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Software Engineering Manager - Platform Squads

Job Req ID:  12228
Posting Date:  12 Apr 2024
Function:  Software Engineering
Unit:  Digital
Location: 

Snowhill, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Salary:  Competitive with Benefits

Recruiter:Molly Lees

Hiring Manager: Bernard Mensah 

Career Grade: D

Internal Closing Date: November 2023 

About the role:

You will be joining Platforms team within Enterprise Digital and be responsible for one or two squads 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. Your squads will focus on building IAC (Infrastructure as Code) using non-traditional tools such as Pulumi and implementing capabilities that allow developers to develop and deploy to the cloud faster and securely.  And as a 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. 

What you will be doing

  • 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

  • A fast learner – Our work within Platforms is varied and we work across the full developer lifecycle. 
  • Passion for automation with a reluctance for manual implementation 
  • 4+ years of experience in building software products in Typescript. Java is a bonus. 
  • 2+ years of experience in a team leadership position where you were responsible for career growth and mentorship of team members. 
  • An appreciation for working in the cloud and an understanding of cloud principles. We will provide opportunities for AWS training, but bonus points for already having that experience. 
  • 3+ years of experience with agile systems development methodologies 
  • 3+ years' experience with cloud computing on AWS. 
  • 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

About us

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.

 

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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