Associate Principal Software Engineer

Posted:
3/17/2025, 3:51:14 AM

Location(s):
England, United Kingdom ⋅ Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Experience Level(s):
Expert or higher ⋅ Senior

Field(s):
Software Engineering

dunnhumby is the global leader in Customer Data Science, empowering businesses everywhere to compete and thrive in the modern data-driven economy. We always put the Customer First.

 

Our mission: to enable businesses to grow and reimagine themselves by becoming advocates and champions for their Customers. With deep heritage and expertise in retail – one of the world’s most competitive markets, with a deluge of multi-dimensional data – dunnhumby today enables businesses all over the world, across industries, to be Customer First.

 

dunnhumby employs nearly 2,500 experts in offices throughout Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas working for transformative, iconic brands such as Tesco, Coca-Cola, Meijer, Procter & Gamble and Metro.

We’re looking for an Associate Principal Software Engineer who expects more from their career. It’s a chance to extend and improve dunnhumby’s Principal Engineers’ team. It’s an opportunity to work with a market-leading business to explore new opportunities for us and influence global retailers.

Joining our team, you’ll work with world class and passionate people to own and shape the direction of a significant area of value, whilst operating across multiple domains, defining contexts & boundaries and articulate why behaviour should live in a given context.    

What is expected of you:

  • Be recognised as very knowledgeable by your peers in your specialist areas.
  • Build, establish and grow relationships with all engineers
  • Be proactive and resourceful
  • Identify areas of excellence and devise ways to share and promote that best practice
  • Be hands on in your specialist areas
  • Create an environment of everyone contributing and having a say in engineering direction
  • Find ways to contribute and share knowledge across the company
  • Develop and grow our talent. Identify ways to support, help and mature the engineering
  • function
  • Effect change using your soft skills such as influencing

What is essential in the role:

  • An experienced and passionate engineer, with both technical depth and breadth.
  • You can take the initiative, evaluate risks and drive continuous improvement to get the best outcomes, trusting your judgement and analysis to contribute to complex decision making.
  • You’ll need the ability to become part of your teams and support them by leading from experience in what they’re doing.
  • Be strong in both technical and Agile mentorship, guiding on the engineering vision as well as helping them to increase their performance.
  • Whether you specialise in software, data, infrastructure, or network, you’ll have programming language expertise and experience of software design and implementation.
  • Listening and interpersonal skills will be vital to build relations and influence. Your ability to adapt and embrace the challenge will be a good help in your journey through discovering the diversity of our tech and setting a path to big ambitions and bold changes.

What you can expect from us

We won’t just meet your expectations. We’ll defy them. So you’ll enjoy the comprehensive rewards package you’d expect from a leading technology company. But also, a degree of personal flexibility you might not expect.  Plus, thoughtful perks, like flexible working hours and your birthday off.

You’ll also benefit from an investment in cutting-edge technology that reflects our global ambition. But with a nimble, small-business feel that gives you the freedom to play, experiment and learn.

And we don’t just talk about diversity and inclusion. We live it every day – with thriving networks including dh Gender Equality Network, dh Proud, dh Family, dh One and dh Thrive as the living proof.  We want everyone to have the opportunity to shine and perform at your best throughout our recruitment process. Please let us know how we can make this process work best for you. For an informal and confidential chat please contact stephanie.winson@dunnhumby.com to discuss how we can meet your needs. 

Our approach to Flexible Working

At dunnhumby, we value and respect difference and are committed to building an inclusive culture by creating an environment where you can balance a successful career with your commitments and interests outside of work.

We believe that you will do your best at work if you have a work / life balance. Some roles lend themselves to flexible options more than others, so if this is important to you please raise this with your recruiter, as we are open to discussing agile working opportunities during the hiring process.

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