processed to pipeline talent for future opportunities rather than current openings. We will strive to keep you informed of any changes to the status of your application.
Senior AWS Platform Engineer - Appvia - Active Security Clearance required. Location: London, UK About Us At Appvia, we're committed to helping our customers navigate their journey to Cloud and DevOps maturity. As a leading provider in the industry, we offer cutting-edge technologies and services to support our clients' cloud adoption journey. Our mission is to enable every company to deliver apps in the cloud. We dedicate ourselves to building a cloud infrastructure layer that allows platform engineering teams to manage, monitor and update with ease - at the same time, offering devs the flexibility to deploy their apps in the cloud without a hassle. We are passionate about driving value to our clients and have a desire to make their organisation succeed. About the Role As a Senior AWS Platform Engineer and Cloud Consultant, you will play a crucial role in guiding our customers on their journey to cloud and DevOps maturity. Leveraging your expertise in cloud technologies and best practices, you will work closely with clients to architect, implement, and optimise solutions tailored to their unique needs. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive innovation and deliver exceptional value to our customers. Interview Process - 3 stage Initial conversation with our Talent Acquisition Manager Technical Interview with the Hiring Manager Leadership Final Interview Important You must hold active UK Security Clearance to be eligible for this role. About You You'll be passionate about new technology and automation, and experienced in being part of an Engineering Team and Agile and DevOps best practices. You'll also be able to talk to us about your: Knowledge of continuous integration and deployment practices Ability to collaborate with people of all levels of technical ability Understanding of industry best practices Project Management experience Fantastic people skills, including the ability to motivate a team towards a common goal Responsibilities Collaborate with clients to assess their current infrastructure, identify opportunities for improvement, and develop tailored cloud and DevOps strategies. Design and implement scalable, resilient, and secure cloud-native solutions leveraging industry best practices and cutting-edge technologies. Develop pipelines to deploy code all the way to production with Terraform, using GitHub Actions. Manage new demand for platform and application onboarding. Assist application development teams to architect their applications to be cloud native, or help them transform existing applications to cloud native where possible. Implement monitoring and alerting. Improve security posture of applications being migrated. Create secure deployment patterns and templates/modules for application development teams to reuse. Gather requirements for building and maintaining a centralised platform for product teams to iterate on their applications in AWS. Set best practices and policies, especially around microservice architecture. Develop, maintain and operate complex operational tooling (e.g., Kubernetes, Opensearch, Prometheus, Grafana, Github or equivalent alternative technologies). Assess customer technical capabilities and upskill for reduced friction and increased platform adoption. Enhance operational reliability and scalability of existing products. POC new ideas and products, balancing trade-offs between technical, analytical and product needs. Streamline operational tasks through engineering and automation. Improve operational visibility around core products such as tracking technologies, improved metrics etc. Implement integrations between components to improve the team's way of working. Improve knowledge amongst the team through code reviews, documentation, technical guidance and mentoring. Reduce the number of DevOps resources in projects by enabling developers to be more self-service. Skills Platform Engineering: Proficiency in designing and implementing scalable, resilient, and secure cloud platforms. Automation: Experience with infrastructure-as-code (IaC) practices, automation tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible) and scripting languages (e.g., Python, Ruby). Container Orchestration: Knowledge of container orchestration platforms (e.g., Kubernetes) and their managed counterparts (e.g., EKS, AKS, GKE). Public Cloud Expertise: Understanding of cloud services, architecture, and best practices in one or more major public cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP). DevOps Practices: Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines, version control systems, and containerisation technologies (e.g., Docker). Experience Project Leadership: Demonstrated experience delivering cloud migration, optimisation, or transformation projects. Client-Facing Experience: Proven track record of engaging with clients, understanding their requirements, and delivering solutions that exceed expectations. Team Collaboration: Ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams, communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders, and