John Lewis Partnership

Company Name: John Lewis Partnership
Job Title: Information Security Engineering Lead
Job Description: About The Role

Join the John Lewis Partnership’s Information Security Engineering team and play a crucial role in protecting our customers, Partners and business from evolving cyber threats. The John Lewis Partnership’s Information Security strategy is bold and ambitious. We provide a collection of security services, delivered through people, processes and technology. Working collaboratively, these services ensure that customers can shop with us efficiently, safely and securely, every single day. A key component of this is the Threat Defence team. A group of Partners (employees) who play a vital role in the defence of our systems and data from cyber attacks. This is a team with a very broad set of responsibilities, including the monitoring of threats and vulnerabilities and the engineering and testing of key security defences. We’re looking for an experienced Information Security Engineering Lead to take on a lead role within our Security Engineering service. In this role you’ll be overseeing the delivery of new security capabilities and ensuring that our Security Operations Centre remains equipped to defend against the latest cyber security threats. This is a fantastic opportunity to get hands-on with market leading next-generation cyber security tools where you'll be empowered to lead and innovate within an agile, supportive and collaborative team environment.

At a glance

Expected Salary - £65,000 - £85,000 depending on experience
Contract type - Permanent
Working pattern/flexible working - This role is based at the Bracknell Head Office, with an opportunity for hybrid working. Your time will primarily be split between Bracknell (current normal expectation 1 day per week) and working from home. There will also be an expectation to infrequently visit other locations as the need arises.
Our Infosec team currently works from the office every Tuesday to connect and on a more ad-hoc basis to attend key meetings, but again the frequency is dependent on the business needs.
There will be a need for on-call support as part of a callout rota, where you will be expected to be available for out of hours support approximately one week in 5. Specific rota requirements can be planned around leave and other personal commitments.

What you’ll be doing:

In this highly technical role, you’ll be responsible for developing and maintaining our security operations platforms and using your technical expertise and experience with security tooling to inform our overall Information Security strategy.
You’ll bring your technical leadership to projects, leading the delivery of new security tooling as a respected Information Security expert and working with technology teams to ensure that new technologies are sufficiently secure and protected.
You’ll oversee a range of continuous improvement activities for our existing platforms and will work closely with other members of the Security Engineering service in an agile way to ensure we continue to drive value out of our investments.
You’ll be a technical leader in the Information Security team and will use your experience and knowledge to guide, inspire and support other members of the team.
You’ll develop positive relationships with colleagues and senior leaders from technology teams outside of Information Security and will work closely with vendors to ensure a secure Partnership.

What you’ll have (Essential Skills):

Hands-on experience in a senior Security Engineering role, overseeing and leading a group of Security Engineers.
Demonstrable experience in delivering and/or maintaining EDR tooling. Specific experience leading the deployment or engineering of SentinelOne would be of particular benefit.
A proven track record working as part of an agile delivery team, following agile best practices such as Scrum or Kanban.
Experience collaborating with development, operations and infrastructure teams, preferably in a security context
A working knowledge of security best practice, including frameworks such as Mitre ATT&CK and NIST.

What else you could bring (Desirable Skills):

Proficiency in working with or developing SIEM tooling and SIEM detections/alerts.
Proficiency in Google SecOps (Google Chronicle) would be particularly beneficial.
In-depth knowledge of network security, including principles such as zero trust and network security tooling such as zScaler.
Experience securing cloud platforms and applications using tooling such as CASB, CSPM, SSPM or similar. Specific knowledge of GCP and Google Security Command Center would be beneficial.
Formal accreditation in Information Security such as a related degree, ISC2 CISSP or similar.

Additional Information

The application form consists of a CV upload, followed by application questions. Please save the application questions to a Google docs before entering on Workday for future reference.
Internal applicants please copy paste this link on to the browser for job outline - https://bit.ly/InfosecEnggLead

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About The Partnership

We’re the largest employee owned business in the UK and home of our cherished brands, John Lewis and Waitrose. We’re not just employees, we’re Partners, driven by our purpose to build a happier world. As we look to our future, there’s never been a more exciting time to join us.

