About us

We're a truly international company, fourth largest in our industry and operating across 119 markets. An inclusive, innovative global FMCG business supported by 26,000 employees. As we embrace a new era of growth, we are transforming. Our ways of working and culture are driven by a challenger mindset, constantly questioning the status quo where people can bring their best selves to work. Our agility and collaboration are driving our ambitions, innovation and success all supported by our award-winning development programmes that creates exciting and rewarding career opportunities for all.

As we move forward, our consumers will be at the heart of what we do, evolving to needs and expectations and committing to a more meaningful contribution to harm reduction by building a successful NGP business. Integral to our long-term success is our sustainability strategy, behaving responsibly and supporting our ambitions, all underpinned by high governance.

Encouraging inclusion at local levels and supporting a developing and robust diversity agenda globally, we’re fully committed to creating and maintaining an environment that celebrates and respects difference.

The Role

The role of Automation Team Lead sits in our global e-commerce platform and is reporting directly to the Global DevOps lead. Your role will involve building strong relationships with other functions and the wider business. You will be a critical member of the team, contributing to the success of the overall function.

In this position you will be responsible for execution of Automation development and integration activities together with your automation team. You are expected to manage the delivery of Platform and system automation as well as optimization through design, build, implementation, and deployment solutions. As a Automation Team Lead, you are a technical automation delivery expert who is expected to ensure that your delivery portfolio meets the required outputs and solutions, on time, within budget, meeting business requirements and in compliance with relevant development standards.

This role also is accountable for providing support of digital assets including break fix and root cause analysis. You will work in close collaboration with Head of Development and Testing as well as Architects and you are responsible to identify efficiency gain and automation opportunities and create automation roadmap to ensure deployment can be done faster and time to market is reduce. The Automation Team Lead will work in collaboration with architects to ensure that the architectural vision in the specific domain is defined and executed.

Key Accountabilities

• Responsible for providing coaching and expertise on development in the automation domain
• Managing the overall build of platform automation and solutions which meet optimization requirements and in compliance with all relevant standards
• Provide regular and effective progress updates to ensure the management of any delivery risks or issues
• Oversee and direct support where Developers provide root cause analysis and service restoration in relation to the digital assets
• Provide operational oversight and technical leadership to a team of Developers to ensure digital solutions are delivered on time and within budget
• Collaborate to ensure that digital solutions are built with best practices, reusability of code and an understanding of how to leverage technology to best meet business needs
• Work closely with relevant teams to ensure alignment and coordination
• Accountable for meeting all governance standards
• Responsible for planning of, tracking and reporting of technical delivery
• Responsible for the technical execution of the product backlog

Skills & Experience Required

• 5-10 years of relevant experience in systems and applications development and automation including systems and application analysis and design
• Proven track record leading a development team
• Experience with architecting solutions for highly scalable, highly available systems
• Experience in implementing quality guidelines, standards and procedures
• Strong communication skills and ability to distill complicated topics for the tech team
• Advanced knowledge of technology architecture, with proven design skills
• Proven experience working in cloud first (native) environments
• Experience with .NET and system automation tools
• Excellent understanding of asynchronous programming
• Experience with Azure cloud platform
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD best practices
• Excellent computer science foundations (data structures, algorithms, software design)
• Proven hands on experience with building large-scale, performing system -end development
• Proven track record working in a cross-functional, agile team

What We Offer

Imperial Brands offer a competitive package of salary, bonus scheme, pension, holidays as well as hybrid work.

Next Steps

Interested applicants should apply with their CV highlighting their suitability for the role.

Everyone Belongs

Everyone belongs in Imperial. We are proud of being a truly inclusive organisation.

We encourage and welcome applications from people of all ages, genders, ethnicities, nationalities, disabilities, sexual orientation, religions, or beliefs and of neuro divergence. We give fair and equal consideration to all our applicants.

We welcome talented people with stories to tell, who can bring fresh thinking, new ideas and different experiences to our business and believe in enabling every person to succeed; to deliver their best performance and realise their full potential.

We understand that these are the things that make you ‘you’ and if you join us, we’ll support you in being able and confident to share your whole self with us.  

We look forward to hearing from you!

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