Build products that shape decisions at the world's largest retailers
At Oliver Wyman, we're known globally for helping organisations solve their toughest strategic challenges. Within Oliver Wyman, Retail Solutions is a product-focused engineering organisation building SaaS solutions that help retailers optimise assortments, pricing, promotions and other critical commercial decisions.
We're looking for a Senior Lead Software Engineer (Full Stack) to join one of our product teams and play a key role in shaping the future of our platform and products.
What You'll Do
- Lead design, development and operation of new capabilities across our SaaS products.
- Make architectural decisions that balance immediate business needs with long-term scalability and maintainability.
- Work closely with product, engineering and business leadership to shape product roadmaps and technical strategy.
- Identify and drive improvements across performance, reliability, scalability, security and developer experience.
- Champion modern engineering practices, including AI‑assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot.
- Lead adoption of new patterns, frameworks and platform capabilities across teams.
- Mentor engineers and foster a culture of continuous learning, operational excellence and high-quality delivery.
- Partner with platform, security and compliance teams to ensure products meet organizational and regulatory standards.
- Contribute directly to production code and remain deeply involved in technical implementation.
Who We're Looking For
- 7+ years of software engineering experience.
- Experience as a Senior Engineer, Lead Engineer, Staff Engineer or Software Architect.
- A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science or a related field (preferred but not essential).
- Certifications such as Azure Solutions Architect or CKA (beneficial but not required).
- Experience working in consulting or client‑facing environments (helpful but not essential).
You'll Likely Have Experience With
- Building and operating modern full‑stack applications using technologies such as JavaScript/TypeScript and Python.
- Frameworks such as Express.js, Vue.js, Flask and Pandas.
- Designing distributed systems, service‑oriented architectures and microservices.
- Cloud‑native development, ideally on Azure.
- Kubernetes‑based platforms and deployment practices.
- AKS and supporting technologies such as ArgoCD, Helm, Dapr and GitOps workflows.
- Database technologies including MongoDB and PostgreSQL.
- DevSecOps, Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD practices.
- Large‑scale data platforms, data warehouses or lakehouses (Databricks experience is advantageous).
Why Join Oliver Wyman Retail Solutions
Our products support some of the world's largest retailers in making critical commercial decisions, and you will see the direct impact of the software you build.
We value strong technical thinking, continuous improvement and collaborative problem‑solving.
You'll be trusted to make decisions, shape solutions and influence the future direction of our products and platform.
If you're excited by the challenge of building cloud‑native products at scale and influencing technical strategy, we'd love to hear from you.
Marsh is an equal‑opportunities employer. We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments for candidates with disabilities. If you require such support, contact us at reasonableaccommodations@marsh.com.
