Engineering Squad Lead - Cloud

Overview:

Engineering Squad Lead (Cloud) – Krakow – Remote Working Pattern

We’re Kingfisher. You might know us as Castorama, B&Q, Screwfix, Brico Depot or Koçtaş. We’re made up of over 78,000 passionate people, call over 1,300 stores home and operate in 8 countries. That’s right, we’re big, but we have ambitions to become even bigger and even better. We want to become the leading home improvement company and grow the largest community of home improvers in the world. And that’s where you come in.

At Kingfisher our customers come from all walks of life, and so do we. We want to ensure that all colleagues, future colleagues, and applicants to Kingfisher are treated equally regardless of age, gender, marital or civil partnership status, colour, ethnic or national origin, culture, religious belief, philosophical belief, political opinion, disability, gender identity, gender expression or sexual orientation.

If you require any additional support or adjustments to help you make an application, please contact us at kingfisher.recruitment@kingfisher.com

We advocate the benefits of a flexible and hybrid working environment, recognising that this means different things, to different people, in different roles.

Role Overview:

We are going through and exciting period of change and are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Team Leader to join our DevOps Engineering Team. You will work as part of our exciting greenfield tech hub covering all facets of technology within Kingfisher. 

Each squad is led by an "Engineering Squad Lead" who is responsible for a squad’s day to day activities and deliverables. They are a natural leader, an engineer practitioner at heart and have first-hand experience of building and testing features. They take deep interest and actively work to keep ways of working simple, effective, and efficient. They use their first-hand experience to help squads resolve impediments, take measured risks and make progress by collaborating with Principal Engineers and end users.

If you're looking for an exciting opportunity to step out of your comfort zone and make a real impact building better software, this is the job for you!  

Key Accountabilities / Responsibilities:

• Accountability: Serves a crucial purpose in the agile matrix. They are the line manager of people on their squad. They help plan and orchestrate execution of the work, build a cohesive team and are accountable for delivering customer and engineering outcomes working in collaboration with product owners.
• Collaboration: They focus on continuous improvements of their squad, striving to increase their impact, effectiveness, and efficiency through the support of Chapter tooling and ways of working, while maintaining employee survey eNPS scores.
• Coach and Advisor: They provide inspiration, coaching, and feedback to team members, report back on progress to domain leaders, and focus on people development and performance to their team via the support of chapter leaders.
• Leadership: They leverage their first-hand experience to communicate their vision and shape their squad’s impact. They combine their passion for software engineering with a passion for developing and furthering their leadership skills
• Build collaborative relationships: Drive highly effective communication and engagement across banner and group teams ensuring that changes in people requirements or quality issues are discussed and agreed.
• Performance Management: Support effective performance processes for the chapter members, using the defined goal setting and objectives.
• Belonging: Foster and grow a highly collaborative and inclusive Squad that enables evolution of high performing, engaged and inclusive teams.

Required Skills & Experience:

• High technical skills and understanding of what it takes to run services in the cloud in a secure manner
• Understanding of infrastructure as code and the ability to take part in code reviews
• Experience with one or more (ideally) cloud providers
• Considerable experience within the experience/appreciation/understanding of developing software with quality.
• Broad understanding of the tech industry, markets, trends, emerging technologies, and their implications for retail organisations
• Experience of shaping, motivating, and driving change within a large, complex, matrix and fast-moving environment.
• Excellent stakeholder management & influencing skills at all levels of the organisation with great communication, collaboration, and leadership skills.
• Effective and creative problem-solving and decision-making with the ability to navigate complexity and ambiguity to quickly identify simple/effective solutions.
• Talented people leader, coaching, mentoring, facilitation, and teaching, whilst developing a pipeline of future talent.