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Salary Range: £63,300 - £84,367 per annum
Contract type: permanent
Location: London or Salford- 1 day per week from the office
* An employer pension contribution of up to 10%
* 25 days’ annual leave (based on full time hours) + bank holidays and the option to buy/sell additional days
* Contributory lifestyle benefit options including discounts at hundreds of retailers, cycle to work scheme, discounted gym memberships and healthcare schemes
* Employee assistance and well-being programmes
* Learning and development tailored to your role this could include industry recognised qualifications, coaching and mentoring
* An inclusive and diverse environment with opportunities to join staff networks including: Women’s Network, National Disability Networks and many more
Job Package
Band: D
Salary Range: £63,300 - £84,367 per annum
Contract type: permanent
Location: London or Salford- 1 day per week from the office
Our Comprehensive Benefits Package Includes
* An employer pension contribution of up to 10%
* 25 days’ annual leave (based on full time hours) + bank holidays and the option to buy/sell additional days
* Contributory lifestyle benefit options including discounts at hundreds of retailers, cycle to work scheme, discounted gym memberships and healthcare schemes
* Employee assistance and well-being programmes
* Learning and development tailored to your role this could include industry recognised qualifications, coaching and mentoring
* An inclusive and diverse environment with opportunities to join staff networks including: Women’s Network, National Disability Networks and many more
Family friendly flexible working arrangements, such as hybrid working, job sharing, flexi-time and compressed hours can be requested.
We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and especially welcome individuals from underrepresented groups.
If you require any reasonable adjustments at any time, please let us know by contacting us on reasonable.adjustments@bbc.co.uk.
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Job Introduction
Are you looking for a role that builds on your experience of engineering systems? Are you keen to inspire, grow and develop a team of talented engineers? Do you strive to create an environment in which people can flourish and be their best? Would you like to work on websites and services that are used by millions of people each day? If so, this opportunity could be for you.
We are currently looking for talented Software Engineering Team Leads across our teams here at the BBC. You will be a current or aspiring technology leader who has a passion for creating world class engineering teams and developing, guiding and mentoring people. You will be working in partnership with the other supportive roles in the team, to deliver best in class product experiences, drive forward our technologies and support your engineers. You will be supported by the senior colleagues within your area to enable you to build and develop your team and the people within it.
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Main Responsibilities
The role of a Software Engineering Team Lead is a hybrid role; mixing expert technical knowledge with supporting 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 leadership 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.
Are you the right candidate for the role?
Here are some of the characteristics of an ideal candidate - we know that the ideal candidate doesn’t exist, so take a look through and let’s have a conversation if you have an interest.
* 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
* Experience of working with multiple technical and non-technical stakeholders in a complex, agile, matrix environment
* 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 and pragmatic ways forward
* Experience working on high capacity, high traffic or high availability websites
* Experience with cloud infrastructure, particularly with event-driven architectures and complex data structures
About The BBC
The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC for different reasons 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.
We don’t focus simply on what we do – we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. Please make sure you’ve read about our values and behaviours here.
Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential.
We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to be part of the BBC – whether that’s to contribute to our programming or our wide range of non-production roles. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.
We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.
To find out more about Diversity and Inclusion at the BBC, please click here.
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.
For any general queries, please contact: bbchr@bbc.co.uk
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