drive consensus. Continuous Learning: Commitment to staying abreast of industry trends, participating in professional development activities, and obtaining relevant certifications. Qualifications Certification in relevant cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP) at an associate level is highly desirable, e.g.: AWS Certified: Solutions Architect Associate AWS Certified: Solutions Architect Professional Certification in Kubernetes administration is desirable: Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKSS) Why Join Appvia? We are a self-funded, London based startup; providing businesses with a fast and secure way to deploy containerised applications into the cloud. We are on a mission to enable organisations to make cloud-based software delivery simple and efficient, whilst having insights into costs, security and cadence. As a company that holds customers at the heart of everything we do, we are looking for candidates that want to make a real change to how Dev and Ops is working in the industry. With us, our customers, like the UK's Home Office & Bank of England, are harnessing cloud-native technologies, limiting the challenges of infrastructure management and rapidly delivering digital products. What's on Offer? Work-life balance: Flexible working with core hours of 10-4pm because we know life happens outside of work. Hybrid working - only one compulsory office day per month. 25 days' holiday a year, plus bank holidays. An additional day off for your birthday. For your Well-being: Full Private Healthcare cover for you with partners and children covered 50%. Death in Service. Cycle to Work scheme. Electric Car Scheme. Pension plus a salary sacrifice option for even greater savings. Employee Assistance Programme. Enhanced maternity and paternity to full pay. Mental Health Support: Free therapy through AXA. Access to the Headspace App. Trained Mental Health First Aiders. Other Fun Perks: Learning budget of £1,000 a year. Your own MacBook Pro while you work at Appvia. Dog friendly office. Wear what makes you comfortable. Free snacks in the office. Pool table & ping pong table. Regular team socials, board game nights, industry meetups and more! But don't just take our word for it; you can check out what our Appvians say about us on Glassdoor and by following us on LinkedIn, Twitter and TikTok. We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and actively encourage, respect, and recognise diversity of thought and background throughout the business. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, or veteran, neurodiversity, and disability status. Note: While all roles are active and approved at the time of posting, the dynamic nature of our start-up means some applications may be processed to pipeline talent for future opportunities rather than current openings. We will strive to keep you informed of any changes to the status of your application.
Citigroup Inc.
Job description: XiP is building a next-generation cross-asset calculation system for Citi trading desks and enterprise users in the largest global financial markets and exchanges in New York, London, and other major financial hubs. Our team owns multiple Java Spring Boot Services that execute, partition, and track quantitative risk graphs/trades in a distributed environment. These graphs can fail due to their complexity and our system must adapt quickly to these failures to provide a seamless experience for clients. XiP Compute Services are deployed onto OpenShift and Amazon's Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). An important initiative in 2025 will be onboarding Google's Kubernetes Engine to further expand our coverage. Our system scales on-demand, and we can run up to tens of thousands of replicas of our services across all asset classes. The role of the Senior Technical Lead is to lead a variety of engineering activities including design decisions regarding technical direction of the platform with short, medium, and long-term changes, with a key focus on public cloud onboarding. The project requires constant review of the technologies, patterns and paradigms used to ensure the system is easy to understand, performant, scalable, testable, robust, and observable. The role is a conjunction of technical and managerial roles, with line-management duties, while giving technical direction to a growing team of developers globally. The platform is a Greenfield build using standard modern technologies such as Java, Spring Boot, Kubernetes, Kafka, MongoDB, RabbitMQ, Solace, Apache Ignite. The platform runs in a hybrid mode both on-premise and in AWS utilizing technologies such as EKS, S3, FSX. The main purpose of this role is to lead efforts of continued platform onboarding to AWS as well as the new initiative to deploy into GCP. The project is in a scale-out phase, with a goal of expanding the user base and workloads towards running billions of financial calculations per day across hundreds of thousands of cores. The aim of the project is to run all finance calculations for Citi's Front Office Markets business globally. Responsibilities: Steering platform onboarding into AWS and