BT Jobs – Software Engineering

About the job

Job Req ID:

2169

Posting Date:

29-Sep-2023

Function:

Engineering

Location:

Snowhill, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Salary:

Competitive with great benefits

All available locations for this role are: Birmingham, Manchester, London, Leeds & Bristol (Hybrid Model)

About BT

BT has a key role in British society, fostering change and leading technology innovation. From delivering the Olympics, to supporting the emergency services, to investing more into research than any other UK technology company, we take pride in everything we do – and in the people who work here.

We’re now a global company operating at the forefront of the information age, employing 90,000 people in 180 countries. And we’re on a mission. Guided by our core values of Personal, Simple and Brilliant our goal is to help customers, communities and businesses overcome barriers and release their potential.

So, if you’re interested in the power of potential, why not join us today and release yours? You can read more here about what it’s like to work at BT.

About This Role

In this role you’ll be leading the engineering team building the chat and conversational capability used across our brands. This is a key position that working with our tech partners, stakeholders and the customer service teams will help shape and deliver a best in class digital customer experience across our support and sales channels.

You’ll Have The Following Responsibilities

• Active member of the Engineering Leadership team
• Act as the key technical point of contact for internal customers and the product Owner community digital capability
• Responsible for platform technical roadmap creation and prioritisation aligned to agreed business outcomes
• Coaches and manages a cross functional teams of developers, testers, analysts and DevOps Engineers building digital capability
• Decides on test technology and techniques, which will be transformed from manual to automated practices
• Decides priorities for defect management & Technical debt
• Monitors and drives fixes for live defects / bugs
• Accountable for code security and compliance
• Works with Operations and Support teams as required
• Understanding complex / conflicting business requirements and delivering to tight deadlines

You’ll Have The Following Skills & Experience

• Experience leading teams building digital product and APIs in a high volume environment – either as a development manager or technical lead
• Excellent internal and external senior stakeholder management
• Enthusiastic Agile practitioner
• Technical expertise across Development, Testing, Test Automation and CI/CD pipelines
• Knowledge about Cloud Solutions design and deployment
• Understanding / curiosity of emerging technologies
• Problem Solving and analytical skills
• Able to identify, recruit and train the next generation of software engineers and testers
• 6+ years in multi-disciplined software application development, multi app / multi-platform
• Experience in delivery of highly transactional platforms that are available 24/7
• Experience in leading development teams, composed of insourced and outsourced resources
• Worked with and refined DevOps CI/CD pipelines
• Exposure to BDD & TDD approaches and tooling
• Knowledge of Javascript, Java and web architecture

“Nice to have” skillset:

• Knowledge of Flutter app development
• Knowledge of React.js web development

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
• 10% on target bonus
• Life Assurance
• Pension scheme
• Option to join the Healthcare Cash Plan or other benefits such as dental insurance, gym memberships etc.
• 50% off BT and EE mobile pay monthly or SIM only plans
• Exclusive colleague discounts on our latest and greatest BT broadband packages
• BT TV, including BT Sport and the NOW Entertainment membership, and 25% off NOW Sport, Cinema and Kids
• 30% discount for friends and family on EE mobile pay monthly and SIM only plans

About British Telecom

We’re the leading communications provider with customers in 180 countries. Across the world we enable customer’s digital transformations so they can thrive. our focus is simple: be the global provider-of-choice for managed network and IT infrastructure services..