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Principal Software EngineerTechnology
Engineering Excellence – Principal Software Engineer
“Everything about Asda”
We are a values-led organisation. As such we encourage everyone to be open and honest. We work creatively and collaboratively, valuing everyone’s input.
Our collaborative culture, the size of our business and our belief in the empowerment of the individual means opportunities at Asda are abundant.
We conduct £300m worth of transactions every week. Our website handles over 2 million transactions a month. We have more than 145,000 dedicated Asda colleagues ensuring that our customers are at the heart of everything we do.
“Everything you’ll love”
Starting 26 days annual leave per year plus 8 bank holidays – Making sure you take time for yourself and switch off
4 weekly pay – which means you get an extra payday a year
Digital GP and Wellbeing sessions – Asda genuinely cares so we create a culture where our people can perform at their best, the physical health and mental wellbeing of all our people is very important to us
Discount off your shopping at Asda and George - with extra discounts running throughout the year – really makes a difference, saving the colleagues an average of £700 a year
Career development and apprenticeship and graduate schemes - we want our colleagues to excel and grow with our business. (Link to grad scheme on Asda page)
Free city centre parking – you can also use it outside working hours
Plus, much more!
What You'll Love
We’re looking for a DevSecOps focussed Principal Software Engineer to be part of our Engineering Excellence team.
Our Mission: Increase efficiency and agility across engineering teams enabling them to mobilise quickly and deliver quality, secure, right first-time features for our customers at reduced costs.
Enable operations teams to pro-actively monitor and quickly report across critical systems.
A Principal Software Engineer reports into the Head of Engineering and drives the delivery of our mission through a combination of design, build & implementation activity together with working alongside multiple engineering teams across the department, supporting them to adopt new ways of working.
This role will be key in driving the adoption of modern architecture and trends such as DevSecOps and Cloud Native technology platforms. The role will involve strong collaboration with others - be it learning from examples of existing great engineering work, collaborating with others to create it or mentoring engineers to use it.
Your Role
Provide technical expertise, ship brilliantly and operate with excellence
Understand the key department issues and priorities and leading by example, work with the team to ensure the design and delivery of robust solutions to address them
Lead the engineers to build and maintain high quality and reliable blueprints/templates which can be rolled out as standard to wider Engineering teams
Direct, coach and inspire technology standards and best practice within the engineering teams e.g. SOLID development principles, shift-left of testing and continuous integration/delivery
Help shape the future use of Jira & Confluence throughout the Technology department, collaborating with users to understand their needs and working with the Engineering Manager to design the target state
Own the engineering excellence of our teams e.g. behaviours, operations and technical quality
Work with the wider technology function to shape the technical strategy, adopting North Star principles
Support other engineers to produce clean, quality code through code reviews and mentoring
Drive DevSecOps best practices to automate the product development life cycle
What You'll Need
Highly creative, pro-active, enthusiastic, conscientious, detail-oriented self-starter
Highly resilient, employing a relentless can-do attitude in the face of adversity
Excellent collaboration and problem-solving skills
Exceptional presentation, inter-personal, written and communication skills
Come from a strong engineering / development background and may have moved into a tech lead/ hands-on solution architect type role
Familiar with Agile methodologies (XP, Kanban, Scrum, SAFe) and proven experience embedding agile ways of working
Experience with modern architecture patterns e.g. micro-services, micro-frontend, event-based architecture, headless UI, serverless & low code frameworks
DevOps/Automation (CI/CD) for large scale delivery using Microsoft Azure DevOps, Terraform or similar IaC
Hands on expertise with monitoring and alerting tools like New Relic, Azure Monitor and Azure App Insights
Excellent collaboration, mentoring and stakeholder management skills
Be an advocate for strategy and work with different teams to implement
Able to demonstrate creativity and innovation in applying solutions for the benefit of the customer/stakeholder
Access to professional development resources and training is provided
We have active colleague teams, such as our Women in Digital & Tech team, that support women and other underrepresented groups in tech. We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive team and encourage applications from all backgrounds.
If flexible working is important to you, then look no further! At Asda, we are proud of our culture and our commitment to flexible working. This role is Leeds based in Asda House with the flexibility to work from home several days a week depending on workload.
If you have any questions, then please email edward.simpson@asda.uk
Everything you'll love
To ensure we balance moments where we know we need to collaborate together and the need for flexibility, Asda has a hybrid way of working with a minimum 3 days a week in one of our Home Offices. Over and above this, each area of Asda may have additional requirements which may require spending more days in the office, visiting suppliers, stores or depots.
You will also get an excellent benefits package including:
- Discretionary company bonus
- Company pension up 1.5 times colleagues' contribution (Max 15%)
- Company Car allowance of £8000
- 15% colleague discount in store and online
- Free access to wellbeing services such as Wagestream
- 24/7 virtual GP, counselling, health and dental cash plans and a 24/7 employee assistance helpline, alongside discounts across a range of services and activities, from airport parking, enhanced to theme parks and cinemas
- Asda Allies Inclusion Networks – helping colleagues to make sure everybody is included and that our differences are recognised and celebrated
- Excellent parental leave policies, including maternity & adoption leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, neonatal care leave, and support for those doing fertility treatments.
