Principal Engineer

Haven’t you heard? …Asda is separating from Walmart!

This means we are going through one of the biggest retail transformation programmes that the world has ever seen! ‘Future’ is the name for the programme that will see Asda create their new operating model, independent from Walmart. Technology will undoubtedly be one of the most ambitious parts of this work.

Your Role

As a Salesforce Principal Engineer in the eCommerce team, you will define and deliver architectural solutions, help structure technology, engineering teams and deliver technical support to eCommerce programmes and projects. This role will be key in driving the adoption of modern architecture and trends such as Microservices, DevOps and Cloud Native technology platforms.

Salesforce Principal Engineer Roles And Responsibilities

• Tracking the technical implications of changes made through development life cycle
• Writing technical documentation and stories to support the functional stories in the product backlog
• Define and manage of delivery plan of products
• Maintaining focus on backlog priorities including tech debt, vulnerabilities, bugs and features
• Work closely with the delivery squad to account for managing development throughout
• Ensuring resource efficiencies and delivery of quality tested code.
• Acting as head of escalation supporting a live service and ensuring critical issues are being resolved.
• Partner daily with product, business, UX and engineering squad players, to ensure timely resolution to any delivery challenges.
• Ensure smooth service transition with Service Architect and Date Architect co-ordination, to promote scalable and serviceable feature solutions.
• Accountable for the multi-functional technical team for their respective products.
• Working alongside third-party suppliers and monitoring service performance.

Salesforce Principal Engineer Skills And Experiences

• Salesforce Commerce Cloud
• Salesforce Service Cloud
• Salesforce Marketing Cloud
• Microsoft ADB2C
• Progressive Web Applications (PWA)
• Algolia Search, Amplience CMS and Dynamic Yield Personalisation
• DevOps/Automation (CI/CD) for large scale delivery
• Microsoft Azure
• Relational and NoSQL Databases
• Knowledge of Headless approaches, API gateways and Microservices
• Experience delivering projects with distributed teams

Hybrid Working

Work Where it Works. Our hybrid way of working gives you the choice to work where it works. This enables you to complete your daily tasks where you’ll be the most effective. It offers a mix of working from home and in an office environment that works best for you and your team. We would love to talk to you about this.

You Will Also Get An Excellent Benefits Package Including

• Company car or £8k car allowance, plus discretionary company bonus
• Company pension 1.5 times colleague’s contribution (Max 15%)
• 10% colleague discount, free parking, and many additional rewards

We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves. If you have any questions, then please email [email protected]