Engineering Enablement Lead

• 27 days of leave, plus bank holidays and if you want, you can buy 5 more.
• Flexible Working, the opportunity for an early Friday finish, and a subsidised cafeteria.
• Primark Perks – Discounts with some local partner businesses to our offices

• At Primark, we know how hard everyone works to achieve our business goals. Having a competitive salary and annual bonus scheme is our way of acknowledging this. We will also provide you with a progressive career path, because clear advancement is what we are all about at Primark
  
• Our flexible working benefit, Your Day Your Way, means you get to choose when to start and finish your workday. Choose to work remotely if you like, in a way that suits you but also helps us get the most out of your talents. There is a lively culture here, and it’s easy to get to know each other in a truly warm atmosphere.

• Responsible for leading the design & delivery of Devops Practices, Tools, Automation and Strategies.
• Accountable for the enablement and management of products and services in terms of providing the tools, pipelines and guardrails through self-service and facilitating through support / coaching / incubation.
• Enable the engineering experience so that engineers (dev + ops) can focus on delivering high-quality products and services.
• Own the strategy for this area and ensure that key stakeholders are informed.
• Build strong relationships with both our internal senior stakeholders and key partner stakeholders to ensure a seamless software delivery capability across the Primark Technology and Business Domains.
• Operational accountability/responsibility for the software delivery capability, enabling multi-location and time-zone availability.
• Partner with Shared services as required and Drive SI & application vendors to meet and exceed expectations.
• Define and govern software quality and testing standards; ultimately improve software delivery and operational performance measured through industry standard metrics.
• Drive data management improvements and help develop appropriate tooling.
• Drive automation in all aspects of the SDLC.
• Develop a culture of awareness, accountability and compliance with regards to Security, GDPR, IT governance controls and Business continuity/Disaster recovery.
• Orchestrate a culture of collaboration across the organisation to ensure scalability and long-term efficiency.
• Pro-actively seek relevant external insight, trends and innovations to ensure Primark remains best in class within your area.
• Provide leadership, guidance, and direction to teams, fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement across the team.
• Demonstrate and champion pragmatism in terms of commercial delivery and software quality.
• Promote technology values and ways of working within the team and wider software engineering community.

• 10+ years in Software testing and delivery with at least 5 being in the capacity as manager/leader.
• Cloud experience (Azure) & knowledge of MACH architecture.
• Experience with Testing tools and suites such as HP ALM, Octane, Atlassian JIRA & JSM, Selenium etc.
• Excellent people management, interpersonal, analytical, and problem-solving skills
• High availability, DR & BC experience an advantage
• Experience with CI/CD and related DevOps tooling
• Risk management & commercial awarenes
• Stakeholder/Customer focused with strong communication and negotiation skill
• Experience of IT for IT tools such as Atlassian suite, Service now etc. an advantag
• Experience in enterprise grade software deployments and operation
• Working understanding of scalable agile SDLCs and distributed computing setups
• IT related 3rd level qualification (exceptions may be made where relevant experience compensates, and in-depth experience is demonstrated)

147029BR