Software Development Manager

Company Description

Tesco Bengaluru: We are a multi-disciplinary team creating a sustainable competitive advantage for Tesco by standardising processes, delivering cost savings, enabling agility, providing cutting-edge technological solutions and empowering our colleagues to do ever more for our customers. With cross-functional expertise in Global Business Services and Retail Technology & Engineering, a wide network of teams and strong governance we reduce complexity thereby offering high quality services for our customers. Tesco Bengaluru, established in 2004 to enable standardisation and build centralised capabilities and competencies, makes the experience better for our millions of customers worldwide and simpler for over 4,40,000 colleagues.
Tesco Technology consists of people from a number of different backgrounds, but having a common purpose to serve our shoppers a little better every day with our retail technological solutions. We shared a common interest in harnessing innovations in technology to enhance their shopping experience at Tesco stores. Whether making products, software or systems, our teams focuses on various aspects from taking strategic ownership of the architecture to delivering technological solutions such as design, testing, deployment, infrastructure, operation and security of the systems to ensure agile, smooth and safe operations. These help us to deliver the maximum business impact. Teams refine their internal processes to best fit their own needs, working to build core capabilities in application and services. We collaborate globally across teams to build end-to-end customer-facing solutions, as well as to share knowledge, experience, tools and techniques.
At Tesco, inclusion means that Everyone?s Welcome. Everyone is treated fairly and with respect; by valuing individuality and uniqueness we create a sense of belonging.
Diversity and inclusion have always been at the heart of Tesco. It is embedded in our values: we treat people how they want to be treated. We always want our colleagues to feel they can be themselves at work and we are committed to helping them be at their best.
Across the Tesco group we are building an inclusive workplace, a place to actively celebrate the cultures, personalities and preferences of our colleagues ? who in turn help to build the success of our business and reflect the diversity of the communities we serve.

Job Description

As a Software Development Manager within Customer Fulfilment Technology team; your primary responsibility would be to build and maintain a passionate; engaged and effective development team of engineers. You do this through taking a deep interest in the people that report to you; making sure they are happy; motivated and challenged in what they are doing. You guide them to reach pragmatic technical solutions and keep yourself close to the code without becoming a blocker. You take ownership when things go wrong but celebrate success collectively.
Specifically; you will:
- Foster the careers of the engineers reporting into you by finding opportunity for growth; coaching; addressing concerns and if necessary; implementing performance management.
- Grow the capability of Tesco Technology by becoming involved in our engineering hiring and being passionate about building high performing and diverse teams.
- Work closely with Product Management to identify and minimise risk within an outcome and help prioritise and evolve a workable technical solution ready for delivery.
- Represent Customer Fulfilment technology team within the wider technical discussions across different stakeholder groups; constantly broadening your understanding of our technology landscape to increase the effectiveness of your contribution.
- Take ownership for the delivery of specific outcomes; or work across wider groups in conjunction with programme management to deliver more significant outcomes.
- Take ownership of non-functional outcomes of Customer Fulfilment Components (e.g.FPS) capabilities and features; including performance; availability; reliability and security.
- Continually look for means to evolve and improve our technology; processes and practices.

Qualifications

Experience relevant for this job:
•Previous experience with management of software engineering teams of around 5+ people in size.
•Previous experience of having managed product development using agile methodologies
•Hands-on experience of building and supporting reliable and operationally robust full stack and distributed Java applications / products
•Any previous experience of having managed a globally distributed software engineering teams would be a big plus.
Skills relevant for the job:
•A high degree of emotional intelligence. You are aware of your own emotions; how you appear and can self-reflect on your actions. You can empathise with others and modify your behaviour and style accordingly.
•Problem solving; analysis and computational skills. You are comfortable designing systems and reasoning about them. When tackling problems; you take a thorough and logical approach to solving them and retaining ownership through to resolution.

Additional Information

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