Burberry Senior Engineering Manager

About Burberry

Burberry Limited, a quintessentially British luxury fashion house, is renowned for its innovative designs and commitment to quality. As part of the global luxury conglomerate, Burberry offers a dynamic and inclusive work environment where creativity and excellence are at the forefront. The company is dedicated to fostering a culture that encourages diversity and sustainability, making it a leader in the luxury industry.

Role & Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership across assigned scrums, setting and enforcing development standards, code quality expectations, and engineering best practices for permanent and third-party engineering resources.
• Provide robust engineering estimates and capacity assessments to the Product Manager to support prioritisation and trade-off decisions; maintain a clear view of what is achievable in each sprint and planning horizon, and flag risks to commitments early.
• Contribute to demand shaping and backlog refinement with the Product Manager and Solution Architect, assessing technical feasibility, complexity, and risks so backlog items are realistic and understood before sprint delivery.
• Own the engineering approach for delivering domain backlog items, making day-to-day implementation decisions within solution architecture guardrails and taking accountability for quality, maintainability, and technical debt.
• Oversee engineering delivery across the domain, ensuring sprint commitments are achievable, technical dependencies are managed, and delivery pace is sustained.
• Manage and challenge third-party partners within the scrums, scrutinising estimates, technical approaches, and output quality to ensure value from delivery partners.
• Own relationships with technology solution vendors in the domain, ensuring service and technical performance, roadmap alignment, and agreed service expectations; lead regular vendor performance reviews and QBRs with Product, Delivery, Architecture, Procurement, and relevant business stakeholders; oversee contract renewals, extensions, and material commercial changes, ensuring these are identified and progressed promptly.
• Work with solution architects to translate technical designs into deliverable engineering plans and ensure implementation follows agreed architectural patterns and enterprise guardrails.
• Coordinate engineers and delivery roles across scrums, allocating skills and capacity to backlog priorities and escalating resourcing gaps to the Senior Delivery Manager.
• Own the technical quality of scrum output, overseeing code reviews, testing coverage, release readiness, and production stability.
• Contribute technical input to agile ceremonies across assigned scrums, including sprint planning and backlog refinement; ensure engineering readiness for committed work, present outputs in sprint reviews, and drive engineering improvements through retrospectives.
• Take accountability for production support and incident resolution within the domain, ensuring prompt responses, root-cause identification, and delivery of fixes; minimise business impact and feed lessons learned into engineering practices.
• Identify and drive engineering innovation and improvement in line with the Tech Forward Digital Strategy, including automation, reusable components, shift-left testing, platform simplification, and emerging technologies such as AI and agentic capabilities to accelerate delivery, reduce cost, or enhance the digital product.
• Partner with the Security function to establish secure coding practices and manage adherence to agreed security standards.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in an engineering leadership, technical lead, or lead developer role within a technology delivery environment.
• Strong technical depth across relevant technology stacks, with the ability to scrutinise partner engineering output and challenge estimates credibly.
• Experience managing mixed engineering teams of permanent staff and third-party delivery partners.
• Comfort with hands-on technical oversight as well as people and delivery leadership responsibilities.
• Effective communication skills, including the ability to explain technical complexity clearly to product and delivery stakeholders.
• A proactive approach to driving engineering standards, quality practices, and continuous improvement across scrums.
• Familiarity with modern development practices, including CI/CD, automated testing, and agile delivery.
• Experience with one or more of Burberry's core platform technologies, such as SAP, Salesforce, Contentstack, Databricks, or integration middleware, is preferred.

Skills

Culture

Burberry fosters a creative and inclusive workplace culture that values diversity and sustainability. The company is committed to being a force for good, driving industry change and championing community engagement.

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