Senior Manager - Development and Automation

Reference: REQ004284

As a Senior Manager - Development and Automation, you'll lead and unify our development teams, driving innovation and efficiency across our Adobe Commerce Cloud and Azure platforms.

You'll play a key part in implementing shared development principles, standardising tools and workflows, and leading automation initiatives across the software development lifecycle. Working closely with our Operations team, you'll ensure seamless integration between development, operational effectiveness, and BAU processes, delivering scalable, high-quality solutions.

This opportunity will allow you to foster collaboration and enhance efficiency within our technology teams, while working cross-functionally across the organisation.

This role is a full-time, permanent position based remotely within the UK with occasional travel to Cornwall when needed. Please note that we are not able to provide visa sponsorship, and you must reside in the UK.

You'll help us by:

Proving technical leadership within our technology function, you'll ensure best practices are adopted, optimised, and embedded across our development teams. You'll manage cross-functional development teams across multiple platforms, including Adobe Commerce Cloud and Azure. Leading the Development team, you'll work closely with them to plan and prioritise workloads, set clear objectives, and provide coaching and mentorship. By fostering a collaborative and high-performance culture, you will empower the team to succeed and continuously improve while ensuring seamless collaboration and efficiency.

You'll play a key role in ensuring the resilience, security, and scalability of all Seasalt systems and services, overseeing the development, deployment, and support of high-quality solutions. A key focus will be driving automation across development and testing processes to enhance performance, reliability, and speed to market.

Taking a technical leadership role in release processes, automated deployment workflows and DevOps, you'll optimise the speed of releases into production and enhance deployment reliability and system performance, driving a culture of continuous improvement and innovation. Collaborating with Operations teams and working cross-functionally across the business, you'll optimise workflows, stay ahead of industry trends, and oversee end-to-end software development projects, ensuring alignment with business requirements, quality standards and deadlines.

Managing departmental budgets, you will allocate resources efficiently and optimise technology expenses to ensure cost-effective and high-quality solutions. Overseeing third-party development, you'll ensure all external contributions align with Seasalt's processes, standards, quality, and cost expectations.

The skills you'll be sharing with the team:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field

or equivalent professional experience.

• A background in web development with proficiency in Magento and PHP.
• Demonstrated experience leading development teams in both Adobe Commerce Cloud and Azure environments.
• Proven experience in managing diverse development teams.
• Proven experience working with Agile/SCRUM methodologies.
• Demonstrated ability to guide and mentor developers, providing direct feedback on code quality and development approaches.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, version control systems, and automated testing frameworks.
• Knowledge of Adobe Commerce Cloud development, Azure, and DevOps practices.
• Strong leadership, communication, and collaboration skills.
• Exceptional communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work across multiple teams and stakeholders.
• Experience working in an Agile matrix structure.

Why we hope you'll love working with us:

The success of Seasalt is down to the skill and hard work of our team. We don't just want to attract the best and brightest people to come and work with us, we want you to stay and grow with us. From the moment your Seasalt journey begins, it's our pledge to support you by providing dedicated learning and development opportunities that will enhance your day-to-day working life and help you build your skills and knowledge.

As well as doing everything we can to boost your development professionally, we believe encouraging personal growth is just as important. So you can fulfil your passion and purpose, not just at work but in life, we offer a range of benefits that are designed to enhance your career and wellbeing:

• Salary up to £85,000 pa(Band 4)
• 34 days paid annual leave (including bank holidays), increasing with length of service
• Attractive 50% employee discount
• Flexible benefits allowance to personalise your benefits package
• Private Medical Scheme including 24/7 virtual GP
• Free access to our Employee Assistance Programme through Retail Trust with 24/7 support
• Pension plan with generous 7% employer contributions
• Life assurance programme
• Enhanced family leave policies
• Flexible working opportunities with our 'blended' working approach
• Learning and Development opportunities including specialist training, coaching opportunities, and professional qualification support
• Paid volunteering opportunities
• Employee networks to develop and provide support to our people, including the Inclusion Network and Culture Crew
• 100s of savings on top retailers and gym memberships through our discount hub

At Seasalt we have a brilliant team of people - they're what make Seasalt a fantastic place to work. We love to celebrate uniqueness and are committed to making Seasalt a place where everyone feels they belong. As an inclusive employer, we want to invite a diverse range of candidates to apply for our roles.

We aim to work flexibly where possible and value a range of perspectives -diversity of thought helps us to grow - so please apply if this is a role that would make you excited to come to work every day. We're happy to help with any adjustments to our recruitment process and beyond. Just drop us an email at careers@seasaltcornwall.co.uk