Ian Magarzo

Nectar

Nectar is a loyalty card scheme in the United Kingdom run by Nectar 360 Limited, a company wholly owned by Sainsbury's. The scheme is the largest in the United Kingdom, and comprises several partner companies including Sainsbury's, Esso, Argos and British Airways.

Job positions

I started contracting for Infinity Works to work on the Nectar account as a Senior iOS developer:

My first project was building a loyalty program integration with a Nectar partner tech team. Afterwards, I worked on gamified campaigns, app themes, architecture, modularisation, and more.

After a year, I took the leadership of the app team (Lead iOS developer). Parallelly, Infinity Works was acquired by Accenture.

I lead the Sainsbury’s multi-million-user Nectar app team. Having a mix of technical and managerial responsibilities, like fostering a motivational environment for teammates, reducing apps' tech debt while adopting new technologies, building CI/CD automation, managing releases, increasing test coverage, mentoring developers, and working alongside other teams in and outside the company. I lead the Sainsbury’s multi-million-user Nectar app team. Having a mix of technical and managerial responsibilities, like fostering a motivational environment for teammates, reducing apps' tech debt while adopting new technologies, building CI/CD automation, managing releases, increasing test coverage, mentoring developers, and working alongside other teams in and outside the company.

Projects

Nectar app widgets (Accenture): Led the innovation project for widgets, enabling customers to view their points outside the app and quickly scan their cards. Spearheaded the initiative from concept to execution, including attending Apple evangelist workshops and one-on-one sessions, developing prototypes, producing promotional videos, implementing analytics, creating a new certificates/profiles set, CI automation, and designing a new session management