We’re ruthlessly focused on being brilliant at retail. We continue to innovate, adapt and diversify. Never Knowingly Undersold on price, quality and service in John Lewis and passionately serving food-lovers in Waitrose.

As Partners we all share the responsibility of ownership and in its rewards. We use our voices to contribute to our success, working together through the good and challenging times, holding true to our behaviours and treating everyone with kindness and respect.

We all own making the Partnership somewhere we belong. Embracing our differences and creating an environment where we’re free to be ourselves and can THRIVE. Growing ourselves individually, and as a collective.

As Partners, we make all the difference. And, we all own it.

Important points to note:

It’s important to note that some of our roles are subject to pre-employment vetting. If required, you’ll find out more about vetting throughout the recruitment process and we encourage you to complete any vetting documents quickly to avoid delays.

We also recommend that you apply as soon as possible as vacancies can close early if we see a high number of applicants.

We want all of our Partners to have a good work-life balance and we support flexible working. This might mean flexible or compressed hours, job sharing or shorter hour contracts, where possible. Please discuss this further with the hiring manager during your interview.

Bracknell, United Kingdom

Hybrid

20-03-2025

Company Name: John Lewis Partnership
Job Title: Staff Quality Engineer (Waitrose Apps)
Job Description: About The Role

Our Engineering practice includes 60+ teams, working on everything from Cloud Platforms to Mobile Apps, from eCommerce functionality to Machine Learning.

Our Engineers work collaboratively and share knowledge, and learning is extremely important to us.

We are driving a culture of whole team accountability for quality and continuous testing and are looking for people who can help us do that. Initially, as a Staff Quality Engineer you will be embedded into a software engineering product team composed typically of a Delivery Lead and a mixture of iOS and Android Engineers delivering our mobile apps.

As well as creating and executing some of the team’s checks, your role in the team will be to mentor others in testing practice; coach them to adopt and improve their quality approaches including deployment approaches and observability; review and contribute to the team’s codebase and pipeline configuration; help the team with their system of work from first business need to monitoring services in production. At all times you will also have an eye on what good looks like to the customer / user.

As a senior member of our Quality Engineering Community you will mentor more junior members and help them with their personal development. You will work with a diverse range of technical and non-technical stakeholders which will require excellent communication skills. Advocating for improved engineering approaches will also require strong stakeholder management capability.

There are opportunities to become a people manager for your fellow engineers if that is something that appeals to you.

Learning new skills is extremely important to us. Engineers are expected to continuously improve their skills and keep abreast of the latest technologies and techniques regardless of their experience or job grade. In return for this commitment you will be given the resources and support you need to help you with your learning journey.

At a glance

Contract type - This position is a permanent contract.
Working pattern/flexible working - We know flexible working is important to you, and it is important to us too. The Partnership has adopted a blended working approach meaning you'll be able to work a mixture between the office and home based upon your personal needs whilst balancing the needs of the business.
Location - This role is based at our Bracknell Head Office campus. Please note, any cost incurred as a result of travel to the office is the responsibility of the successful candidate. There is no travel allowance for this role. There is also a responsibility to visit our John Lewis branches when necessary. You will be able to claim travel expenses for these journeys.

Essential Skills/experience You’ll Need

For this role we are looking for a Staff Quality Engineer who has extensive knowledge, skills and experience of delivering native mobile apps for iOS and / or Android devices.

Must have extensive experience of Quality Engineering techniques used to build large scale apps in a complex business environment, leading engineering decisions and influencing a wide range of stakeholders.
Knowledge of architectural patterns used to build mobile applications.
Practical experience of Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery of native mobile apps and associated back end services.
Coaching teams in use of Continuous Testing and shift left / shift right approaches.
Thinking critically about engineering approaches, using questioning techniques to lead team discussions about quality risks and appropriate responses.
Leading elaboration activities (such as three amigos sessions) to ensure specificity, consistency and testability of requirements and acceptance criteria.
Reading and writing coded solutions for a variety of engineering needs:
pairing with developers to understand and jointly enhance unit, functional and other coded tests
developing testing utilities
developing and maintaining code in pipelines
creating and maintaining coded checks such as native mobile test automation or automated tests for back-end APIs.
Working knowledge of modern testing tools and frameworks for testing mobile apps, preferably XCTest / XCUITest and / or Espresso.
Analysing mobile non-functional risks (performance, resource usage, variable bandwidth, device compatibility, accessibility etc.) and advising on how these risks should be mitigated.
Understanding operational requirements (such as resilience and observability) and how solutions are implemented and tested.

