Overview

Engineering Squad Lead - Cloud

(Hybrid/Kraków - 1 day per week in the office)

We’re Kingfisher, a team made up of over 74,000 passionate people who bring Kingfisher - and all our other brands: Castorama, B&Q, Screwfix, Brico Dépôt and Koçtaş - to life. That’s right, we’re big, but we have ambitions to become even bigger and even better. We want to become the leading home improvement company and grow the largest community of home improvers in the world. And that’s where you come in.

At Kingfisher, our customers come from all walks of life, and so do we. We want to ensure that all colleagues, future colleagues, and applicants to Kingfisher are treated equally regardless of age, gender, marital or civil partnership status, colour, ethnic or national origin, culture, religious belief, philosophical belief, political opinion, disability, gender identity, gender expression or sexual orientation.

We are open to flexible and agile working. Therefore, we offer colleagues a blend of working from home and our office, located in Kraków. Talk to us about how we can best support you!

At Kingfisher, we value the perspectives that any new team members bring, and we want to hear from you. We encourage you to apply for one of our roles, even if you do not feel you meet 100% of the requirements.

In return, we offer an inclusive environment, where what you can achieve is limited only by your imagination! We encourage new ideas, actively support experimentation, and strive to build an environment where everyone can be their best self.

We offer a competitive benefit package and plenty of opportunities to stretch and grow your career:

• 29,000 - 37,000 PLN gross per month on an employment contract
• Private medical healthcare at LUXMED (including dentalcare) for you and your family
• Medicover sports card (Fit&More package)
• Life insurance financed by the employer
• 30-minute lunch break included in the 8-hour working day
• Work in a highly professional and stimulating atmosphere
• Training & Buddy programme that will allow you to quickly adapt to your new role
• Wellbeing programme for employees
• Co-financing of monthly tickets for the public transport in Krakow
• Comfortable working environment in the office and the possibility of home office
• Language courses, accounting courses, access to LinkedIn Learning and the possibility of co-financing studies and certification
• Employee referral programme

What’s the job?

About the role

As an Engineering Squad Lead, you will be responsible for overseeing the squad’s day-to-day activities, ensuring clear priorities, smooth execution, and high-quality outcomes. You will foster effective ways of working, promote simplicity and efficiency, and help the team remove impediments to progress.

You will collaborate closely with Principal Engineers, architects, and stakeholders across the business to ensure alignment, support decision-making, and maintain consistent delivery standards. This role is ideal for someone who is an experienced team leader, strong communicator, and proactive facilitator, committed to continuous improvement and driving impactful results in a modern cloud-focused environment.

If you’re looking for an exciting opportunity to step out of your comfort zone and make a real impact building better software, this is the job for you!

Responsibilities

• Act as the line manager for the squad, planning and coordinating day-to-day work, building a cohesive team, and ensuring delivery of customer and engineering outcomes in partnership with product owners.
• Drive continuous improvement of the squad’s effectiveness, impact, and ways of working, supported by Chapter practices and tooling, while maintaining strong eNPS results.
• Provide coaching, feedback, and guidance to team members, supporting their development and reporting progress to domain leaders.
• Communicate a clear vision for the squad, shaping its direction and impact while developing your own leadership capabilities.
• Build strong collaborative relationships across banner and group teams, ensuring effective communication and alignment on people-related or quality matters.
• Support performance management processes, including goal setting and objective reviews for chapter members.
• Foster an inclusive, collaborative squad culture that enables the growth of high-performing, engaged, and diverse teams.

What you’ll bring

• Strong technical understanding of cloud services and the requirements for operating them securely in production environments.
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code practices and the ability to participate effectively in code reviews.
• Experience with one or more major cloud providers.
• Strong practical knowledge about containerization, Kubernetes and cloud implementations like EKS and GKS.
• Solid appreciation of software development practices with a strong focus on quality.
• Broad awareness of the technology landscape, industry trends, and emerging technologies, and their relevance to modern retail organisations.
• Proven experience shaping, motivating, and driving change within large, complex, and fast-paced matrix environments.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to communicate effectively and collaborate at all levels of the organisation.
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making capabilities, able to navigate complexity and ambiguity to identify simple and effective solutions.
• Demonstrated people leadership skills, including coaching, mentoring, facilitation, and talent development.
• Excellent command of English (written and spoken)