Why BT
Weve always been an organisation with purpose; to use the power of communications to make a better world. You can trace this back to our beginning as pioneers of the worlds first telecommunications company. At our heart were a technology company with research and innovation in our bones and a desire to be personal, simple, and brilliant for our customers - those are the values we live by whilst also creating an inclusive working environment where people from all backgrounds can succeed.
Our pursuit of progress over the past 180 years has established BT as a strong, successful brand, with huge scale capable of achieving great things. From supporting emergency services, hospitals, banks and keeping economies around the world online, safe and secure, to delivering large scale technology infrastructure like the creation of BT Sport.
Today in this fast changing, always on, digital world our purpose remains true. Yet the market conditions, regulation and competition we face are tougher than ever before. So if you have the drive, optimism and resilience to help propel us forward well offer unrivalled personal development, a wealth of opportunities to learn, experience new things and pursue new careers. If thats you and what youre looking for, wed love you to be part of our future.
Responsibilities
- Delivers the engineering strategy in ensuring the engineering organisations ability to deliver high quality on time and on budget and implementing means of bringing measurability as well as predictability to the engineering organisations capabilities
- Executes complex technical decisions, technology choices and architecture for a wide range of high-performance products, capabilities, and platforms, effectively balancing short-term impact with long-term transformation
- Resolves complex and strategic issues using advanced technical knowledge, across wider industry and/or specific sectors, and develops bespoke or leading edge, technically complex solutions (e.g., relating to new, un-tested technology and/or large-scale impact of products)
- Executes and contributes to the development of the ambitious and compelling technical roadmap to meet the needs of the business, engineering team, and partner teams
- Executes engineering and operational excellence initiatives, implementing metrics and process for regular assessment and improvement
- Drives an engineering culture that fosters innovation and creativity while delivering high quality products with predictability and reliability
- Solves complex and escalated aspects of a project, performing coding, debugging, testing and troubleshooting when necessary.
- Plays a positive contributor role in the software engineering organisation, implementing the technical vision and the pursuit of innovations regarding new technologies, platforms and applications
- Evaluates, implements and maintains high-quality tools and complex automation processes to support continuous delivery and developer productivity
- Implements new architectures, standards, and methods for large-scale enterprise systems
- Researches, designs and writes new software and performs deep dive data analysis, to identify issues and implement ways to improve working processes within the area of software engineering responsibility, such as avoiding and reducing technical debt
- Mentors other software engineers, helping to improve the teams abilities by acting as a technical resource
- Champions, continuously develops and shares with team knowledge on emerging trends and changes in software engineering
Skills
- Expert knowledge of a range of engineering capabilities and their potential capabilities across technologies
- Extensive experience of engineering platforms and cloud technologies
- Strong notions of software engineering, with a focus on large-scale, complex systems.
- Strong experience in any programming language with focus on Engineering Excellence.
- Experience in developing microservices-based applications with API standardization
- Working Exp various DB technologies
- Very good understanding of MEAN/LAMP stacks.
- Excellent troubleshooting/Debugging skills
- Awareness of critical concepts in DevOps and Agile principles
- Experience in working on DevOps and Monitoring tools e.g JIRA , Jenkins , ELK, Splunk , Dynatrrace
- Experience with AWS web applications, cloud-native applications, and cloud-based applications. AWS Certification, AWS Certified Developer is preferred.
- Strong experience with Java, Python, shell scripting and spring boot
- Strong experience with unit test and integration test build with different testing suites.
- Good understanding on CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins and understanding on Agile software development methodologies
- Experience designing microservices architecture and building RESTful web services and GraphQL
- Experience of Frontend development, in either React, Angular , Javascript, Flutter
- Working with any public cloud DevOps tool set.
- CI/CD Implementation: GitLab, Jenkins, Maven,Ansible,SonarCube,Nexus
- Experience in working on DevOps and Monitoring tools e.g JIRA , Jenkins , ELK, Splunk , Dynatrrace
Experience
- Worked extensively as Full Stack Developer/Engineer.
- Worked extensively in a range of software engineering roles
- Implementation of security & data management in alarge complex technology solutions
- Experience in the development of solution strategy and subsequent delivery
- Strong interpersonal skills, able to communicate across a broad spectrum of users
- Excellent oral, written and presentation communication skills
- Ability to manage through organizational change.
A FEW POINTS TO NOTE:
Although these roles are listed as full-time, if youre a job share partnership, work reduced hours, or any other way of working flexibly, please still get in touch.
DON'T MEET EVERY SINGLE REQUIREMENT
Studies have shown that women and people who are disabled, LGBTQ+, neurodiverse or from ethnic minority backgrounds are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification and criteria. We're committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace where everyone can be their best, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every requirement on the Job Description, please apply anyway - you may just be the right candidate for this or other roles in our wider team.