Google Cloud, while collaborating with Citi HPC team and AWS/Google partners. Challenging proposed and provided solutions in terms of performance, robustness and cost effectiveness. Making decisions regarding technical direction of platform, including evaluating new technologies and executing proof-of-concept implementations, with good understanding of various limitations. Identifying and defining necessary system enhancements to improve current processes and architecture. Hands-on coding of fixes, features, and improvements. Investigating reported or observed platform issues. Reviewing pull-requests from other team members and giving robust critique/feedback. Identifying and proposing teamwork enhancements. Reviewing requests for new features, balancing user requirements with defending the platform from complexity and low-value features. Collaborating with key partners across the firm for extending the platform, such as: the infrastructure provider group; quant group; upstream and downstream systems. Mentoring/coaching junior developers on coding/architecture approaches and best practices. Skills and Experience: Expert knowledge of distributed systems including event-driven architecture; at-least-once messaging; CAP Theorem; horizontal and vertical scaling strategies; massively distributed architectures. Expert knowledge of Java, JVM, memory management, garbage collection. Thorough understanding of multithreaded environment challenges. Expert knowledge of Spring, SpringBoot framework and associated technologies. Expert knowledge of test frameworks, such as Junit, Mockito, writing easily-testable code. Expertise in Java debugging, including remote debugging of services deployed to K8s. Expert knowledge of Kubernetes and associated technologies such as KEDA, Karpenter, ClusterAutoscaler, CoreDNS. Expert knowledge of SQL and/or NoSQL database technologies. Expert knowledge of various messaging protocols and technologies such as REST, HTTP/S, AMQP, WebSocket. Expert knowledge of Confluent Kafka. Experience and good understanding of core technologies provided by GCP/AWS, such as S3, FSX, EKS, SQS, SNS, Kinesis, AmazonMQ, DynamoDB, GKE, CloudStorage, PubSub, Filestore. Knowledge of modern observability technologies such as ELK, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, Micrometer. "What-if" thinking, while designing or reviewing solutions, to foresee or catch potential problems as early in the development process, as only possible. Nice to have: Good knowledge of Python, Groovy, Bash. C++ basic knowledge/experience. Good knowledge of PubSub model. Good knowledge of Finance, especially large-scale risk calculation. Good knowledge of representing complex calculations as graphs of instructions which can be horizontally distributed. Job Family Group: Technology Job Family: Applications Development Time Type: Full time Citi is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran. Citigroup Inc. and its subsidiaries ("Citi") invite all qualified interested applicants to apply for career opportunities. If you are a person with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation to use our search tools and/or apply for a career opportunity review Accessibility at Citi . View the " EEO is the Law " poster. View the EEO is the Law Supplement . View the EEO Policy Statement . View the Pay Transparency Posting .
Job description: XiP is building a next-generation cross-asset calculation system for Citi trading desks and enterprise users in the largest global financial markets and exchanges in New York, London, and other major financial hubs. Our team owns multiple Java Spring Boot Services that execute, partition, and track quantitative risk graphs/trades in a distributed environment. These graphs can fail due to their complexity and our system must adapt quickly to these failures to provide a seamless experience for clients. XiP Compute Services are deployed onto OpenShift and Amazon's Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). An important initiative in 2025 will be onboarding Google's Kubernetes Engine to further expand our coverage. Our system scales on-demand, and we can run up to tens of thousands of replicas of our services across all asset classes. The role of the Senior Technical Lead is to lead a variety of engineering activities including design decisions regarding technical direction of the platform with short, medium, and long-term changes, with a key focus on public cloud onboarding. The project requires constant review of the technologies, patterns and paradigms used to ensure the system is easy to understand, performant, scalable, testable, robust, and observable. The role is a conjunction of technical and managerial roles, with line-management duties, while giving technical direction to a growing team of developers globally. The platform is a Greenfield build using standard modern technologies such as Java, Spring Boot, Kubernetes, Kafka, MongoDB, RabbitMQ, Solace, Apache Ignite. The platform runs in a hybrid mode both on-premise and in AWS utilizing technologies such as EKS, S3, FSX. The main purpose of this role is to lead efforts of continued platform onboarding to AWS as well as the new