Job Description

Engineering Manager (Integration)

Location: Remote (UK)

Permanent

RS Group is seeking a permanent Engineering Manager (Integration) to join our team. In this role, you will be a technology leader with extensive people management experience and a proven track record of managing multi-million-pound technology platforms and delivering large-scale strategic business change.

What you'll be doing:

Deliver a range of change initiatives, including strategic projects, small changes, KTLO (Keep the Lights On), and large-scale technology changes, with a focus on time, budget, and quality. Line manage engineers, developers, and architects responsible for project delivery. Serve as the first escalation point for the team, providing guidance, removing blockers, and prioritising tasks. Cascade objectives to the team and track achievement against agreed goals throughout the year. Provide accountability for solution design and architecture for SAP and non-SAP integrations. Act as a subject matter expert for building and deploying integrations across the organisation. Collaborate with Technology teams, Solution Architects, and Process Leads to develop interfaces aligned with business requirements and industry best practices. Review and approve technical integration solutions and associated changes. Lead POCs to evaluate middleware tools and technologies for potential business value. Ensure systems are scaled, optimized, and meet business requirements and SLAs. Oversee integration application uptime and support. Maintain and manage technical debt across integration platforms to ensure a lean, maintainable environment. Ensure development processes and procedures are followed consistently. Support successful implementation of ERP and e-commerce integrations, aligned with security standards and performance guidelines. Engage with global business partners to implement best practices. Coach and mentor junior developers. Manage relationships with third-party suppliers, overseeing agreements, planning, timelines, and quality of deliverables.

About you:

The ideal candidate has strong technical expertise in Enterprise Integration and a proven track record of delivering software across the full SDLC using both Waterfall and Lean/Agile methodologies. You have experience leading technical teams throughout the delivery cycle and a solid understanding of environments and release management within the Enterprise Integration domain. You are confident guiding complex integration projects and ensuring solutions are delivered efficiently, reliably, and at scale.

What you'll need:

Proven experience in developing and implementing integration strategy and architecture. Proficiency in enterprise-grade integration technologies (e.g., IBM, SAP CPI, MuleSoft, or equivalent). Hands-on experience developing SAP interfaces using middleware platforms, including Cloud Platform Integration. Experience building integrations between Salesforce, Ariba, Workday, SuccessFactors, e-commerce platforms, and SAP. Solid understanding of monitoring CPI and using logging frameworks. Strong knowledge of adapters and connectivity technologies (File, RFC, SFTP, SOAP/REST, BAPIs, JMS, B2B, etc.). Experience in end-to-end project delivery. Familiarity with EDI X.12 and building EDI maps is a plus. Experience supervising onsite and offsite teams. Significant experience in people management and leading technical delivery teams.

The extras you'll get:

At RS, as well as the usual employee benefits you'd expect from a FTSE listed company, including annual performance bonus, enhanced maternity and paternity leave, private healthcare, in the UK&I, we've just introduced a number of new Family Friendly Policies including:
Help for people to take control of ongoing Health conditions such as diabetes or asthma with 500 a year available for monitoring & consultation Support for Neurodiverse colleagues and families with neurodiverse members with needs assessment, diagnosis and post diagnostic support for autism spectrum, ADHD and Tourette's syndrome Support for Women at different life stages from streamlined fertility support through to diagnosis and monitoring of both endometriosis and menopause Helping our LGBTQ+ community through enhanced coverage for trans colleagues, including voice coaching, facial surgery, and gender confirmation surgery Additions to Fertility coverage including IVF for lesbian couples and information/support around surrogacy and adoption for all.

We are RS

At RS we've been solving engineering problems for over 80 years: big ones, small ones, easy and difficult ones. We turn the 'what ifs' into the 'why nots', the impossible into the possible.
Our purpose? Making amazing happen for a better world.

We offer service and product solutions. We send out a parcel every 2 seconds, to over 130 countries. We provide over 700,000 in-stock and over 3 million unstocked products to more than 1.2 million customers.
We want people like you, as you are curious about things, you like doing things differently and also in a human way with empathy. Because that's exactly how we partner with people - our customers, suppliers, colleagues and communities - to solve problems.
We'll also invest in your development and wellbeing - because building a more diverse and inclusive culture, being ethical, responsible, and committed to our Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) action plan is at the heart of everything we do.
Come and join us and we'll help you to think big, do more and unleash your brilliance, so you do amazing things too.