Hackajob is collaborating with BBC to connect them with exceptional tech professionals for this role. JOB DETAILS JOB BAND: E CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-time DEPARTMENT: BBC Product Group - TV and Devices LOCATION: Salford - Dock House PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £72,000 - £82,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights. PURPOSE OF THE ROLE IPTV is an the centre of the BBC's strategic ambitions, the iPlayer audience on this platform hits over 13 million user a week. While this is impressive, it pails in comparison to the potential IPTV audience, many more users still turn to broadcast TV to consume their BBC content and a key challenge is enticing them over to our IP products. The TV Enablement team is in need of a talented Software Engineering Team Lead to come in and forge a path in this developing area. The team look after critical infrastructure and tooling that provide the beating heart for all TV development, ensuring teams can quickly and safely deploy their features to production. We are just at the start of their journey though, there are many opportunities to explore and different directions we could take, for example: blue/green deployments, automatic rollbacks, device specific monitoring, expanded operational controls. WHY JOIN THE TEAM We offer a warm welcome with full support settling in and foster a culture where everyone has an opportunity to succeed. We're deeply proud of our values, which are intrinsic to the way we behave every day. We take them seriously because we want our culture to thrive. We want people to really enjoy working with us and get a buzz from knowing that what they are doing is making a difference and enhancing people's lives. You would be in the leadership team forming the strategy and driving it for the whole platform, it is a big responsibility and we set a high bar. Our mission is to provide world-class TV experiences leaning into the BBCs unique strengths, competing with the biggest players. TV is an especially challenging platform given its fragmented nature but we pull together as a strong TV community and drive forwards through collaboration and supporting each other. Your Key Responsibilities And Impact The role of a Software Engineering Team Lead is a hybrid role; mixing expert technical knowledge with leading your team and managing your engineers day to day and their careers. The Focus Of The Role Includes People: Recruit, mentor, coach and manage staff, assuring the quality of their work and professional development. Environment: Create the environment in which people can be their best. This will involve working with department leaders to create a positive and diverse working culture and working with peers to create continuity and alignment across the teams. Technical Expertise: Work across the technical community to improve our software, share knowledge and improve processes / practices when developing software. Essential Criteria YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE Track record of growing engineers with a focus on mentoring, coaching and development Experience of designing, writing and supporting robust, large-scale applications in a fast-changing environment with rapid release cycles Ability to communicate complex technology solutions in a clear and coherent way to different audiences Skilled in dealing with multiple product and technical priorities with a focus on practical decision making In-depth AWS knowledge. Particularly in building infrastructure to support CI/CD and highly available edge distribution. Desired Experience of managing multiple technical and non-technical stakeholders in a complex, agile, matrix environment. Experience in creating and managing large complex mono-repos. Experience working in the TV domain.