We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves
Find your everything
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Why Asda?
We’re a really values-led organisation. Our mission means we encourage everyone to be open and honest. We work creatively and collaboratively with each other, valuing everyone’s input. We get on with things, we make them happen. As so many people across the UK rely on us, we have to.
Our Creating Change for Better programme tackles the major challenges facing our business and society today and guides our efforts on where we can make the biggest difference by reducing our environmental footprint, creating healthier products and supporting our communities.
Big businesses like ours offer big opportunities. With more than 1,000 stores across the UK, from superstores and Asda Living to petrol stations, as well as depots and Express stores. £60m+ in revenue taken every day. We conduct £300m worth of transactions every week. Our website handles 2 million transactions a month. And 75% of the UK shop in Asda every year.
Rewards and Recognition
Free remote GP service
Available to you, your partner and your children, 24/7, year round.
Pension
Save for retirement with up to 7% matched contributions from Asda.
Free physiotherapy consultations
Helping you and your partner take care of yourselves with 8 free sessions per year.
Colleague discounts
15% off at our stores year round – get discounts on groceries and George clothes year round, and even special double discount events.
Company car
Choose a brand new electric company car or a cash allowance within certain roles, the choice is yours.
Mortgage advice
Whether you’re a first-time buyer, renewing your mortgage, looking at buy to lets, or simply after some advice in getting a mortgage, get free* unbiased advice through the Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB), one the UKs largest mortgage brokers.
Confidential support helpline
Find free emotional, practical, and financial support that’s fully confidential, through a helpline that’s available 24/7, year round.
Cycle to work
Buy a bike through this scheme and save on tax and national insurance.
Financial support
Find financial wellbeing tools and support, including the ability to stream your pay.
Free eye tests
Head to our in store opticians for a free checkup and take care of your vision.
Bonus
Sharing our success with a discretionary bonus scheme that really rewards your contributions.
Cancer support
Guidance and support for you and your family, from before diagnosis, to treatment and beyond.
Paid time off
From holiday to sick leave and other types of leave, such as parental leave.
Mental health support
Access free mental health support for you and your family.
Support and advice with care
If you’re supporting older family or friends with care and support, find free, confidential information, expert support, and guidance about later life care for your loved ones through the Legal & General Care Concierge service.
Hybrid working
To ensure we balance moments where we know we need to collaborate together and the need for flexibility, Asda has a hybrid way of working with a minimum 3 days a week in one of our Home Offices. Each area of Asda may have additional requirements which may require spending more days in the office, visiting suppliers, stores or depots
Benefits you’ll only find here
You’ll get a 15% colleague discount and exclusive retail discounts, not to mention 15% off your food at Greggs, Burger King, Subway, and Sbarro within Asda Express stores!
Setting your loved ones up for the future
As part of the team, you’ll get life assurance.
Guaranteed contracted hours
All colleagues are guaranteed weekly contracted hours / guaranteed weekly shifts via their contract of employment which is agreed with the hiring manager.
Everything that makes us different, makes us Asda
Our colleague-led inclusion networks, including our DisAbility, Race & Ethnicity, Women at Asda, LGBTQIA+, and our Wellbeing Network, are all about giving our colleagues a space to share their stories, experiences, and perspective. Supported by our dedicated Executive Ambassadors and led by our ten passionate co-chairs, our Networks help us make changes that make life better for every colleague.
Transforming communities and changing lives
Our stores, distribution centres, and head offices work in local communities across the UK – and we want to be a real part of making a difference for them. From our amazing 400 Community Champions to our charity, The Asda Foundation, we’ve got loads of ways to help local groups and charities. Our outreach programmes, grants, and Community Champions are all about listening to our communities’ needs – to shape projects and initiatives that will make a real impact for local people.
Our commitment to the Armed Forces
Here at Asda, we’re dedicated to helping the Armed Forces rediscover their everything after service. We guarantee interviews for people who have left service and meet the minimum criteria for a role, provide leave for reservists’ training, support for cadet training, and employment opportunities for their partners. And that’s why we have over a thousand new colleagues from the Armed Forces Service Leaver Community join us every year.
Technology roles
Our Technology teams thrive on transforming data into our own platforms and in-store solutions that give us more freedom in what we can do – and make a real impact across our business.
From a culture perspective, everybody is so friendly and really helpful and really kind of energised by the scale of the task here.
Robin,
Group Technical Delivery Manager for e-Commerce,
Leeds
Tech Awards
Nicole Tinnion named in Women to Watch Index 24
Nichole Tinnion - Senior Director in Asda Technology
An absolute honour to be listed in the Women To Watch Index for 2024. It’s the first time Technology and Engineering has had its own section and I couldn’t be prouder to have been put forward, never mind selected.
I am extremely lucky to have been surrounded by great people at Asda who I learn from every day, but also by those around me at home who make me a better human every day.
For anyone who thinks they can’t be their true self everyday and be successful, trust me, you can!
Work where it works
Here at Asda, we think that the best way to work is to do it where it works best. That’s why all of our teams who are able to work from home, work with each other to figure out a pattern that works for you all, and the business needs. So you can get the most out of work, whether that’s at home, the office, or both.