2 days ago
Birmingham, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Lead technical execution and delivery of complex software solutions across products and platforms.
- Shape engineering standards, practices, technical decisions, and technical roadmaps.
- Guide implementation of scalable, maintainable, and high-quality software products and services.
- Solve complex technical and operational challenges and improve service reliability, resilience, observability, and operational efficiency.
- Use engineering metrics, service data, and operational insight to reduce risk and drive continuous improvement.
- Manage technical dependencies, risks, issues, and stakeholder relationships across teams and business units.
- Coach and mentor engineers while promoting engineering excellence, knowledge sharing, and accountability.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and practices to improve products, engineering effectiveness, and customer outcomes.
Requirements
- Proven ability to design, develop, test, troubleshoot, and support high-quality, scalable, and maintainable software.
- Experience leading the end-to-end technical delivery of complex software products or platforms in an Agile environment.
- Ability to influence technical decisions, challenge assumptions, and collaborate with architects, engineers, and stakeholders across multiple teams and business units.
- Experience delivering large and complex technical initiatives while managing dependencies, risks, and issues.
- Strong experience with cloud technologies, particularly AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and OpenStack.
- Experience implementing automated delivery pipelines and Infrastructure as Code.
- Experience improving software engineering quality, reliability, maintainability, and operational efficiency.
- Strong coding, debugging, testing, and troubleshooting skills using Ruby, Python, or Java.
- Experience with Docker, Docker Compose, and Kubernetes.
- Experience with ELK Stack, Kafka, Monit, Telegraf, and Prometheus for monitoring, observability, and data work.
- Experience using engineering metrics and data analysis to improve ways of working and reduce technical debt.
- Experience mentoring and developing engineers and working with SQL, Oracle, and PostgreSQL databases.
Benefits
- 10% on-target annual bonus.
- 24/7 access to an online private GP for the employee and immediate family.
- Paid carers leave of up to 2 weeks.
- Equalised maternity, paternity, and adoption leave, including 18 weeks at full pay and 8 weeks at half pay.
- Discounts on EE and BT mobile and broadband products.
- Market-leading pension scheme with 5% employee contributions and 10% employer contributions.
- Holiday purchase scheme.
- Optional additional benefits including healthcare, dental, and gym memberships.
- Location: Birmingham; closing date: 14th November 2026.
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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.