initiative to deploy into GCP. The project is in a scale-out phase, with a goal of expanding the user base and workloads towards running billions of financial calculations per day across hundreds of thousands of cores. The aim of the project is to run all finance calculations for Citi's Front Office Markets business globally. Responsibilities: Steering platform onboarding into AWS and Google Cloud, while collaborating with Citi HPC team and AWS/Google partners. Challenging proposed and provided solutions in terms of performance, robustness and cost effectiveness. Making decisions regarding technical direction of platform, including evaluating new technologies and executing proof-of-concept implementations, with good understanding of various limitations. Identifying and defining necessary system enhancements to improve current processes and architecture. Hands-on coding of fixes, features, and improvements. Investigating reported or observed platform issues. Reviewing pull-requests from other team members and giving robust critique/feedback. Identifying and proposing teamwork enhancements. Reviewing requests for new features, balancing user requirements with defending the platform from complexity and low-value features. Collaborating with key partners across the firm for extending the platform, such as: the infrastructure provider group; quant group; upstream and downstream systems. Mentoring/coaching junior developers on coding/architecture approaches and best practices. Skills and Experience: Expert knowledge of distributed systems including event-driven architecture; at-least-once messaging; CAP Theorem; horizontal and vertical scaling strategies; massively distributed architectures. Expert knowledge of Java, JVM, memory management, garbage collection. Thorough understanding of multithreaded environment challenges. Expert knowledge of Spring, SpringBoot framework and associated technologies. Expert knowledge of test frameworks, such as Junit, Mockito, writing easily-testable code. Expertise in Java debugging, including remote debugging of services deployed to K8s. Expert knowledge of Kubernetes and associated technologies such as KEDA, Karpenter, ClusterAutoscaler, CoreDNS. Expert knowledge of SQL and/or NoSQL database technologies. Expert knowledge of various messaging protocols and technologies such as REST, HTTP/S, AMQP, WebSocket. Expert knowledge of Confluent Kafka. Experience and good understanding of core technologies provided by GCP/AWS, such as S3, FSX, EKS, SQS, SNS, Kinesis, AmazonMQ, DynamoDB, GKE, CloudStorage, PubSub, Filestore. Knowledge of modern observability technologies such as ELK, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, Micrometer. "What-if" thinking, while designing or reviewing solutions, to foresee or catch potential problems as early in the development process, as only possible. Nice to have: Good knowledge of Python, Groovy, Bash. C++ basic knowledge/experience. Good knowledge of PubSub model. Good knowledge of Finance, especially large-scale risk calculation. Good knowledge of representing complex calculations as graphs of instructions which can be horizontally distributed. Job Family Group: Technology Job Family: Applications Development Time Type: Full time Citi is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran. Citigroup Inc. and its subsidiaries ("Citi") invite all qualified interested applicants to apply for career opportunities. If you are a person with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation to use our search tools and/or apply for a career opportunity review Accessibility at Citi . View the " EEO is the Law " poster. View the EEO is the Law Supplement . View the EEO Policy Statement . View the Pay Transparency Posting .
EngineeringUK
You will need to login before you can apply for a job. View more categories View less categories Sector Retail and Wholesale Role Senior Executive Contract Type Permanent Hours Full Time About the role Customer Personalisation and Loyalty (CPL) is a cross-cutting change programme involving around ten product teams that work with a range of services providers. As a Senior Staff Engineer you will have significant influence over how software is designed, built and run within this wide business area. You will lead design and engineering decisions which may cross business domains to enable the overall solution to meet business goals and ensure the solution complies with the Partnership's Architecture and Engineering Principals. Additionally, you will also ensure the overall engineering approach is aligned with principles of continuous delivery to enable major components to be deployed to production frequently and independently of each other. You will work closely with product teams, Delivery Managers, Product Managers, Enterprise Architects and other stakeholders which will require excellent influencing and stakeholder management skills. Successful candidates will have a passion for using technology to deliver outstanding and innovative software solutions, and will have a track record of working with teams delivering complex, performant, high quality software. At a glance Contract type - This position is a permanent contract. Working