Desirable Skills/experience You May Have

Experience of Backend for Frontend (BFF) patterns
Experience of solutions built using Microservice Architectures and of cloud infrastructure such as GCP or AWS.
Understanding of mobile security threats and experience of automated security testing.
There are opportunities to become a people manager for your fellow engineers if that is something that appeals to you.

Benefits Of The Partnership And The Role

- Hybrid Working.
- Full - time working holiday entitlement 25 days holiday, plus public and bank holidays (this is pro-rated for part time hours).
- Excellent work life balance, including focus on well being and flexible working and our marketing leading equal parenthood leave Policy
- Defined Contribution pension scheme where your contributions will be matched by the Partnership (up to 8% of pay) and, after three years’ service, you’ll receive an additional Partnership contribution of 4% of pay, regardless of whether you pay in or not
- You’ll get Partnership discount in store and online once you complete your Earning Membership period. That’s 25% off in John Lewis & Partners (12% off electrical products, some exclusions apply) and 20% in Waitrose & Partners (some exclusions apply) You’ll also be able to nominate someone you live with to share your discount.
- Simple cycle to work support scheme
- We’re really proud of our exclusive hotels based in some of Britain’s most beautiful areas and once you’ve been with us for three months, you’re welcome to explore them
- Health Care cover
- Learn more about our extensive range of exciting benefits that you could enjoy when you join us, visit - https://www.jlpjobs.com/about/benefits/

About The Partnership

We’re the largest employee owned business in the UK and home of our cherished brands, John Lewis and Waitrose. We’re not just employees, we’re Partners, driven by our purpose to build a happier world. As we look to our future, there’s never been a more exciting time to join us.

We’re ruthlessly focused on being brilliant at retail. We continue to innovate, adapt and diversify. Never Knowingly Undersold on price, quality and service in John Lewis and passionately serving food-lovers in Waitrose.

As Partners we all share the responsibility of ownership and in its rewards. We use our voices to contribute to our success, working together through the good and challenging times, holding true to our behaviours and treating everyone...

Bracknell, United Kingdom

On site

25-03-2025

Company Name: John Lewis Partnership
Job Title: Insight Executive
Job Description: About The Role

To triangulate a range of internal and external data sources to provide insight (market, competitors and consumers) which senior stakeholders can use to drive better business decision making, to deliver the Partnership plan and a better customer and Partner experience.

Working pattern - This is a hybrid working role, therefore your time will primarily be split between working from home and the Bracknell Office. There will be occasional travel to our other offices, shops and agency partner locations.
The Research & Insight management team aims to spend 2 days a week in their primary office to connect, with additional office attendance on a more ad-hoc basis to attend key meetings.
Contract type - This position is a 12 month fixed term

What you lead

Lead a variety of insight projects to deliver clear, relevant and actionable insight to stakeholders, validating and triangulating multiple insight sources
Agree with line manager and key stakeholders the right methodologies and timeframes and budgets for delivery

What you act as the evangelist for

Constantly seek out more powerful, richer insight sources / opportunities and demonstrate an ability to be innovative and proactive using external sources and customer trends
Supporting the cross pollination of our insights across DI&A and the broader partnership

What are you responsible for

Answering project briefs by bringing together and triangulating relevant data sources to deliver via the agreed Research & Insight project processes
Ensuring work is best in class and self Q&A'd adhering to agreed insight templates and reporting

Agency and supplier partner management & engagement

Ensure projects are delivered on time and within budgets by partner agencies
Ensure full post project wash ups are held with agency / supplier partners to ensure we are maximising value

Products and toolkits

Ensure all insight outputs are uploaded and visible on the Partnership insight platform (‘Litehouse’) by the end of each month
Ensure monthly reporting on engagement and interaction with Litehouse insight materials and ongoing optimisation recommendations off the back of it

