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Software Engineering Manager Birmingham, England

BT Group

Full Time Birmingham, England 10.56 - 12.04 GBP Today

Job description

Software Engineering Manager - Capabilities

Job Req ID: 12517

Posting Date: 13-Mar-2023

Function: Software Engineering

Location: Snowhill, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Salary: Competitive with Benefits

About BT:

BT is part of BT Group, along with EE, Openreach, and Plusnet.

Millions of people rely on us every day to help them live their lives, power their businesses, and keep their public services running. We connect friends to family, clients to colleagues, people to possibilities. We keep the wheels of business spinning, and the emergency services responding.

We value diversity and celebrate difference. As Philip Jansen, our CEO, says ‘We embed diversity and inclusion into everything that we do. It’s fundamental to our purpose: we connect for good.’

We all stick to the same values: Personal, Simple, and Brilliant. From day one, you’ll get stuck in to tough challenges, pitch in with ideas, make things happen. But you won’t be alone: we’ll be there with help and support, learning and development.

This is your chance to make a real difference to the world: to be part of the digital transformation of countless lives and businesses. Grab it.

About the Role:

This role is a hybrid working position working remotely and from our Birmingham Digital Hub.

You will be joining Platforms team within Enterprise Digital and be responsible for our Capabilities squad whose goal is to make life for the development teams in other parts of the business easier by providing a set of low friction, fully managed cloud capabilities and abstracting these complexities away from the developer – allowing them to focus on code and not infrastructure. The Capabilities squad specialises in delivering lean iterations of strategic IAC (Infrastructure as Code) using non-traditional tools such as Pulumi and implementing tooling that allow developers to develop and deploy to the cloud faster and securely. As a polyglot and hands-on Engineering Manager, your code will lead by example and your teams will look up to you for strategic and technical leadership. You will be a confident solutions designer, able to communicate complex ideas clearly at various levels of the organization and skilled in working with multi-skilled teams to come up with workable solutions.

You will be a great collaborator working with your counterparts and other Engineering Managers within other Platform teams to ensure that our cloud capabilities are first class and provide the best experience to developers each day. You and your teams will also collaborate closely with engineering teams across the tribes -understanding their requirements and building out capabilities to support it.

Job Responsibilities:

Be a consultant for multiple teams, your deep hands-on experience with multiple development approaches, patterns, and architectures means that you can advise both external teams and your team as to the best way to implement a solution.
Lead, grow and hire a team of engineers that develop best-in-breed tooling and IAC capabilities that allow developers to go from idea to production in 12 minutes or less
Create and Lead strategy for a roadmap that caters to the needs of the business and developers.
Remove manual implementation from workflows and look to automate as much as possible.
Provide mentorship and career support for the members of your teams - maximising their potential.
Agile champion for your teams, taking pride in a metrics-based organisation that looks to continually improve itself.

Skills:

10+ years hands-on software engineering experience delivering and managing software in production in a commercial setting, ideally in enterprise environments.
A good level of commercial expertise in core Java and Spring Boot
4+ years of experience in building software products in Typescript.
2+ years of experience in a team leadership position where you were responsible for career growth and mentorship of team members.
3+ years of experience with agile systems development methodologies
3+ years' experience with cloud computing on AWS.
Passion for automation with a reluctance for manual implementation
Bonus is experience with DevOps tools, process and culture.

Benefits:

Competitive salary
25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
10% on target bonus
Life Assurance
Pension scheme
Option to join the Healthcare Cash Plan or other benefits such as dental insurance, gym memberships etc.
50% off BT and EE mobile pay monthly or SIM only plans
Exclusive colleague discounts on our latest and greatest BT broadband packages
BT TV, including BT Sport and the NOW Entertainment membership, and 25% off NOW Sport, Cinema and Kids
30% discount for friends and family on EE mobile pay monthly and SIM only plans

Why this job matters

The Software Engineering Manager coordinates the execution of the engineering strategy and roadmap that supports BT's commercial strategy through cross functional business partnering and the participation of a team that pursues innovation as well as engineering excellence.

What you’ll be doing

1. Manages and coaches teams of software engineers driving the engineering organisation's ability to deliver high quality code on time and on budget and implementing means of bringing measurability as well as predictability to the engineering organisation's capabilities
2. Oversees the execution of technical decisions, technology choices and architecture for a wide range of high-performance products, capabilities, and platforms, effectively balancing short term impact with long-term transformation
3. Monitors, manages and ensures timely releases from teams by driving compliance with key release quality metrics
4. Consults on complex and strategic issues using advanced technical knowledge, across wider industry and/or specific sectors, and develops bespoke or leading edge, technically complex solutions (e.g., relating to new, untested technology and/or large-scale impact of products)
5. Drives the implementation of the defined technical roadmap to meet the needs of the business, engineering team, and partner teams
6. Implements, engineering and operational excellence initiatives, implementing metrics and processes for regular assessment and improvement
7. Takes a managerial and influencer role in the software engineering function, implementing the technical vision and the pursuit of innovations regarding new technologies, platforms and applications
8. Develops '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
9. Oversees the implementation of new architectures, standards, and methods for large-scale enterprise systems, proactively removing blockers from the team's work
10. Researches, designs and writes new software and performs deep dive data analysis, to identify issues and implement ways to improve working processes within the area of software engineering responsibility, such as avoiding and reducing technical debt
11. Performs complex debugging and troubleshooting of critical issues throughout the development process
12. Supports the implementation of new architectures, standards, and methods for large-scale enterprise systems
13. Coordinates the evaluation and implementation of high-quality tools and automation processes to support continuous delivery and developer productivity
14. Builds and maintains an engineering culture that fosters innovation and creativity while delivering high quality products with predictability and reliability
15. Champions, continuously develops and shares with team knowledge on emerging trends and changes in software engineering

The skills you’ll need

Capability Building

Agile Development

Culture Building

Change Management

Microservices/Service Oriented Architecture

Technology Strategy

Business Analysis

Cloud Computing

Technology Governance

Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment Automation & Orchestration

Software Testing

Software Development Lifecycle

Business Process Improvement

Project/Programme Management

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.

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