Engineering Enablement lead

Because we strive to put people first.

What You’ll Get
The world is changing and it’s important we support our colleagues. People are at the heart of what we do at Primark so it’s essential we provide the right environment for you to perform at your best. That’s why we offer benefits that put you first.

Some of our benefits are:

• 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

Why work with us?

• 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.

Job Purpose:

At Primark we are looking to change the way we deliver technology changes to the systems our customers consume. To drive this change, we are looking for an experienced Engineering Enablement Lead who has a strong background in delivering this type of change in a fast-paced environment. In this role, you will oversee and optimise the way we deliver these technology changes to maximise value at minimum cost.

You will be accountable for the enablement and adoption of Software Engineering principles to Primark. Working with our Engineering Managers, Portfolio Delivery Leads, and Product Teams. You will lead the Engineering Enablement practice across technology, where we aim to enable more frequent and faster deployments, improve software quality, reduce change failure rate and improve the mean time to recover in the event of an issue occurring.

You will play a critical role in the Engineering Enablement team where you will be embedding agile ways of working and instilling best in class software engineering techniques.

Key Responsibilities

• development practices, utisiling modern tooling and automation.

• Pro-actively seek relevant external insight, trends and innovations to ensure Primark remains best in class within your area.

• Orchestrate a culture of collaboration across the organisation to ensure scalability and long-term efficiency. 

• Develop a culture of awareness, accountability and compliance with regards to Security, GDPR, IT governance controls and Business continuity/Disaster recovery.

• Drive automation in all aspects of the SDLC.

• Improve software delivery and operational performance measured through industry standard metrics.

• 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.

• Enable the engineering experience so that engineers can focus on delivering high-quality products and services. development practices, utisiling modern tooling and automation.

• Enable the engineering experience so that engineers can focus on delivering high-quality products and services.

• 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.

• Improve software delivery and operational performance measured through industry standard metrics.

• 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.

Knowledge & Experience Required:

• 10+ years in software engineering or DevOps, including 5+ years in a leadership or amanagement role.

• Stakeholder-focused with excellent communication and negotiation skills.

• Demonstrated success in leading teams through enterprise-grade software delivery and operations.

• Familiarity with high availability, disaster recovery, and business continuity practices.

• Experience with event-driven microservice architectures/platforms an advantage.

• Working knowledge of scalable Agile SDLCs and distributed systems.

• Experience with the Atlassian Suite or similar tooling.

• Strong experience with CI/CD tooling integrated with source control (such as GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps) at scale.

• Proven experience with cloud platforms (e.g. Azure, GCP) and IaC tooling such as Terraform.

• Strong knowledge of software engineering principles, system design, and modern development practices.

About Primark
At Primark, people matter. They're the beating heart of our business and the reason we've grown from our first store in Dublin in 1969 to a £9bn+ turnover business and over 80,000 colleagues and over 440 stores in 17 countries today. Our values run through everything we do. In essence, we're Caring and always strive to put people first. We're also Dynamic, bravely pushing the boundaries to stay ahead. And finally, we succeed Together.
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