Essential Skills You’ll Need

A business-savvy thinker (preferably with retailer experience) with 5 or more years of experience in delivery a variety of insight projects as part of a Research, Insight or strategy function
Ability to work quickly and accurately to tight timeframes against clearly defined briefs and scopes
Has knowledge of which sources to interrogate, understanding the limitations of different data sources and how they can be triangulated together to paint the full picture. Familiarity with a good selection of key sources: NielsenIQ; TGI; YouGov; Mintel; Global Data; Foresight Factory and any other retail, brand and customer satisfaction trackers and insight/foresight sources is required.
Ability to pick up new systems and interfaces and extract maximum value from data and insight subscriptions
Ability to triangulate data sets to form a coherent story, illustrated with key facts in a succinct and punchy paper/deck to answer specific business questions
An ability to conduct a range of analysis including longitudinal, correlation & cluster analysis is important
Experience in a customer insight roles, either client or agency-side, gathering and leveraging a range of insight and data sources to drive action & measurable impact
Good technical insight generation & or market research / intel background focused in retail or FMCG businesses
Demonstrable thought leadership through collation, interpretation and analysis of multiple sources of data and how this can be translated into thought papers
Good storytelling, specifically communication and visualisation that brings insight to life for a senior business audience.
Good commercial acumen and experience applying insight in a fast paced commercial environment.

Desirable:

Experience in more Purpose led and / or employee owned environments
Experience of research methodologies and data integration / Single customer view mining

About The Partnership

We’re the largest employee owned business in the UK and home of our cherished brands, John Lewis and Waitrose. We’re not just employees, we’re Partners, driven by our purpose to build a happier world. As we look to our future, there’s never been a more exciting time to join us.

We’re ruthlessly focused on being brilliant at retail. We continue to innovate, adapt and diversify. Never Knowingly Undersold on price, quality and service in John Lewis and passionately serving food-lovers in Waitrose.

As Partners we all share the responsibility of ownership and in its rewards. We use our voices to contribute to our success, working together through the good and challenging times, holding true to our behaviours and treating everyone with kindness and respect.

We all own making the Partnership somewhere we belong. Embracing our differences and creating an environment where we’re free to be ourselves and can THRIVE. Growing ourselves individually, and as a collective.

As Partners, we make all the difference. And, we all own it.

Important points to note:

It’s important to note that some of our roles are subject to pre-employment vetting (which may include DBS checks for successful candidates). If required, you’ll be informed and provided with information about vetting during the recruitment process and we encourage you to complete any vetting documents quickly to avoid delays. Any DBS checks required will be carried out by a third-party registered body and financial probity checks may also be required for some of our roles.

We also recommend that you apply as soon as possible as vacancies can close early if we see a high number of applicants.

We want all of our Partners to have a good work-life balance and we support flexible working. This might mean flexible or compressed hours, job sharing or shorter hour contracts, where possible. Please discuss this further with the hiring manager during your interview.

Bracknell, United Kingdom

On site

25-03-2025

Company Name: John Lewis Partnership
Job Title: Data Steward
Job Description: About The Role

As a Data Steward in the Data Management Profession you will work closely with areas of the business to drive data centric thinking & decision making through education & relationship building with key data owners, stakeholders & teams from across the business. Will act as the key point of contact for data quality incidents coordinating resolutions where appropriate. Aligning activities to the domains key priorities & the overall data governance strategy. Leading the documentation of business assets in their area, gaining approval where necessary. Supports the business & key stakeholders in risk identification, management & resolution. Through your Profession you will have the opportunity to develop and stretch personally and professionally to achieve your potential. The Partnership supports agile and flexible working practices, such as when, where and how we work. We have several different ways to work flexibly, including part-time, flexible or compressed hours, and job sharing. Head office areas also support a blended working approach. We celebrate diversity and inclusion in the John lewis Partnership and we are committed to becoming the UK’s most inclusive business, reflecting and connecting with the diverse communities that we serve.

