Digital Technical Specialist (Technical PO search)

Digital Technical Specialist (Technical PO search)
Location: Remote (UK)
RS Group is seeking a Digital Technical Specialist (Technical PO search)  to join our team on a permanent basis. In this role, you will serve as a subject matter expert in Digital Technologies, specifically Search, working cross-functionally to drive innovation and accelerate new capabilities. You will be responsible for solution design, data architecture, and software development, delivering rapid proof of concepts to assess feasibility before full-scale implementation. Additionally, you will explore tactical solutions for adopting and integrating new digital features, ensuring seamless transitions while long-term strategies are developed.
 

What You’ll Be Doing

• Define and prioritize technical components (security, data architecture, and development tools) in collaboration with product owners to build a robust product roadmap and reduce technical debt.
• Act as the lead subject matter expert for Search Engine requirements, enhancing user experience and search performance.
• Take ownership of the search ETL process and Search Engine preferably with GroupBy , ensuring the system aligns with both legacy systems and future Adobe e-commerce transformation.
• Manage the backlog for the back-end search team, coordinating cross-functional demand efficiently.
• Act as a technical bridge between business and technical stakeholders, collaborating with engineers to deliver technical requirements swiftly.
• Support with the design and implementation of data integration tools in collaboration with our Principal Engineers, Architects and Engineering managers, to support the migration of digital capabilities to the new strategic platform.
• Conduct in-depth analysis on search performance and other digital solutions to optimize business outcomes.
• Foster strong working relationships with product management, engineering, architecture, and other digital stakeholders to enhance solutions and capabilities.
• Drive the agile delivery of digital capabilities by designing and executing proof of concepts.
• Serve as GroupBy support owner, defining SLAs with vendors, ensuring structured resourcing, and preventing recurring technical issues.
• Collaborate with the Engineering Manager and product owners to maintain continuity and efficiency in search capabilities.
   

About You

The Digital Technical Specialist should have a data-driven mindset, with a keen ability to analyse trends, optimize solutions, and drive business growth. You should possess a deep understanding of e-commerce technologies and demonstrate strong problem-solving skills, all while mentoring and upskilling those around you.
 

What We’re Looking For

• Expert knowledge of search engines, ranking factors, and data-driven approaches to improving user experience.
• Proven ability to build strong business relationships and manage stakeholders effectively.
• Demonstrated experience in advising engineering teams, driving project goals, and upholding high-quality standards with expertise in relevant technologies.
• Commitment to continuous learning, staying ahead of industry trends and best practices.
• Ability to architect complex systems, make strategic decisions, and provide technical guidance to teams.
• Experience working on collaborative projects with both internal resources and external vendors, influencing key outcomes.
• Technical expertise in web technologies, APIs, and e-commerce environments, supporting multi-billion-pound revenue operations.
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills, with the ability to navigate complex technical challenges and engage senior management effectively.
• Agility and adaptability, with a willingness to learn and embrace new technologies, systems, and tools.
• Logical thinker with a structured problem-solving approach.

Desirable Skills & Experience

• Strong analytical skills and ability to investigate and understand existing software without comprehensive documentation
• Experience with a broad range of technologies, with a passion for either Data or Solution Architecture
• Working knowledge of JavaScript, HTML, XML Web Services and database design
• Experience with data integration, APIs, and database technologies
• Software engineering background
• Business analysis experience
   

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.​

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