Principal Software Engineer

JD Sports Fashion plc; Bury; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading sports fashion retailer in the UK is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to oversee technology solutions, ensuring security and governance standards. The role requires knowledge in AWS, GraphQL, and Typescript, along with experience in CI/CD methodologies. This position offers a vibrant work environment and numerous opportunities for personal development and growth within the company.

Benefits

Staff Discount on qualifying purchases across Group retail stores and online

Discounted Gym membership

Personal development opportunities

Access to Apprenticeships and accredited qualifications

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of serverless architectures and event-driven design.
• Experience with CI/CD methodologies.
• Ability to manage engineering execution capacity through metrics.

Responsibilities

• Oversee design and execution of technology solutions aligning with strategy.
• Ensure security and quality guardrails are adhered to.
• Manage engineering productivity with insights from internal platforms.

Skills

AWS/cloud computing

GraphQL

Typescript

Infrastructure as Code (IAC) Terraform

API development

NoSQL

containers

Job description

Overview

Established in 1981 with a single store in the Northwest of England, the JD Group is a leading omni-channel retailer of Sports Fashion, Outdoors and Gyms with colleagues working in stores across several retail fascias in many markets around the world. JD Sports Fashion Plc was listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1996 and has been a FTSE100 publicly quoted company since 2019 and continues to grow in the UK and internationally. JD aims to be the leading global omnichannel retailer in the sports and outdoor industry.

To be part of this successful company you will help ingrain our strategic goals of being people-led, innovative and customer-focused, delivering operational excellence while identifying new areas of growth as part of day-to-day objectives. JD has embarked on a digital re-platform initiative for MACH and EDA, with new SaaS providers onboarded in a buy vs. build mindset. We are re-architecting our platforms to enable teams to focus on integrating these systems and delivering secure, scalable, and cost-optimised functionality and change at pace.

Job Details

Job Title – Principal Software Engineer

Location – BL9 8RR

Working rota – Monday to Friday

Working hours – 40

What You'll Be Doing

As a Principal Software Engineer, you'll be doing the following:

• To work with PSE counterparts to oversee the design and execution of aligned technology solutions in line with the organisation’s technology and engineering strategy
• To work with PSE counterparts and the Platform Services/DevOps team to ensure security, governance and quality guardrails are in place and adhered to
• To ensure tooling provided by the Platform Services team leverages all required engineering productivity, development and deployment tooling operating under a CI/CD methodology
• To work with PSE counterparts to devise policies and strategies pertaining to industry engineering standards and practices
• To manage the productivity and quality of internal and external engineering execution capability and capacity utilising metrics and data insights from our internal developer platform and work planning tools

What We're Looking For

• Good knowledge of AWS/cloud computing providers and technologies specific to the domain including API development, Serverless, NoSQL, containers
• Strong experience in GraphQL, Typescript and (IAC) Terraform
• Working experience with different architectural styles (MVC, event-driven, pipes, and filters).

The Company

The JD Group is a leading omnichannel retailer of Sports Fashion, Street & Premium Fashion, Outdoors and Gyms with over 60,000 colleagues across 3,400 stores in over 30 markets around the world. We are an equal opportunities employer who embraces and values differences. We recognise the importance of an inclusive workplace culture in which everyone can thrive irrespective of their background or identity.

Benefits

• Staff Discount on qualifying purchases across Group retail stores and online
• Discounted Gym membership
• Personal development opportunities to learn and develop at work
• Access to Apprenticeships and accredited qualifications

Interested? If you are interested in this position, press the Apply Now button. Due to the high volumes of applications our opportunities attract, it takes time to review them all. If you don't hear back within two weeks of your application, please consider your application to have been unsuccessful on this occasion. Applications that meet the skills criteria will be contacted for a 1st stage meeting with the talent team. Shortlisted candidates will then be invited to interview with the hiring manager. Thank you for your time.