Engineering Team Leader - Hatfield, United Kingdom - Ocado Group

Ocado Group

Verified Company

Hatfield, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

About Us

We champion a value-led culture to get our teams working at their very best and to help create a collaborative working environment that our people love.

Core values of
Trust, Autonomy, Craftsmanship, Collaboration and
Learn Fast help drive our innovative culture
.

What would I be doing?

As an Engineering Team Leader, you will manage a team of Software Engineers, and be responsible for the products and services they provide.

You will take care of the performance and wellbeing of the team members, keeping them aligned and giving them sufficient autonomy to do their work.

You will be responsible for the timely delivery of projects, with the expected level of quality and fulfilling stakeholder expectations.

You will typically report to an Engineering Manager (EM), and be paired with a Product Manager (PM).

What does the team do?
WCS is aimed at hiding the complexities of communication with the hardware, and abstracting layout details of specific warehouses. The system tracks movement of all containers on conveyors (e.g. going through various stations), and controls hardware at junctions to route containers to their destinations.

Roles & Responsibilities
Accountable for all aspects of the products and services owned by the team, including appropriate timelines and quality. Responsible for the effectiveness of the team, and the wellbeing of the team members.

Leadership:

Work with the team to put effective and sustainable processes in place, including ways to ensure innovation, experimentation and continuous improvement.
Partner with Product on prioritisation, forward planning, forecasting, tracking and progress reporting.
Inspire the other team members and be someone who is respected by the team.
Work actively to build good relationships and trust between the team and other stakeholders, embedding a 'one Ocado' approach.
Manage upwards effectively, making sure your Engineering Manager and Head of Engineering are informed of progress, celebrating team successes and making key risks visible.
Set clear goals and expectations for people in the team, providing timely feedback to support their development and improving their performance.
Set goals at a team level that cascade from the department / stream goals.
Coach team members and create a healthy environment that facilitates highperforming teams and is aligned with Ocado Values and Ocado Technology Principles.
Establish a respectful and trusted working relationship with your Product counterpart to allow effective decision making, and facilitate escalations from the team.
Represent the team in forums (operational meetings, postmortems, etc.) with the support of Team Members when appropriate.

What we are looking for:

Experience in managing teams
Highly organised and able to plan, manage, track and deliver effectively
Excellent understanding of Lean and Agile principles and practices
Passionate about developing highquality enterprise software
Excellent spoken and written English
Experience in Java 8+ or other OO languages
Happy to take an active role in supporting the business needs

Bonus points for:

Experience in software design
Experience in using AWS
Experience working in a continuous delivery environment
Experience working with microservices
Experience in using databases and SQL, and the connectivity from Java (e.g. Hibernate)
Experience in frontend development