Software Engineering Professional

Why this job matters

The Software Engineering Professional supports the execution of the software engineering strategy and roadmap that supports BT's commercial strategy through cross functional project and technical delivery and the participation of a team that pursues innovation as well as engineering excellence.

What you’ll be doing

Principal Responsibilities:
•    Prepare technical specification document based on functional specifications document prepared by functional designer.
•    Ability to understand how technology supports business and organization goals & accordingly propose and review solutions/ approaches using various technologies/ tools available in market, based on which the implementation very well fit within allotted budget and timelines.
•    Regular review of various ongoing project implementations to ensure maximum efficiency and performance from the deliverables.
•    Ensure compliance with company standards and procedures by ensuring timely review with Chief and platform architects.
•    Build and maintain strong relationship with various stakeholders within BT Technology and Openreach through regular meetings and communications.
•    Provide direction and guidance to internal teams on technology front.
•    Regular upskilling of various technologies (as required for the role) by learning latest developments in the market.
•    Conducting training sessions and seminars on various technologies and tools, for internal (within BT) and external (Vendor) teams.
•    Come up with innovative and exciting ideas those can add value to business
•    Coordinate and work with vendor teams across various locations, while performing his/ her roles and responsibilities.
•    Travel to UK & within India across different BT and vendor offices on business visits (2 to 3 weeks) as per project needs, to gather business needs or contribute/ influence in formulating overall strategy and / or attend seminars as applicable.
Essential Skills 
•    Possess excellent Telecom domain knowledge, to understand Openreach IT stack
•    Possess typically demonstrable previous software engineering or related experience.
•    Possess strong technology skills for following –
•    Micro services driven architecture & associated tools (like Spring Boot Java, etc.)
•    CICD DevOps framework and associated tools (Jenkins, ZUUL, GitLab, Subversion, Apache Maven, Junit, Docker, etc.)
•    BPM framework and associated tools (Camunda)
•    Ux wireframes Design (like Mockflow, Axure, etc.) and UI development tools (like Angular JS, etc.)
•    Java, C++, HTML, CSS, etc.
•    Provide technical and functional guidance and direction to team members 
•    Possess excellent written and oral communication skills
•    Experience in working with geographically dispersed teams
Overall Skills and Experience 
•    Experience working across Waterfall and Agile methodology driven projects
•    Experience working in complex projects & across different technologies.
•    Self-starter who can lead the way by setting up prototypes for vendor technical teams to follow
•    Contribute to the definition of the team processes and standards 
•    In depth understanding of Telecom product offering

Qualifications
•    Possess B.E. or equivalent degree in Computer Science or related field 

Desirable
•    Working with large Telco service providers is a plus
•    Telecom certifications
•    Technology certifications
•    Experience in working with geographically dispersed teams