Software Engineering Team Lead - C&M Team Salford
Location: Salford, GB, M50 2QH
Contract Type: Permanent - Full Time
Salary: Up to £94,900 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience.
Closing Date: 26/01/2025
THE ROLE
This is an exciting opportunity to join a new team in Product Group that will enable a step change in the ways audiences can discover, access and consume our content. You’ll be helping to evolve tooling that enables editorial teams to chapterise content via a variety of approaches, from manual to fully automated.
You’ll work with teams from across the BBC to advise and assist on integrating with their products and services.
Main Responsibilities
The role of a Software Engineering Team Lead is a hybrid role; mixing expert technical knowledge with leading your team and managing your engineer's day to day and their careers. You will be responsible for managing and leading a software engineering team in the effective design, implementation and operation of BBC software products and services.
The focus of the role includes:
* People: Recruit, mentor, coach and manage staff, assuring the quality of their work and professional development.
* Environment: Create an environment in which people can be their best.
* Technical Expertise: Work with your team and across the wider technical community to improve our software, share knowledge and improve processes/practices.
Are you the right candidate?
We’re looking for candidates with a background in software engineering, with the ability to build and nurture diverse and inclusive engineering teams. You would ideally have experience in some, but not necessarily all, of the following areas and technologies:
* Track record of growing engineers with a focus on mentoring, coaching and development.
* Experience of designing, building and supporting robust, large-scale applications in a fast-changing environment.
* Experience of managing multiple technical and non-technical stakeholders.
* Ability to communicate complex technology solutions clearly.
* Skilled in dealing with multiple product and technical priorities.
Technical Skills & Experience:
* Expertise in Cloud architecture and key technologies (CloudFormation, Lambda, SQS, S3).
* Expertise in modern development tools and practices (e.g. CI/CD, DevOps, Observability).
* Expertise in choosing and applying design patterns.
* Developing software with scale, security and reliability in mind.
Virtual interview: approx. 90 minutes of technical and values-based questions. Interviews will be held week commencing 3rd February 2025.
About the BBC
The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC for different reasons. We don’t focus simply on what we do – we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us.
Diversity matters at the BBC. We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.
DISCLAIMER
This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance.
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