El Corte Inglés is the largest department store group in Europe and a dominant force in the Spanish retail landscape. Headquartered in Madrid, the conglomerate operates a diverse portfolio including department stores, supermarkets, travel agencies, and insurance services. With a workforce of tens of thousands, it serves as a primary pillar of the Spanish economy and a leader in consumer goods distribution.

For international professionals, El Corte Inglés offers a gateway into the Spanish corporate world, particularly within its expanding digital, IT, and logistics hubs. While customer-facing roles typically require high Spanish proficiency, the company's focus on e-commerce and supply chain modernization has increased demand for specialized technical talent and project managers from diverse backgrounds.

Founded in 1940 by Ramón Areces in Madrid, the company began as a small tailor shop. Over several decades, it expanded through aggressive growth and acquisitions to become Spain's most iconic retail conglomerate.

For international professionals

Largest department store chain in Europe with a massive physical and digital footprint across Spain.
Offers a wide variety of roles ranging from specialized tech and engineering to corporate management and retail.
Headquartered in Madrid with a presence in every major Spanish city and province.
Currently undergoing a significant digital transformation, creating opportunities for international IT and e-commerce experts.
Known for providing long-term career stability and being one of the most recognized brands in the country.

Systems and Infrastructure Engineering Manager

El Corte Ingles

This job was originally posted in Spanish and automatically translated to English. You'll most likely need Spanish to apply.

Requirements

Knowledge of IT infrastructure, including on-premise and cloud environments, with experience in service management, distributed architectures, and hybrid models, including platform services under CloudOps and Platform Engineering models. Experience in environments with an infrastructure outsourcing work model. Ability to define and implement cost management and optimization models in cloud and hybrid environments. Experience in the design and automation of data ingestion and transformation processes from multiple sources (cloud providers, ITSM tools, monitoring platforms), guaranteeing the quality, consistency, and traceability of the information.
Ability to develop executive cost dashboards oriented toward decision-making, incorporating key metrics, variance analysis, and cost allocation models aligned with FinOps principles.

Benefits

- Exclusive discounts and financing options.
- Life insurance.
- Corporate University.
- Continuous training for professional development.
- Study grants for employees' children.
- In-house Medical Service.
- Flexible remuneration plan.

Job Description

Are you looking to develop your talent and find a place where your effort is recognized? We offer a dynamic, close-knit, and forward-looking environment. Here, every day is a new opportunity to learn, grow, and shine. Imagine being part of a diverse team where evolution and customer service are our priority. At El Corte Inglés, our work is a shared passion.

The project awaiting you.

Collaborate with the Domain Technical Leader to implement the strategic vision of the domain, taking into account technical implications and playing a key role in the success of technological initiatives and the alignment of technical aspects with business objectives.

Main functions and requirements.

Areas of responsibility

FinOps Governance

Evolve the FinOps framework within the organization.
Define showback / chargeback models for internal areas of the organization, covering cloud service costs, software licenses, and outsourced services.
Establish control mechanisms. Identify optimization and rightsizing opportunities.

Platform Engineering Coordination and Operating Model Transformation

Coordination of the internal team responsible for:

Standardizing infrastructure as code (IaC) services and capabilities:
- Build the ECI infrastructure product catalog, defining standards and operations in collaboration with the Architecture team.
- Perform low-level design for the needs raised by platform consumer teams.
- Ensure corrective and evolutionary maintenance of the platform, supervising the work portfolio of the outsourcer's team.

Drive and facilitate the adoption of the platform model by Development teams.
Control and manage the operation of the platform service.

Infrastructure Project Office

Responsibilities of the internal PMO team:

Manage IT infrastructure demand.
Validate technical scope, architecture, risks, etc., together with project teams and various areas.
Coordinate the correct production deployment of projects/services together with the infrastructure outsourcing team and other involved ECI areas, ensuring internal policies and governance.
Define and supervise reporting and activity indicators in this process with the infrastructure outsourcer.

Systems Areas

Capacity and Lifecycle Management

- Supervision and control of capacity (cloud, distributed, mainframe), in coordination with the infrastructure outsourcer.
- Technological obsolescence governance.

Infrastructure project management.

Knowledge

Knowledge of IT infrastructure, including on-premise and cloud environments, with experience in service management, distributed architectures, and hybrid models, including platform services under CloudOps and Platform Engineering models.
Experience in environments with an infrastructure outsourcing work model.
Ability to define and implement cost management and optimization models in cloud and hybrid environments. Experience in the design and automation of data ingestion and transformation processes from multiple sources (cloud providers, ITSM tools, monitoring platforms), guaranteeing the quality, consistency, and traceability of the information.
Ability to develop executive cost dashboards oriented toward decision-making, incorporating key metrics, variance analysis, and cost allocation models aligned with FinOps principles.

