Lead Software Engineer - Parametric
Marks & Spencer Group plc2 days ago
Base Salary
$115k - $225k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect and lead development of a high-throughput, event-driven performance calculation engine on AWS.
- Lead migration of legacy performance reporting applications to a scalable, cloud-native technology platform.
- Design distributed systems using object-oriented languages, Apache Kafka, and AWS services.
- Define data modeling, schema design, observability, alerting, runbook, reliability, and auditability standards.
- Lead Agile delivery practices, technical design documentation, code reviews, testing, and adoption of appropriate cloud-native technologies.
- Mentor and lead a global engineering team, support career development, and foster an inclusive engineering culture.
- Translate financial business requirements into technical specifications and communicate architectural trade-offs and roadmap recommendations to stakeholders and senior leadership.
Requirements
- At least 8 years of hands-on software development experience.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field; a master’s degree is a plus.
- Strong object-oriented software development experience, with C#/.NET preferred.
- Significant experience building cloud-native applications, with AWS preferred.
- Experience managing and guiding software development teams.
- Experience architecting highly available, distributed, event-driven systems.
- Hands-on experience with Apache Kafka or an equivalent streaming or messaging platform.
- Strong experience with relational databases, SQL, and NoSQL data stores such as DynamoDB.
- Strong data modeling expertise across relational, columnar, key-value, and streaming patterns.
- Proven experience delivering through Agile/Scrum methodologies and leading legacy system modernization.
- Strong communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Fluency in applying AI/GenAI to engineering productivity, including code review, test-case creation, and code generation.
- Infrastructure-as-Code experience, preferably Terraform.
- Experience with Snowflake, microservices architecture, serverless technologies, CI/CD pipelines, and code quality tooling.
- Financial Services experience is a plus.
Benefits
- Hybrid work model with three days per week in the office and the remaining days remote or in the office.
- Comprehensive employee benefits and perks supporting employees and their families.
- Equal opportunity workplace with a commitment to diversity, inclusion, employee development, and career mobility.
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About Marks & Spencer Group plc
Marks & Spencer Group plc is a British retailer selling clothing, home goods, and food to consumers through stores and ecommerce, with a focus on own-brand products. The company is listed on the London Stock Exchange, was founded in 1884, and is headquartered in London. In the UK, its online grocery offering runs via Ocado Retail, a joint venture in which M&S holds a significant stake.