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Every week we move millions of products to our customers at record speeds. Brilliant customer experiences at this kind of pace, require fresh and appealing products to be available whenever and however our customers shop with us. And in this area of our business, we help to make sure that happens.

By engineering innovative, smart technology, we put the tools in our colleagues’ hands to power a global supply chain. Whether it’s wine from New Zealand or milk from the local dairy farm, our tech performs. We solve problems at scale. We process billions of records, predicting and planning to make our customers lives easier. We keep our warehouses and stores operating smoothly around the clock, because what’s important to our customers, is important to us.

As a Senior Engineer (.Net), you’ll be part of one of our Engineering teams, applying architectural and engineering principles to define and deliver technology that will better customer experiences, improve efficiency and reduce business costs, helping us to lower prices. You’ll support your team by enabling performance, compliance and risk management by sharing your expertise, judgement and passion for delivering quality products for customers.

In the role, you’ll own the design and development of large-scale services with high performance using technologies such as the latest .Net Standards, React JS, Microsoft SQL or MongoDB, Kubernetes & Docker - building and implementing into the Azure platform. This includes embracing serverless functions and an event driven .

We use a variety of tech here and you need to be willing to pick up new tools and techniques. We’d also like you to be yourself – analytical, curious and unafraid to challenge the status quo. You’ll be a role model for best practices, championing a customer centric mindset with a passion for finding creative ways to solve problems, mentoring fellow engineers as a progressive member of the engineering community.

More about the role

• You will own the design, build and support of large-scale high performant Azure services using technologies such as the latest .Net Core Standards, React JS, SQL or MongoDB together with containerised environments using Kubernetes & Docker.
• The in-house coding may include building products with user interfaces, so some experience of front-end development is necessary.
• This also includes the use of serverless functions and event driven s using Kafka to enable near real time data transfers.
• You will also lead the implementation of technologies in Azure making use of build and release pipelines, functionapps, logicapps and hosted databases.
• It will be up to you to drive the product technical roadmap through a deep understanding of technology and broader understanding of roadmaps across corporate divisions.
• You will lead the design and support of services and internal frameworks that enhance Sainsbury’s capabilities.
• You will lead, guide, support and enable performance within a team (sized 6-8 including 3rd party developers) by providing technical knowledge, coaching and best practice ideas.
• We will look to you to contribute to optimising our OPEX and CAPEX spend by controlling costs and implementing cost efficiencies in software build and support.

More about you

• Possess programming language expertise in C#, Script, relational and non-relational database technologies with a deep knowledge of Azure implementations to include both front end and backend development.
• Deep expertise in engineering practice, including engineering designs, patterns and anti-patterns and current architectural best practices.
• Proven experience of software design and implementation to include security, , infrastructure as code, together with builds and the components needed to support such designs.
• Fully aware of the infrastructure possibilities of the Azure environment.
• Self-driven and constantly striving to improve your team, division and peers
• A drive for the advocacy of /lean delivery methodologies.
• A passion for delivering solutions to customers, owning the whole Software Delivery Life Cycle and living the DevSecOps principles.
• A passion for enhancing your knowledge and evidencing curity in emerging technologies.
• Display empathy and understanding in supporting colleagues in the team to deliver.

As well as lots of on-the-job training and endless opportunities, you’ll get:

• Colleague discount across our multi-brands – Sainsbury’s, Argos and Habitat
• Holiday allowance
• Bonus scheme
• Pension plan
• Special offers on gym memberships, restaurants, holidays, retail vouchers and more.

Work-life balance is important to us, so we offer our colleagues as much flexibility as possible in line with the needs of their role. We trust them to decide how, where and when they work, combining remote and collaborative working with a flexible approach to hours, giving them plenty of time and space for life outside of work whilst delivering against our business goals.