We offer a variety of social benefits that will contribute to your well-being.

- Exclusive discounts and financing options.

- Life insurance.

- Corporate University.

- Continuous training for professional development.

- Study grants for employees' children.

- In-house Medical Service.

- Flexible remuneration plan.

If you find this position interesting, we invite you to apply, as your experience could be very valuable to us. Everyone is welcome in our company.

View original advert (Spanish)

¿Buscas desarrollar tu talento y un lugar dónde tu esfuerzo sea reconocido? Te ofrecemos un entorno dinámico, cercano y de futuro. Aquí, cada día es una nueva oportunidad para aprender, crecer y brillar. Imagina formar parte de un equipo diverso, donde la evolución y el servicio al cliente son nuestra prioridad. En El Corte Inglés, nuestro trabajo es una pasión compartida.

El proyecto que te espera.

Colaborar con el Líder Técnico de Dominio para aterrizar la visión estratégica del dominio teniendo en cuenta las implicaciones técnicas y desempeñando un papel clave en el éxito de las iniciativas tecnológicas y en la alineación de los aspectos técnicos con los objetivos del negocio

Funciones principales y requisitos.

Areas de responsabilidad

Gobierno FinOps

Evolucionar el framework FinOps en la organización.
Definir modelos de showback / chargeback hacia áreas internas de la organización, cubriendo costes servicios cloud, licencias software y servicios externalizados
Establecer mecanismos de control. Identificar oportunidades de optimización y rightsizing

Coordinación de Platform Engineering y transformación de Modelo Operativo

Coordinación del equipo interno responsable de:

Estandarizar servicios y capacidades de infraestructura como código (IaC):
- Construir el catálogo de productos de infraestructura ECI, en colaboración con el equipo de Arquitectura, definir estándares y operación.
- Diseñar a bajo nivel las necesidades planteadas por los equipos consumidores de plataforma.
- Asegurar el mantenimiento correctivo y evolutivo de la plataforma, supervisando la cartera de trabajo del equipo del outsourcer

Impulsar y facilitar la adopción del modelo de plataforma por equipos de Desarrollo
Controlar y gestionar la explotación del servicio de plataforma

Oficina de Proyectos de Infraestructura

Responsabilidades del equipo interno PMO:

Gestionar la demanda de infrastructura IT
Validar, junto con los equipos de proyecto y de las distintas áreas: alcance técnico, arquitectura, riesgos,etc.
Coordinar junto con el equipo de outsourcing de infraestructuctura y resto de áreas ECI involucradas en el proyecto, la correcta puesta en producción de los proyectos/servicios, asegurando políticas internas y gobierno
Definir y supervisar reporting e indicadores de actividad en este proceso con el outsourcer de infraestructura

Areas de Sistemas

Gestión de Capacidad y Ciclo de vida

- Supervisión y control de capacidad (cloud, distribuido, mainframe), en coordinación con el outsourcer de infraestructura
- Gobierno de obsolescencia tecnológica

Gestión de proyectos de infraestructura.

Conocimientos

Conocimientos de infraestructura IT, incluyendo entornos on‑premise y cloud, con experiencia en gestión de servicios, arquitecturas distribuidas y modelos híbridos incluyendo servicios de plataforma bajo modelos CloudOps y Platform Engineering.
Experiencia en entornos con un modelo de trabajo de outsourcing de infraestructura.
Capacidad para definir e implantar modelos de gestión y optimización de costes en entornos cloud e híbridos. Experiencia en el diseño y automatización de procesos de ingesta y transformación de datos provenientes de múltiples fuentes (cloud providers, herramientas ITSM, plataformas de monitorización), garantizando la calidad, consistencia y trazabilidad de la información.
Capacidad para desarrollar cuadros de mando ejecutivos de costes, orientados a la toma de decisiones, incorporando métricas clave, análisis de desviaciones y modelos de imputación de costes, alineados con los principios de FinOps.

Te ofrecemos una variedad de beneficios sociales que contribuirán a tu bienestar.

- Descuentos exclusivos y opciones de financiación.

- Seguro de vida.

- Universidad Corporativa.

- Formación continua para el desarrollo profesional.

- Ayudas al estudio para hijos e hijas de empleados.

- Servicio Médico propio.