Senior POS Engineer

Senior POS Engineer

About the role:

As a Senior Engineer in the Customer Solutions function you will be responsible for the engineering activity on our Point of Sale technologies. Operating in an agile team you will design, implement and manage change to our Oracle Simphony estate.

SSP is transforming its technology landscape and driving digital as a core component of our strategy. Within Customer Solutions we are running 2 key strategic programmes, a global POS replacement programme introducing Oracle Simphony across our global unit estate. The 2nd is a portfolio of digital solutions to support customer propositions and journeys, helping drive improved experience and greater convenience.

You will play a key role across both programmes by delivering a great technology product across our POS functionality and UI, enterprise data management, digital integration and operational reporting capabilities.

If you are a team player who likes to drive change in a dynamic and innovative environment whilst unlocking business value through developing and configuring great technology – this is the role for you!

What you’ll be doing:

Business engagement and acumen - You will spend a meaningful amount of time learning how the business ticks, seeking to understand the challenges and opportunities that exist and how customer and digital solutions can help drive value. This will mean establishing and managing great relationships around the business and influencing the digital and technology agenda.

Technology research, knowledge and innovation - You will evangelise and innovate, bringing to life new customer and digital opportunities with technology.

End to end architecture - You will be responsible for the end to end application, integration and technology architecture across all customer solutions.

Architecture deliverables - You will create and manage a set of customer solution architecture assets including HLD, data and integration architecture, patterns and standards.

Collaboration - You will influence and collaborate across the technology and broader business functions to problem solve, ensure key design decisions are made and our end to end architecture is understood.

Team engagement - You will help drive ways of working in the team that enables us to deliver customer and digital technology product capability to market at speed and to a high quality.

Mentoring - You will coach and mentor engineering teams to support the development of a high performing team.

Delivery - You will work closely with the head of customer solutions project and programmes to ensure robust delivery approach and plans, and support successful execution.

Governance - You will be responsible for introducing and running the appropriate architecture governance across the customer solutions portfolio.

Community of Practice - You will be a key member of the SSP architecture community and contribute to the continued shaping and development of the architecture practice.

To be successful in this role you will need:

5+ years proven experience as a POS engineer

3+ years experience with Oracle Simphony

Experience configuring POS for a multi country business

Experience using development management tooling e.g. Jira

Experience operating in agile teams

Experience both developing and supporting/managing POS solutions

A background in multi brand food and beverage desirable

Understanding of end-to-end business processes and implications to POS solutions