16 hours ago
Ipswich, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Design and govern scalable, secure, and highly available enterprise software solutions.
- Lead technical discovery workshops, capture requirements, evaluate architectural options, and establish engineering standards across multiple teams.
- Create repeatable solution architectures, recommendations, proposals, and scopes of work for complex customer and business requirements.
- Provide technical leadership for solution architecture strategy, architecture governance, and design authority for products and services.
- Work with internal and external stakeholders to shape technical solutions and support new business opportunities.
- Apply secure-by-design principles, threat modelling, identity and access management, least-privilege principles, and non-functional requirements.
- Mentor engineers and solution architects while sharing knowledge of emerging trends, methodologies, and architecture practices.
- Deliver strategic initiatives and advise senior leadership on the long-term direction of solution architecture.
Requirements
- Extensive software engineering experience with modern development practices, code quality standards, automated testing, and technical governance.
- Proven experience designing and governing scalable, secure, and highly available enterprise solutions.
- Experience delivering software in highly regulated, security-sensitive, or compliance-driven environments.
- Strong understanding of secure-by-design principles, OWASP, threat modelling, identity and access management, least-privilege principles, and non-functional requirements.
- Ability to provide technical decision-making authority and mentor engineers across the engineering function.
- Exceptional debugging and troubleshooting skills across the stack.
- Experience with data structures and algorithms for application performance optimization.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, containerisation, observability, and platform automation.
- Experience with multi-tenanted, cloud-native, distributed, or microservices-based architectures.
- Experience in government, defence, telecommunications, financial services, utilities, or other highly regulated environments is desirable.
- CISP, CISSP, TOGAF, Azure Architecture, or AWS Architecture certification, or demonstrable equivalent experience, is desirable.
- Eligibility for the required security clearance is necessary.
Benefits
- Hybrid working model with three days together in the Ipswich or Bristol office and two days wherever.
- 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 two weeks.
- Equalized maternity, paternity, and adoption leave with 18 weeks’ full pay and 8 weeks’ half pay.
- Discounted EE and BT mobile and broadband products.
- Market-leading pension scheme with 5% employee and 10% employer contributions.
- Holiday purchase scheme.
- Optional healthcare, dental, gym memberships, and other additional benefits.
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.