22 hours ago
London, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Define end-to-end architectures for AI-native, cloud-native, data-intensive, and distributed systems.
- Translate business problems into technical specifications, acceptance criteria, and non-functional requirements.
- Use and orchestrate AI agents across design, coding, testing, documentation, infrastructure, and deployment activities.
- Establish engineering patterns, guardrails, prompts, review criteria, and governance practices for AI-assisted software delivery.
- Design scalable, secure, resilient systems involving cloud platforms, APIs, event-driven architectures, data pipelines, and observability.
- Assure functional, security, performance, resilience, and operational readiness in partnership with test engineers.
- Communicate technical decisions to users, engineers, product owners, senior leaders, and business stakeholders.
- Coach engineers in systems thinking, AI-native engineering, software fundamentals, and technical decision-making.
- Improve specifications, agent workflows, and delivery accelerators using incident feedback, cost insights, and production signals.
Requirements
- Extensive experience designing complex software systems, distributed systems, data platforms, or cloud-native services.
- Practical experience using AI-assisted engineering tools or coding agents for software delivery, testing, documentation, or design.
- Strong knowledge of algorithms, data structures, concurrency, operating systems, networking, APIs, integration patterns, and performance trade-offs.
- Experience with cloud compute platforms, preferably AWS, including architecture, security, observability, deployment, and cost considerations.
- Programming experience with Go, Rust, C, C++, Java, or equivalent; Python experience is desirable.
- Proven ability to set technical direction, resolve complex design trade-offs, and guide engineering teams through ambiguity.
- Experience embedding secure-by-design, test-first, observable, and compliant engineering practices into delivery workflows.
- Experience owning complex technical designs from problem framing through production release and operational support.
- Demonstrable understanding of how to validate, govern, and improve AI-generated engineering artifacts.
- Experience with cloud services, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, observability, security controls, and production support models.
- Ability to work directly with users to clarify requirements and define acceptance criteria.
- AWS Solutions Architect Associate or Professional certification, or equivalent cloud architecture experience, is desirable.
- Telecoms, network operations, RAN/Core analytics, data engineering, AIOps, anomaly detection, root-cause analysis, operational automation, event-driven architectures, lakehouse patterns, streaming data, model-assisted development, or agent orchestration experience is desirable.
Benefits
- 15% on-target bonus.
- Company car or £5,500 cash alternative.
- Private healthcare for the employee and family.
- 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 support, healthcare, and season-ticket loans.
- Training and development opportunities.
- Option to join BT Shares Saving schemes.
- Discounted broadband, mobile, and TV packages plus retail discounts.
- Role is available in UK-wide offices including London, Manchester, Bristol, Ipswich, and Birmingham.
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.