Wilko goes on engineering team recruitment drive as it seeks Integration Analyst and DevOps Engineer
Wilko, a British high street chain which sells homewares and household goods, is recruiting for two roles in its engineering team.
In a LinkedIn post, Simon Reeve, Head of Engineering and Architecture at Wilko, said: “We're looking for an Integration Analyst to join our established Integration team, led by the excellent Adam Tims.”
“Our Integration team build and manage enterprise integrations and processes using SAP PO; and they own our data fabric, built on the exciting Cinchy data integration platform. And more besides.”
He added: “We're also looking for a DevOps Engineer to join our newly formed DevOps team, led by the equally excellent Chris Stevens.”
“This is a great opportunity, particularly for someone with existing experience, to come into a relatively greenfield DevOps environment and really make their mark. Plenty to get stuck into, and plenty of opportunity to shape the tech, working on our omni channel technology stack.”
“Both roles are listed as based out of our Worksop (North Notts) office, but significant flexibility on location is available - let's discuss!”
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Virtualstock
As part of its digital acceleration strategy, Wilko has gone live on Virtualstock’s marketplace and drop ship platform.
“We’re delighted with what we’ve been able to achieve with Virtualstock,” said Ben Exall, Digital Director at Wilko, a British high street chain which sells homewares and household goods.
“We know this will result in a reduction in ‘where is my order?’ calls to the contact centre through improved clarity of the orders on their journey to the customer. We can now also better track stock levels with greater visibility in the platform.”
Click and Collect
Earlier this year, Wilko rolled out a Click and Collect service to its 400+ stores.
Online purchases can be collected from stores in as little as three hours, at no extra charge.
This is an extension of a service that the retailer began offering from approximately 70 locations last year.
In a LinkedIn post, Reeve said: “I’m hugely proud of the cross functional team here at Wilko that has recently brought Click and Collect to all of our 400+ stores, resulting in a great new way to shop and some terrific feedback from our customers and team members.”
Reeve noted that delivery went from sticky Post-Its to production launch in about seven months. “That short timescale belies the huge complexity of the challenge.”
He added: “For the Wilko technology team this involved unpicking lots of legacy tech; implementing the spine of a new tech stack based on MACH principles and composable architecture; taking our first steps into CI/CD and DevOps with UST; implementing a new data fabric with Cinchy; integrating OMS capability with Blue Yonder; and much more besides.”
The project involved Wilko shifting its thinking from e-commerce to omnichannel, and from project centric to product centric delivery.
Reeve concluded: “Still lots more to do on all of the above, and as a technology team we're excited to be pushing on and supporting our great business in accelerating our omnichannel transformation.”
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