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Software Engineering Manager

Job Req ID:  37713
Posting Date:  11 Dec 2024
Function:  Software Engineering
Unit:  Digital
Location: 

RMZ Ecoworld, Devarabeesanahal, Bengaluru, India

Salary:  Competitive

Why BT?


We’ve always been an organisation with purpose; to use the power of communications to make a better world. You can trace this back to our beginning as pioneers of the world’s first telecommunications company. At our heart we’re a technology company with research and innovation in our bones and a desire to be personal, simple, and brilliant for our customers - those are the values we live by whilst also creating an inclusive working environment where people from all backgrounds can succeed.

Our pursuit of progress over the past 180 years has established BT as a strong, successful brand, with huge scale capable of achieving great things. From supporting emergency services, hospitals, banks and keeping economies around the world online, safe and secure, to delivering large scale technology infrastructure like the creation of BT Sport.

Today in this fast changing, always on, digital world our purpose remains true. Yet the market conditions, regulation and competition we face are tougher than ever before. So if you have the drive, optimism and resilience to help propel us forward we’ll offer unrivalled personal development, a wealth of opportunities to learn, experience new things and pursue new careers. If that’s you and what you’re looking for, we’d love you to be part of our future.

Responsibilities

  • The lead will report to the Senior Software Engineering Manager and execute an active role in the Leadership team in this unit.
  • Experience in solution designing and managing different stakeholders/vendors
  • Experience in software development and implement strategy roadmap to drive efficiency and productivity of the team.
  • Plan and execute Digital Transformation strategy.
  • Effective reporting and work with cross domain team to achieve program’s objectives.
  • Understand the telecom domain well enough, especially the Service design and logical inventory, physical and logical planning, and ability to act as domain focal point.
  • Understand need of multiple projects and communicate them divisionally and/or cross-divisionally.
  • Understand Use case details basis explanation from Data Science Lead and through other artifacts.
  • Perform model build, validation tasks.
  • Ability to do deep dive on technical areas and get the best outcome out of technically challenging situations.
  • Able to mentor technical teams.
  • The accountable representative of IT to all senior/exec level OR stakeholders.
  • The role directly manages many senior FTEs globally across the UK and Asia Pacific regions and many other people at lower levels indirectly – in total of about 5 to 6 direct FTEs.  There are also subcontracted teams from multiple vendors, to contribute to the
  • Drive strong engineering practices in the team
  • Ability to Drive Network Inventory Transformation working with Operation\CTIO and Architects  provide the right solution
  • Thought leadership on technical delivery and the E2E pipeline.

Skills

  • Stakeholder management
  • Escalation and Change request management
  • Technical program management
  • Agile delivery
  • Cloud native technology stack
  • Hands-on experience on either on MS or Java stack.
  • Have experience on User Interface technologies – Angular, React and Flutter.
  • Effective communications – written and verbal.
  • Creating a culture of continuous development that nurtures a world class software development practice.
  • Being a strong contributor within the Software Engineering profession.
  • Strong knowledge in producing and delivering complex Java/MS solutions with microservices architecture.
  • Experience in designing and implementing event driven architecture.
  • Experience in Streaming frameworks.
  • Experience in containerized deployments and cloud framework, AWS or similar.
  • Hand-on resource who can lead the multiple squads towards achieving the business outcomes.
  • Strong TOGAF fundamentals and designing AWS solutions.
  • Working knowledge of performance tuning of application and continuous integration techniques

Experience

  • Possess B. Tech or B.E. degree in Computer Science or related field. 
  • Possess typically above 12 years of previous software engineering or related experience.
  • Possess at least 3 years of people and performance management.
  • Effective leadership skills with strong motivational and people management skills that will influence and drive the team to success. 
  • Performance Management.
  • Ability to independently drive change within the team that will improve the overall efficiency and throughput.
  • A clear understanding of the business imperatives and how they align with the wider company strategy.
  • An extensive knowledge of the Business OSS / BSS stack.
  • The ability to build a strong and effective network of relationships that can be exploited to ensure that issues get resolved quicker.
  • Commitment to the role with regular out of hours working.
  • Focus on driving solutions rather than highlighting problems, working collaboratively across teams.
  • Coach, develop and mentor direct reports and matrix team, sharing best practice, to ensure team operates effectively to achieve business benefits.
  • Experience in working with technically complex deliveries.
  • Experience developing and designing Enterprise Application development Projects from an Engineering perspective.
    Self-starter who can lead the way by setting up prototypes for technical teams to follow

A FEW POINTS TO NOTE:

 

Although these roles are listed as full-time, if you’re a job share partnership, work reduced hours, or any other way of working flexibly, please still get in touch.

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