Hardware Engineer - Sainsbury's

Hardware Engineer

Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits Location: Coventry Store, Coventry, CV1 1FL Contract type: Permanent Business area: Sainsbury's Tech Closing date: 07 August 2026 Requisition ID: 400073867

We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. Think about the scale it takes to feed the nation. The level of data, transactions and variety involved. Then you’ll realise this is a modern software engineering environment, because it has to be. We’ve made significant investment in the standards and principles that shape how we work. We iterate, learn, experiment and champion ways of working such as Agile, Scrum and XP. So you can look forward to exciting opportunities across everything from AI to reusable tech.

Hardware Engineer

In a nutshell

As a Hardware Engineer (Customer Devices), you'll be part of a team responsible for designing, implementing, remotely managing and continuously improving customer-facing hardware solutions across our stores.

These devices play a direct role in how customers experience our brand, so we're looking for someone who understands the importance of reliable, well-managed technology in a retail environment. You'll work across the full device lifecycle, partnering with multiple teams and third parties to deliver scalable, secure and reliable customer technology solutions.

You'll be someone who enjoys solving complex problems, embracing new technology and continuously improving how services are delivered within a fast-paced retail environment.

What I am accountable for

• Manage the end-to-end lifecycle of customer-facing hardware solutions.
• Evaluate, test and deploy new customer device technologies.
• Lead store pilots and rollout activities for new hardware solutions.
• Design and maintain device management and support frameworks.
• Manage and support devices remotely at scale using MDM tooling.
• Drive device availability, security and configuration consistency.
• Support continuous improvement of hardware services and operational processes.
• Provide technical guidance and knowledge sharing within the engineering team.
• Collaborate with internal teams and third-party suppliers.
• Contribute to effective management of OPEX and CAPEX budgets.
• Support device decommissioning and end-of-life processes.

Champion customer-focused engineering and service delivery.

Essential Criteria

• Strong experience delivering end-to-end hardware solutions.
• Experience evaluating, testing, deploying and supporting physical devices.
• Knowledge of hardware lifecycle management from implementation through to retirement.
• Experience using MDM or remote management tools such as SOTI, JAMF or SCCM.
• Strong knowledge of Windows, iOS and Android operating systems.