Contract type: This is a secondment till April 2026

Salary: The expected salary for this role is upto £60000

Key Responsibilities

Data Centric Thinking

Aligns activities within the domain to overall Data Governance roadmap

Support the Data Maturity Assessment process

Collaborate with the business to support creation of relevant metadata in the Partnership’s metadata repository, providing ongoing management and co-ordinating business approval

Verify and approve that the correct data classification have been applied to data sets

Manages the content and gains approval for the Business Assets in their Data Domain in metadata repository.

Drives adherence to, and being a subject matter expert on the Partnership’s Data Management Policy and Standards and for Domain Standards; undertake periodic Policy and Standards Assurance

Stakeholder Management

Develop and maintain effective relationships with peers, stakeholders and the wider business to ensure engagement, support and delivery of key responsibilities.

Responsible for coordinating and running regular and effective Data Governance working groups at a domain level.

Manage key Data Governance communication vehicles & support the delivery of key and consistent Data Governance messaging for all stakeholders.

Supports the DG lead and DGMs in the creation of outcome led agendas for meetings relating to the Data Governance Forum and Partnership Data Group and where appropriate record the meetings minutes and actions.

Support the Data Owner by maintaining and supporting with materials required for them to carry out their responsibilities

Data Quality

Work across the Data Management Profession to ensure data quality standards are adhered to and work directly with the business to address any issues, including in projects and change initiatives .

Co-ordinate the prioritisation of proactive data quality profiling activity within the domain

Co-ordinate the identification, recording, analysis and remediation of data quality issues and overall sustainability of data quality

Process & Reporting

Identification and documentation of key processes that impact data in their Data Domain.

Drives the development and continuous improvement of the data governance operating model

Monitor performance against Data Governance KPIs in Tableau; create recommendations for remediation and actively celebrate successes.

Ensure that all required reporting and inputs for governance groups is prepared and agreed with stakeholders.

Risk, Issues & Controls Management

Supports the business & key stakeholders in identification, management & resolution of data risks (inc personal data)

Work within a data domain as a point of contact for the business on data issues and data risk management

Promotes data risk awareness, including GDPR, within their subject area

Skills

Risk, Issues & Control Management

Skills in identifying, articulating and mitigating risks and developing controls for ongoing management of risks

Stakeholder Management

Uses stakeholder management to develop trusted relationships with stakeholders and Data Owners.

Data-centric thinking

Understands data, legislation related to it and how it is utilised in the business.

Investigative Skills

Questioning nature which enables you to explore and understand challenges and issues against a big picture view of the Partnership

Attention to detail

Drives quality through attention to detail and being able to consume complex information.

Essential Skills/experience You’ll Need

Understanding of data protection and information security legislation and how this relates to the business strategy.
Experience in complex and / or large data projects as a data SME
A good understanding of data quality approaches
Driving data quality improvements with Business teams
Stakeholder management

Desirable Skills/experience You May Have

Retail, Finance or Financial Services experience
Membership of Data Management groups / communities
Data Management qualification
GDPR Practitioner level or equivalent
Business analysis or project management experience
Knowledge of Data Management technologies and tools
Expertise in data quality practices, approaches and challenges within large organisations

About The Partnership

We’re the largest employee owned business in the UK and home of our cherished brands, John Lewis and Waitrose. We’re not just employees, we’re Partners, driven by our purpose to build a happier world. As we look to our future, there’s never been a more exciting time to join us.

We’re ruthlessly focused on being brilliant at retail. We continue to innovate, adapt and diversify. Never Knowingly Undersold on price, quality and service in John Lewis and passionately serving food-lovers in Waitrose.

As Partners we all share the responsibility of ownership and in its rewards. We use our voices to contribute to our success, working together through the good and challenging times, holding true to our behaviours and treating everyone with kindness and respect.

We all own making the Partnership somewhere we belong. Embracing our differences and creating an environment where we’re free to be ourselves and can THRIVE. Growing ourselves individually, and as a collective.

As Partners, we make all the difference. And, we all own it.

Important points to note:

It’s important to note that some of our roles are subject to pre-employment vetting (which may include DBS checks for successful candidates). If required, you’ll be informed and provided with information about vetting during the recruitment process and we encourage you to complete any vetting documents quickly to avoid delays. Any DBS checks required will be carried out by a third-part...

London, United Kingdom

On site

25-03-2025

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