What you’ll be doing
1. Leads engineering teams critical to the organisation's performance through the delivery of high-quality code within time and budget standards/requirements.
2. Mentors, coaches, and manages several teams to develop current and future team capabilities and ensure performance in delivering the most impactful features to both internal and external users of the BT team.
3. Leads the team in adopting relevant new technologies, tools, methods and processes that progressively advance service capabilities to its different stakeholders.
4. Ensures timely releases from teams by overseeing compliance with key release quality metrics.
5. Operates as an SME within its own field of expertise, driving technical decisions, and technology choices and contributes to group-level discussion around architecture for a wide range of high-performance products, capabilities, and platforms, effectively balancing short-term impact with long-term transformation.
6. Oversees the team in developing an ambitious and compelling technical roadmap to meet the needs of the business, engineering organisation and defined technology strategy.
7. Oversees engineering and operational excellence initiatives, implementing metrics and processes for regular assessment and improvement through the implementation of processes and tools supporting multiple platforms.
8. Ensures team standards of engineering and operational excellence are upheld, establishing metrics and processes for regular assessment and improvement through the creation and implementation of processes and tools supporting multiple platforms.
9. Drives an engineering culture that supports innovation and creativity while delivering high-quality products with predictability and reliability.
10. Builds "best-in-class" engineering for services by ensuring that the services and the components are well-defined and modularised, secure, reliable, diagnosable, actively monitored and reusable.
11. Leads the evaluation and implementation of high-quality tools and automation processes to support continuous delivery and developer productivity.
12. Ensures the development and adoption of a DevOps mindset across the engineering teams.
13. Leads the implementation of continuous improvement opportunities to improve the software engineering team processes.
Skills
14. Agile Development | Expert
15. CI/CD | Advanced
16. Technology Strategy | Advanced
17. Software Development Lifecycle | Expert
18. Cloud Computing | Expert
19. AI & ML | Expert
20. Software Testing | Expert
21. Microservices | Expert
22. Change Management | Advanced
23. Culture Building | Advanced
24. Technology Governance | Advanced
25. Business Process Improvement | Advanced
26. Capability Building | Expert
27. Business Analysis | Advanced
Experience
28. Demonstrated Leadership: Ability to lead and inspire a team of software engineers, providing guidance, mentorship, and fostering a collaborative work environment.
29. Technical Proficiency: Strong understanding of software engineering principles, development methodologies, and technologies relevant to the team's projects.
30. Project Management: Proven experience in managing complex software development projects, including planning, resource allocation, and timely delivery.
31. Strategic Vision: Ability to align software engineering initiatives with broader organizational goals and drive the long-term technical roadmap for the team.
32. People Management: Skilled in recruiting, hiring, and retaining top engineering talent, as well as managing performance, conducting regular feedback sessions, and career development planning.
33. Cross-Functional Collaboration: Proven track record of effectively collaborating with product managers, designers, quality assurance teams, and other stakeholders to deliver high-quality software solutions.
34. Agile Methodologies: Experience implementing and optimising Agile or similar development processes, fostering continuous improvement, and ensuring efficient execution.
35. Risk Management: Ability to identify and mitigate technical risks, proactively address potential roadblocks, and make data-driven decisions to minimize project disruptions.
36. Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills to convey complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, facilitating effective collaboration and understanding.
37. Industry Awareness: Strong knowledge of industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in software engineering, keeping the team up-to-date and encouraging innovation.
Benefits
38. Competitive salary
39. 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
40. 15% on target bonus
41. Company car cash allowance
42. Life Assurance
43. Pension scheme
44. Private Medical cover
45. Direct share scheme
46. 50% off EE mobile pay monthly or SIM only plans
47. Exclusive colleague discounts on our latest and greatest BT broadband packages
48. BT TV with TNT Sports and NOW Entertainment
49. 50% discount for friends and family on EE SIM Only plans & airtime element off a Flex Pay plan
Our leadership standards
Looking in:
Leading inclusively
I inspire and build trust through self-awareness, honesty and integrity.
Owning outcomes
I take the right decisions that benefit the broader organisation.
Looking out:
Delivering for the customer
I execute brilliantly on clear priorities that add value to our customers and the wider business.
Commercially savvy
I demonstrate strong commercial focus, bringing an external perspective to decision-making.
Looking to the future:
Growth mindset
I experiment and identify opportunities for growth for both myself and the organisation.
Building for the future
I build diverse future-ready teams where all individuals can be at their best.