JOB DETAILS
JOB BAND: E
CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-time
DEPARTMENT: Discoverability
LOCATION: Office Base is Newcastle or Salford Dock House or London Broadcasting House – Hybrid. This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working.
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: Up to £115,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
We're happy to discuss flexible working. If you'd like to, please indicate your preference in the application – though there's no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.
Job Introduction
We want the BBC to be as renowned for the quality of its engineering as it is for the quality of its content. We aspire to be the best so that we can engineer outstanding digital products, at scale. Working here in an engineering role means being part of a world-class team and a chance to do the most meaningful work of your career
Our Discoverability teams are building platform capabilities that make it easier for audiences to find personalised and contextually relevant content. Our goal is to create the first personalisation platform rooted in public service values.
We're looking for an experienced software engineering leader in Machine Learning to join us as a Senior Principal Software Engineer. You will be responsible for shaping, developing and delivering machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions. This will help create robust, scalable and innovative personalisation systems that power our digital services.
Interview process
Technical task for shortlisted candidates – approx. one hour preparation time (week commencing 13th October)
Virtual interview – approx. one hour of technical and values-based questions interviews to begin 20th October *this may be subject to change")
Main Responsibilities
* Provide technical leadership and mentoring, set technical standards and define best practice.
* Ensure reliability, scalability and maintainability of our ML capabilities.
* Cross functional collaboration with product, architecture and data science
* Ensure that machine learning solutions are effectively integrated into products and deliver measurable, sustainable business value
* Identify and champion innovation within teams
* Active participant in Industry ML forums and communities
Are you the right candidate?
* Significant experience as a senior individual contributor – Senior Principal Software Engineer / Staff Engineer
* Excellent communication skills and experience with managing multi-disciplinary stakeholders.
* Extensive experience setting technical direction across multiple software engineering teams.
* Extensive experience in large scale machine learning, including building, deploying, scaling and securing ML infrastructure in cloud-native environments.
* Strong experience with AWS services including SageMaker, Bedrock, S3, EC2, Lambda, IAM, VPC, ECS/EKS, DynamoDB, Kafka, CloudFormation and associated technologies such as Python
* Proven ability to drive cross functional technical initiatives and deliver results through collaboration and alignment.
Disclaimer
This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.
Please note: If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory.
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Redeployment
The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.