Engineering Lead

Role overview: Engineering Lead  Waterloo - Hybrid Working Full Time Fixed Term Contract - 12 Months Grade 5   At Currys we’re united by one passion: to help everyone enjoy amazing technology. As the UK’s best-known retailer of tech, we’re proud of the service our customers receive – and it’s all down to our team of 25,000 caring and committed colleagues. Working as one team, we learn and grow together, celebrating the big and small moments that make every day amazing. We are looking for a technically experienced Engineering Lead to join our Engineering function and take ownership of engineering quality, standards and delivery assurance across a complex, multi-partner landscape. This is a hands-on leadership role. The Engineering Lead will be equally comfortable presenting technical risk to senior stakeholders and conducting code reviews with delivery teams. The split is intentional - we need someone who leads by doing, not just directing. The role sits at the centre of how we build and govern integration at Currys, covering the full stack from .Net middleware and Azure infrastructure through to frontend and downstream system connectivity. You will set the engineering bar, hold partners to it, and begin building the internal engineering capability that will carry this function forward. This role will suit a senior engineer who has built and governed high-volume, resilient systems - ideally in retail or ecommerce - and who knows from experience what production-grade engineering looks like. Someone who designs for failure, builds in observability from day one, and treats CI/CD as a discipline. Role overview: Engineering Standards & Code Quality Own and enforce engineering standards across all delivery partners and internal teams - covering code quality, patterns, security, and maintainability. Conduct and lead code reviews; provide clear, actionable feedback. Define and document engineering principles for Integration Services, ensuring they are understood and applied consistently. Integration Design & Technical Assurance Provide technical assurance across integration design and implementation - ensuring services are robust and well-documented. Review and challenge integration approaches across .Net middleware, Azure services, and connected downstream systems. Ensure that resilience, self-healing and scalability are designed in from the start. CI/CD, Pipelines & Release Governance Own the engineering approach to CI/CD. Define and implement pipeline standards, branching strategy, and environment management across the function. Drive maturity across release governance - ensure release processes are repeatable, low-risk and well-understood by all partners. Conduct technical audits across delivery partners; produce actionable findings and hold partners to agreed improvement plans. Partner Governance & Internal Capability Building Work closely with external delivery partners to set clear engineering…