1 day ago
London, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Deliver engineering strategy and improve the quality, predictability, measurability, and reliability of engineering delivery.
- Make complex technical, architectural, and technology decisions for high-performance products, platforms, and capabilities.
- Resolve complex and escalated technical issues and develop technically complex solutions with potentially large-scale impact.
- Contribute to technical roadmaps aligned with business, engineering, and partner-team needs.
- Drive engineering and operational excellence initiatives, including metrics, assessment, and continuous improvement processes.
- Write, test, review, debug, troubleshoot, and maintain software independently.
- Implement technical vision and contribute to innovation involving new technologies, platforms, and applications.
- Evaluate, implement, and maintain tools and automation supporting continuous delivery and developer productivity.
- Design and implement scalable ETL data-processing and data-engineering workflows using Python and Apache Spark.
- Collaborate with design, operations, vendors, customers, and cross-functional engineering teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, or a relevant field.
- Strong proficiency in Python, Java, or C# with experience building robust systems or applications.
- Extensive experience with software architecture and solution design, including microservices, distributed systems, and cloud-native architectures.
- Deep understanding of software development principles, design patterns, modular architecture, test-driven development, and version control.
- Experience with Spec-Driven Development and AI-supported software practices.
- Experience integrating software with APIs, network systems, or telemetry platforms, ideally in telecommunications or operational environments.
- Ability to design and specify microservice architectures and larger-scale components and solutions from technical requirements.
- Hands-on experience with automation frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and scripting.
- Proficiency with virtualization and orchestration tools such as Docker, OpenStack, and VMware.
- Familiarity with observability and monitoring practices and strong problem-solving skills for cross-domain technical challenges.
- Strong documentation, communication, knowledge-sharing, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Strong knowledge of cloud concepts, architecture patterns, and best practices.
- Proven experience designing, implementing, and maintaining software solutions.
- Hands-on experience with a cloud platform, with AWS preferred.
- Advanced proficiency in Python and Apache Spark, with a focus on ETL data processing and scalable data-engineering workflows.
Benefits
- 10% on-target bonus.
- BT Pension scheme with a minimum 5% employee contribution and 10% BT contribution.
- Equal family leave from January 2025, including 18 weeks at full pay, 8 weeks at half pay, and 26 weeks at the statutory rate.
- 25 days of annual leave excluding bank holidays, increasing with service.
- Flexible benefits including cycle-to-work, healthcare, and season-ticket loan options.
- World-class training and development opportunities.
- Option to join BT Shares Saving schemes.
- Discounted broadband, mobile, and TV packages.
- Access to hundreds of retail discounts, including the BT shop.
- Location: London.
Categories
BackendData Engineering
About BT
BT Group builds and operates telecom networks and digital services for consumers, enterprises, and public‑sector clients, selling broadband, fixed-line voice, mobile (via EE), and managed network, cloud, and cyber security services. It is headquartered in London and listed on the London Stock Exchange, with American depositary shares on the NYSE. BT also owns Openreach, which manages the UK’s fibre and copper access network used by multiple retail providers.