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Job description
Engineering Manager
Streaming
Permanent
Office location: ITV White City (We operate hybrid working patterns)
Hiring range: £80,000 - £95,000 per annum
For more information please email [email protected]
Your work matters to millions.
Shaping culture is in the DNA of ITV. So, it’s not surprising that you’ll find us in every home in the UK, our productions are famous all over the world and we’re at the forefront of the digital streaming revolution.
When you join us, you enter a fun working environment. With opportunities to learn, to grow and make a real difference. Small enough that your impact’s felt in the business, but big enough that your impact reaches millions of people.
Come develop your skills, change TV and the course of your career. Don’t just watch it.
Be part of it. Join ITV.
Your impact sends ripples.
Engineering Management Role & Department
Streaming is where we build, maintain and expand the capabilities of ITVX, ensuring our strong position within the UK's VOD, Catch-Up and Live Streaming markets. Our front-end engineers focus on building highly responsive, mobile-first solutions, and our backend engineers build the reliable and scalable services that underpin them.
Our platforms serve millions of hours of content to 40 million customers, across connected TV, web and mobile.
We are looking for an Engineering Manager who is able to help nurture and grow the Streaming Technology engineering organisation. The role has technical aspects but primarily focuses on a people-first approach to ensuring we’re delivering at our best by developing our teams, our engineers, and the processes that empower them.
Engineering Managers will work across our multidisciplinary department to foster alignment and shared understanding working across both our Front End and Back-End Engineering Teams. Our teams use React, TypeScript, JavaScript and Scala, working in agile & autonomous ways.
The ideal candidate will be a smart, kind, and empathic person with an enthusiasm for software development, architecture and programming. You will have previously been an engineer/developer at a reasonably senior level, having worked in a number of environments and business types.
Above all, you will be excited about helping people achieve their best, and be motivated by the reward of seeing your teams succeed. This role is a fantastic opportunity to help shape one of the fastest moving, highest growth, and strategically important areas of ITV.
Impact millions. Join Streaming Tech & Work on ITVX.
Day-to-Day Outline:
- Support and coaching Software Engineers, advocating best practices
- Champion developer autonomy, mastery and purpose
- Organising individual and team training opportunities
- Lead and grow / develop the relevant Communities of practice
- Line management
- Coaching and advising on career development
- Mediating discussions both interpersonal and technical
- Assisting with aspects of the graduate scheme
- Responsible for recruitment activities
- Manage and design our on-call and support processes
- Assisting with team organisation, structuring, and staff rotation
- Adding engineering capacity without being on the critical path to delivery
Skills You’ll Need (minimum role criteria):
- Worked at a Senior level as a programmer, in either Front End or Backend Technologies. This implies a good understanding of:
- Programming specicialism, such as Javascript, HTML & CSS, Scala, Java etc
- Testing practices
- Architecture
- Service / system performance
- Build, test and deployment pipelines
- DevOps / platform engineering
- Agile delivery experience, and a demonstrable understanding of the concepts and trade offs, and how they impact engineers on the ground.
- Demonstrable experience of leading or managing a small team of engineers (Growth, personal development, working practices, time management etc)
- Ability or experience of promoting an open, considerate and diverse engineering culture
Other things we’re looking for (key criteria)
- Stakeholder management experience.
- Experience training or coaching on an individual and/or group level.
- Experience with recruitment and interviewing
- Experience of working on inclusion programmes for Engineering)
- Ability to look at a business process, assess it’s value, and propose/ articulate suitable alternatives.
- High quality presentation and communication skills.
ITV is for everyone.
ITV strongly encourages applications for this role from disabled people. As a Disability Confident Leader, if you meet the minimum criteria for a role and you have declared that you are disabled, we’ll guarantee to take you to the next stage* (minimum criteria above).
We're happy to discuss any support/personalisation you may need during our application and selection process as part of our reasonable adjustments. Drop us a line if you require anything at [email protected].
- There may be a few exceptions where we are not able to take all eligible candidates to the next stage due to the volume of applications.
Because those who make an impact deserve to be rewarded for it.
ITV offers some great rewards and benefits including
- Flexible working with a range of options to suit everyone
- Generous holiday allowance, plus you can buy more
- Annual bonus opportunity
- Competitive pension contribution
- Save as you earn - with an opportunity to buy ITV shares
- Wellbeing and volunteering days plus a wide range of opportunities to help you live a balanced and healthy life
More about our benefits
Closing date: Thursday 13th July 2023