pattern/flexible working - We know flexible working is important to you, and it is important to us too. The Partnership has adopted a blended working approach meaning you'll be able to work a mixture between the office and home based upon your personal needs whilst balancing the needs of the business. Location - This role is based at our London Pimlico Head Office campus. Please note, any cost incurred as a result of travel to the office is the responsibility of the successful candidate. There is no travel allowance for this role. There is also a responsibility to visit our John Lewis branches when necessary. You will be able to claim travel expenses for these journeys. Essential skills/experience you'll need Extensive hands-on experience of building large scale apps in a complex business environment, leading engineering decisions and influencing a wide range of stakeholders. Hands-on experience of building software on a modern software stack. Experience of leading and influencing engineering decisions in a complex environment. A good understanding of software architecture and architectural styles including Microservice and Event based architectures. Experience of building highly performant, scalable applications. An understanding of Agile development methods such as Scrum or Kanban. Familiarity with engineering techniques such as TDD, pair programming. You must be comfortable pairing with other Software Engineers. Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery in complex environments. The ideal candidate will have experience with some parts of our stack: Microservice/Event driven architecture using GCP/GKE or AWS/EKS. Back-end services are built using Java or Kotlin. Websites are built using React and TypeScript with a micro-frontend architecture. Mobile Apps are native in iOS/Swift or Android/Kotlin. Desirable skills/experience you may have Domain specific knowledge of building software used to increase customer loyalty and experience of working with platforms such as Eagle Eye. Cloud Platforms such as AWS, GCP or Azure. Docker, Kubernetes. Application security. There are opportunities to become a people manager for your fellow engineers if that is something that appeals to you. Benefits of the Partnership and the role - Hybrid Working. - Full - time working holiday entitlement 25 days holiday, plus public and bank holidays (this is pro-rated for part time hours). - Excellent work life balance, including focus on well being and flexible working and our marketing leading equal parenthood leave Policy. - Defined Contribution pension scheme where your contributions will be matched by the Partnership (up to 8% of pay) and, after three years' service, you'll receive an additional Partnership contribution of 4% of pay, regardless of whether you pay in or not. - You'll get Partnership discount in store and online once you complete your Earning Membership period. That's 25% off in John Lewis & Partners (12% off electrical products, some exclusions apply) and 20% in Waitrose & Partners (some exclusions apply) You'll also be able to nominate someone you live with to share your discount. - Simple cycle to work support scheme. - We're really proud of our exclusive hotels based in some of Britain's most beautiful areas and once you've been with us for three months, you're welcome to explore them. - Health Care cover. About The Partnership We're the largest employee owned business in the UK and home of our cherished brands, John Lewis and Waitrose. We're not just employees, we're Partners, driven by our purpose to build a happier world. As we look to our future, there's never been a more exciting time to join us. We're ruthlessly focused on being brilliant at retail. We continue to innovate, adapt and diversify. Never Knowingly Undersold on price, quality and service in John Lewis and passionately serving food-lovers in Waitrose. As Partners we all share the responsibility of ownership and in its rewards. We use our voices to contribute to our success, working together through the good and challenging times, holding true to our behaviours and treating everyone with kindness and respect. We all own making the Partnership somewhere we belong. Embracing our differences and creating an environment where we're free to be ourselves and can THRIVE. Growing ourselves individually, and as a collective. As Partners, we make all the difference. And, we all own it. Important points to note: It's important to note that some of our roles are subject to pre-employment vetting. If required, you'll find out more about vetting throughout the recruitment process and we encourage you to complete any vetting documents quickly to avoid delays. We also recommend that you apply as soon as possible as vacancies can close early if we see a high number of applicants. We want all of our Partners to have a good work-life balance and we support flexible working. This might mean flexible or compressed hours, job sharing or shorter hour contracts, where possible. Please discuss this further with the hiring manager during your interview. Company Learn more about this company Visit this company's hub to learn about their values, culture, and latest jobs.
