2 hours ago
Birmingham, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Define and drive the strategic roadmap for CDN, content delivery and edge computing services.
- Lead the architecture and delivery of scalable CDN and edge compute solutions across software, networking, cloud and distributed infrastructure.
- Evaluate emerging technologies, market trends and business opportunities involving content distribution, edge computing and AI at the network edge.
- Develop technical propositions and business cases, assess build-buy-partner options, and support negotiations, bids, RFPs and go-to-market activities.
- Influence senior and executive stakeholders across engineering, commercial, research and partner organisations.
- Establish architectural standards, design patterns and best practices for the CDN and edge computing domain.
- Mentor and coach architects, engineers and designers and promote technical capability growth.
- Drive platform and operating-model evolution through automation, agile delivery practices and modern engineering approaches.
Requirements
- Deep knowledge of CDN technologies, content distribution architectures and edge computing platforms.
- Significant experience in media, broadcast, telecommunications, content delivery, hyperscale or service-provider environments.
- A proven record of defining technology strategy, product direction and multi-year roadmaps for large-scale customer-facing services.
- Strong solution architecture experience designing and delivering complex end-to-end solutions.
- Broad knowledge of IP networking, cloud platforms, software engineering, broadband, mobile and content distribution technologies.
- Experience evaluating build, buy and partner approaches and supporting business cases, supplier engagement, RFPs and strategic partnerships.
- Ability to translate technical and market insights into innovative, commercially viable products and services.
- Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills through senior leadership and executive levels.
- Experience with agile delivery and modern product development environments.
- Experience with AI and machine learning workloads at the network edge is desirable.
- Knowledge of television distribution, multicast, gaming delivery and cloud-native platforms is desirable.
- Experience combining solution architecture, product strategy and technical product ownership is desirable.
- Product management or Product Owner certification is desirable.
Benefits
- Hybrid working arrangement with three days per week in the office and two days from home.
- Company car scheme or cash alternative.
- 15% on-target annual bonus.
- Private healthcare for the employee and family, plus access to a 24/7 online private GP.
- Paid carers leave of up to two weeks.
- Equalised maternity, paternity and adoption leave with 18 weeks’ full pay and 8 weeks’ half pay.
- Discounted EE and BT mobile and broadband products.
- Pension scheme with 5% employee and 10% employer contributions.
- Holiday purchase scheme.
- Optional additional healthcare, dental and gym membership benefits.
Categories
Solutions Engineering
About BT
We’re one of the world’s leading communications services companies. At BT Group, the solutions we sell are integral to modern life. Our purpose is as simple as it is ambitious: we connect for good. There are no limits to what people can do when they connect. And as technology changes our world, connections are becoming even more important to everyday life. Today, that’s truer than ever. The connections we make are helping solve the world’s biggest challenges such as the global pandemic, climate change and cyber security. Through the power of technology, we’re supporting customers to live, work and play together better.