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Technical Lead (Product Team)New Look
10 days ago
  • LevelSenior
  • ProfessionsTechnical Director, Product Manager, Software Engineer
  • TypeFull Time
  • LocationLondon, United Kingdom

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Description

From our first store in the 1960s, a little Taunton shop with great clothes and even better prices, to an omni-channel business serving millions of customers… we're New Look.
Our purpose is always to inspire That New Look Feeling and we believe that starts with us. Our values motivate us every day: we play to win, we’re customer-obsessed and we work as one.
The Role:
The Technical Lead of a Product Team provides guidance to the development team, makes architectural decisions for the product within the overall architectural guardrails, and ensures the scalability, reliability, and maintainability of the product, including systems built and owned.
The TL works in partnership with the Product Manager to lead a healthy, high functioning team that can deliver at pace. They help the PM understand the technical complexity of potential improvements to the product, allowing estimates to be produced which aid capacity planning within the team. They are considered a senior engineer capable of mentoring more junior members and someone who can collaborate closely with architects.
Responsibilities:
  • Co-Lead one of our cross-functional, cross-platform Product teams (aka “squads”) to become high-performing
  • Work hand-in-hand with the PM to make decisions on behalf of the team around ways of working, delivery and prioritisation.
  • Own the technical roadmap for the product working within the wider Architecture and Engineering community.
  • Work with the team to provide estimation of the work required to fulfil the roadmap.
  • Provide technical guidance and mentorship to team members, helping them to better understand their assigned work and growing their technical skills in the process.
  • Help remove technical blockers that inhibit delivery – eg. ensuring every developer on your team has the right access to the third-party services that we use
  • Identify and address technical debt proactively to prevent it from accumulating and hindering future development
  • Help design systems that can scale horizontally or vertically to accommodate future growth.
  • Implement strategies to enhance the reliability and security of the product, including fault tolerance, monitoring, and disaster recovery.
  • Ensure that the codebase is maintainable by following coding standards, reviews, modular design, and proper documentation­
About You:
  • Shows great leadership by putting the team's needs and goals above personal interests.
  • Understands various agile methodologies (such as Scrum and Kanban) and has built high performing teams
  • You're an advocate for cross-functional ways of working and set clear expectations for how product, design and engineering should operate in that model
  • Able to understand and discuss technical concepts, so you’re able to lead on discussion around potential trade-offs of new ideas, with a focus on speed of delivery.
  • Proven track record of taking ownership and successfully delivering results in challenging environments. You can simplify complex ideas and maximise business value.
  • You create a positive team spirit, focus on team engagement and embody the New Look values.
  • You'll demonstrate excellent communication skills, both verbally and in written form. An expert in the power of Slack to drive asynchronous communication and culture change.
  • Demonstrable proficiency and prior experience in security minded designs, implementations, and integrations.
  • Experience with backend (Java Spring MVC/Boot, Microsoft SQL Server etc.) and front-end applications and technologies (React, Typescript, NextJS, iOS, Android). (desirable)
  • Experience working with teams using agile methodologies, ideally with Jira and Confluence
  • Experience of OOTB SAP Commerce capabilities, configuration and use of these. Can articulate the use of OOTB capability vs integration and customisation efforts with the related benefits and issues (desirable)
  • Understanding and experience with SDLC methodologies (such as Waterfall, Spiral, Agile software development, Rapid prototyping, DevOps, Platform Engineering and SRE)
  • Experience working in the fashion retail industry (desirable)
Why New Look?
The amazing people, the fashion – there are so many reasons to love working at New Look. We prioritise development, offering training to support your progression, so you can be your absolute best and achieve your goals.
Being part of the New Look Team means you get access to a great range of benefits & perks …
👗 You’ll *love* our generous staff discount – 40% off for you and a loved one, and 25% off for up to 12 friends and family members!
🛍 Get special access to hundreds of discounts from top retailers and gyms, along with free workout classes, on our rewards platform Runway.
💰 Plan for you retirement while you work with our contributory private pension scheme.
💰 We’re all about celebrating our success, so we have a profit-related bonus scheme.
🚓 Upgrade your commute with our company car allowance – you can use it to buy, lease or fund your current vehicle.
🧸 Our family-friendly policies include enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave, and shared parental leave.
👩🏻‍⚕️ Receive quick access to consultations and treatments with AXA Private Medical Scheme, paid for by us.
✈ Big trip on the cards? Unlock extra leave with our buy more holiday scheme.
🎈 Celebrate YOU! Enjoy an extra paid day off on your birthday each year.
🚲 Do your bit for the environment and save money with our Cycle2Work scheme.
🚆 Spread the cost of your commute with interest-free season ticket loans.
🥣 Running late? No worries, enjoy a free breakfast on us!
❤ We're proud to partner with the Retail Trust and Fashion & Textile Children's Trust
Apply now to find out more!
We pride ourselves on being a flexible employer. Although this is a full-time role, our colleagues work a range of patterns. If you have a specific pattern in mind, we're keen to discuss this with you in line with the output needed for the role.

Skills Required

  • Product
  • Agile
  • Communication Skills

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