You will need to login before you can apply for a job. View more categories View less categories Sector Retail and Wholesale Role Senior Executive Contract Type Permanent Hours Full Time About the role Customer Personalisation and Loyalty (CPL) is a cross-cutting change programme involving around ten product teams that work with a range of services providers. As a Senior Staff Engineer you will have significant influence over how software is designed, built and run within this wide business area. You will lead design and engineering decisions which may cross business domains to enable the overall solution to meet business goals and ensure the solution complies with the Partnership's Architecture and Engineering Principals. Additionally, you will also ensure the overall engineering approach is aligned with principles of continuous delivery to enable major components to be deployed to production frequently and independently of each other. You will work closely with product teams, Delivery Managers, Product Managers, Enterprise Architects and other stakeholders which will require excellent influencing and stakeholder management skills. Successful candidates will have a passion for using technology to deliver outstanding and innovative software solutions, and will have a track record of working with teams delivering complex, performant, high quality software. At a glance Contract type - This position is a permanent contract. Working pattern/flexible working - We know flexible working is important to you, and it is important to us too. The Partnership has adopted a blended working approach meaning you'll be able to work a mixture between the office and home based upon your personal needs whilst balancing the needs of the business. Location - This role is based at our London Pimlico Head Office campus. Please note, any cost incurred as a result of travel to the office is the responsibility of the successful candidate. There is no travel allowance for this role. There is also a responsibility to visit our John Lewis branches when necessary. You will be able to claim travel expenses for these journeys. Essential skills/experience you'll need Extensive hands-on experience of building large scale apps in a complex business environment, leading engineering decisions and influencing a wide range of stakeholders. Hands-on experience of building software on a modern software stack. Experience of leading and influencing engineering decisions in a complex environment. A good understanding of software architecture and architectural styles including Microservice and Event based architectures. Experience of building highly performant, scalable applications. An understanding of Agile development methods such as Scrum or Kanban. Familiarity with engineering techniques such as TDD, pair programming. You must be comfortable pairing with other Software Engineers. Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery in complex environments. The ideal candidate will have experience with some parts of our stack: Microservice/Event driven architecture using GCP/GKE or AWS/EKS. Back-end services are built using Java or Kotlin. Websites are built using React and TypeScript with a micro-frontend architecture. Mobile Apps are native in iOS/Swift or Android/Kotlin. Desirable skills/experience you may have Domain specific knowledge of building software used to increase customer loyalty and experience of working with platforms such as Eagle Eye. Cloud Platforms such as AWS, GCP or Azure. Docker, Kubernetes. Application security. There are opportunities to become a people manager for your fellow engineers if that is something that appeals to you. Benefits of the Partnership and the role - Hybrid Working. - Full - time working holiday entitlement 25 days holiday, plus public and bank holidays (this is pro-rated for part time hours). - Excellent work life balance, including focus on well being and flexible working and our marketing leading equal parenthood leave Policy. - Defined Contribution pension scheme where your contributions will be matched by the Partnership (up to 8% of pay) and, after three years' service, you'll receive an additional Partnership contribution of 4% of pay, regardless of whether you pay in or not. - You'll get Partnership discount in store and online once you complete your Earning Membership period. That's 25% off in John Lewis & Partners (12% off electrical products, some exclusions apply) and 20% in Waitrose & Partners (some exclusions apply) You'll also be able to nominate someone you live with to share your discount. - Simple cycle to work support scheme. - We're really proud of our exclusive hotels based in some of Britain's most beautiful areas and once you've been with us for three months, you're welcome to explore them. - Health Care cover. About The Partnership We're the largest employee owned business in the UK and home of our cherished brands, John Lewis and Waitrose. We're not just employees, we're Partners, driven by our purpose to build a happier world. As we look to our future, there's never been a more exciting time to join us. We're ruthlessly focused on being brilliant at retail. We continue to innovate, adapt and diversify. Never Knowingly Undersold on price, quality and service in John Lewis and passionately serving food-lovers in Waitrose. As Partners we all share the responsibility of ownership and in its rewards. We use our voices to contribute to our success, working together through the good and challenging times, holding true to our behaviours and treating everyone with kindness and respect. We all own making the Partnership somewhere we belong. Embracing our differences and creating an environment where we're free to be ourselves and can THRIVE. Growing ourselves individually, and as a collective. As Partners, we make all the difference. And, we all own it. Important points to note: It's important to note that some of our roles are subject to pre-employment vetting. If required, you'll find out more about vetting throughout the recruitment process and we encourage you to complete any vetting documents quickly to avoid delays. We also recommend that you apply as soon as possible as vacancies can close early if we see a high number of applicants. We want all of our Partners to have a good work-life balance and we support flexible working. This might mean flexible or compressed hours, job sharing or shorter hour contracts, where possible. Please discuss this further with the hiring manager during your interview. Company Learn more about this company Visit this company's hub to learn about their values, culture, and latest jobs.