Software Engineering Manager

Why this job matters

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.

What you’ll be doing

Leading the software engineers in your agile squad and working with wider stakeholders in delivering Digital journeys across
Corporate Units to our customer facing units
Driving the culture, technical standards, and best practice for the engineers in the squad and the wider business
Working with the wider engineering community within and outside of BT to contribute to our frameworks and tooling
Hands on development in Java, Net Cracker RBM, PL-SQL and Oracle database
Chunking requirements at granular level, maintaining Scrum/Kanban boards.
Day to day line management, Recruitment, mentoring and goal setting for the squad engineers, helping build both their
careers and BT’s capability
Ensuring solutions are fit for purpose and conform to our architectural principles
Working with the Product Owners, Architecture and test from across the group on solution architecture for your squads
deliveries
Maintain and grow relationships with strategic external partners and open source projects to influence their roadmaps and
continue taking best advantage of their evolving capabilities
Defining the monitoring strategy and inlife support for your team’s journeys
Lead by example, living the company values: Personal, Simple & Brilliant
Representing BT within the wider tech community helping communicate your own and the departments achievements

The skills you’ll need

Demonstrable experience as an Engineering Manager/Tech Lead providing strong technical direction for your teams output
Good exposure and up to date hands on experience with front-end development in React/Angular, bank-end development in
Java and related opensource technologies.
Good experience on Net Cracker RBM billing tool and finance domain.
Very good understanding of DevOps, CI CD tooling, TDD engineering practices
Team lead experience including recruitment, line management, mentoring and building a culture of technical excellence
Experience of Agile development practices and techniques.
Experince of doing hand-on technical design by collaborating with Architects and Engineers
Ability to build strong relationships both within and outside of the team and department
Demonstrate analytical / systematic approach to problem solving
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills across all levels of business (inc technical and non-technical)
Self-starter with an ability to take accountability for both your own and the wider squads work on a day to day basis in order
to ensure business objectives are met
Able to define and articulate technical and non-functional requirements for solutions
Motivated by new tech and able to take responsibility for ongoing learning and professional development (both your own and
driving the squads)
Fundamental understanding of the key technologies relevant to integration solutions, including SSO, SAML, SSL, Webservices,
LDAP, JDBC, ODBC, REST

Experience

7+ years in multi-disciplined software application development, multi app / multi-platform
Java, springboot, pl-sql any backend programming experience 3+
Experience in Net Cracker RBM or similar product - min. 3 years in designing and managing the implementation and
maintenance of medium and large-sized projects
Good to have Angular / React and Next.JS experience
DevOps experience including BDD and TDD 2+ years
Experience in running a Scrum / Kanban team and managing JiRA dashboards.
Experience with cloud AWS or Azure
Experience in managing global and geographically dispersed outsourced resources
Experience in managing delivery of highly transactional platforms that are available 24/7
Experience in running teams of this scale, composed of insourced and outsourced resources
Have a good level of knowledge / experience of Agile software development, and supporting best practices: TDD, Pair
Programming etc.
 

Our leadership standards

Looking in:
Leading inclusively and Safely
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.