Engineering Manager (Digital)

• To lead the development of high quality and innovative Digital solutions providing marketing leading digital customer experiences
• To support, develop and drive GK Digital Software Engineers in our mission to create industry leading digital solutions 
• To collaborate with teams in product, delivery, test and service to deliver scalable and secure solutions in line with business ambitions 
• The role will create new standards, collaboration and governance structures for 
• Engineering, using modern techniques and technologies with a focus on continuous improvement
• To support and lead the teams in the adoption and use of Agile methods (Scrum and scaling Agile e.g. SAFe) and DORA metrics in conjunction with the GK Digital 
• Delivery and Digital Architecture teams
• Develop, maintain and enhance key Digital platforms such as CMS, mobile apps and integration
• Develop integration solutions in a secure and scalable way connecting data and platforms to create business value
• Build-out and maintain cloud-based environments and components that align to Greene King deployment principles
• Creating Engineering standards, aligning internal and partner teams and measuring adherence to this
• Work with Digital Delivery and Digital Products to understand planned initiatives, act as the technical lead providing advice, guidance and ultimately solutions for projects and the business
• Contribute and collaborate with Architecture to ensure solutions follow agreed patterns
• Write clean, modular code using industry best practise and modern techniques 
• Create and maintain Dev Ops pipelines to provide streamlined development flows, using automation and a security first approach to meet all core development standards and principles
• Maintain technical documentation to support the work undertaken
• Research and recommend areas to improve and enhance processes or techniques for engineering
• Mentoring and developing other team members
• Example KPIs include Defect Density, Application Response Time, Pull Request 
• Merge Time, Sprint Velocity, Automation Coverage, Change Failure Rate, 
• Deployment Frequency and Test Coverage rate

At Greene King we believe Digital will enable us to deliver a step change in the pub experience. We obsess over building best in class user and customer experiences across our digital products. We will live up to being the pride of British hospitality by making sure we deliver digital products that fit into our physical experiences seamlessly and to ensure our customers come back time and time again.

In reward for your hard work, you will receive...

You will receive a competitive salary, pension contribution as well as:

• Agile working policy - Your time will be split with 50% working within our Burton on Trent office or pubs and 50% working from home
• 33 days Holiday – With the opportunity to buy an additional 5 days!
• Discount of 33% for you and 15% for your loved ones on all of our brands – so you enjoy your favourite food and drink at a discount.
• Discount of 50% for you and 25% for your loved ones at our Greene King Inns and hotels. – so, you can enjoy a weekend away without breaking the bank
• Life Assurance – Up to 4 times your salary!
• Discounted Dental & Health Insurance
• Free employee assistance program – Mental Health, well-being, Financial, and Legal support because you matter!
• Refer a friend – Who do you know who could be interested in a new role? When they are placed, you will a bonus for referring them!
• Retail discounts – Receive up to 30% of at Superdrug, exclusive discounts with three mobile along with many more…
• The chance to further your career across our well-known brands – As one of the industry's top apprenticeship providers, we can provide training and development at each level of your career. 

• Lead thinking and development of digital software engineering, including having a strong understanding of modern integration software and tooling
• Proven problem solver, takes a proactive approach to finding the right solution to a meet customers’ needs
• Able to coach and mentor team members to share knowledge and support the growth of the team
• Demonstrates customer focussed ownership and accountability
• Is able to build good user relationships
• Is a highly motivated team player who demonstrates team centred behaviours
• Highly effective communication skills
• Able to deliver in a fast-moving, changing business environment
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring for other Software Engineers
• Has a proven track record of delivering results with enthusiasm and a positive "can do" attitude, able to work with multiple priorities and progress activities with urgency and pace
• Welcomes and can support business change in terms of new and evolving processes that will support Greene King Digital delivery and development
• Proactive and able to enhance and evolve all aspects of themselves and the team in terms of new process, software and techniques
• Strong experience in developing solutions using a range of technologies including .net, node, JavaScript frameworks such as Vue.JS, react, Kotlin and Swift 
• Experience of building Digital platforms (Web, App) or integration (API & 
• Microservices) solutions 
• Experience of cloud-based environment builds using Microsoft Azure or AWS in a structured way using infrastructure as code
• Experience of building and maintaining software toolsets and pipelines to support automated and robust software development practises
• Experience of security solutions and controls that must be used in Digital
• Experience of developing CMS solutions such as Sitecore
• Experience of building native mobile application solutions
• Experience of modern authentication/ authorisation approaches using as OAuth2, OIDC, SAML
• Experience of defining, governing and evolving engineering principles
• Strong knowledge of software development standards, best practises such as TDD, BDD
• Experience of creating technical documentation to support solution design, delivery, and release activities 
• Experience of working with 3rd party engineering teams to collaborate and deliver solutions 
• Experience with using Observability tooling to monitor platform health
• Experience of Event-driven Architecture patterns
• Familiar with building out HA/DR compliant solutions that can handle scaled public 
• Digital solutions 
• Computer Science degree
• Interest in AI
• Certifications in Cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS and integration platforms (nice to have)