What you’ll be doing
1. Active member of the Engineering Leadership team
2. Acts as the key point of contact for internal customers and Product Owner community
3. Responsible for platform technical roadmap creation and prioritisation aligned to agreed business outcomes
4. Manages the planning, co-ordination, and day-to-day development, testing and delivery of high quality, stable e2e digital solutions to drive EE/BT Self-Serve products/business requirements and objectives, working across geographically dispersed squads within a tribe.
5. Manages day-to-day performance, delivery efficiency and quality of outsourced software development, engineering, and testing resources, located in different global locations
6. Manages internal and external suppliers to ensure quality outcomes
7. Coaches and manages teams of developers, testers and DevOps Engineers building high volume of front-end web pages every week based upon requirements from stakeholders
8. Decides on test technology and techniques, which will be transformed from manual to automated practices
9. Decides priorities for defect management & Technical debt
10. Monitors and drives fixes for all live defects / bugs
11. Accountable for all code security and compliance
12. Works with Operations and Support teams
13. Understanding complex / conflicting business requirements and delivering to tight deadlines
14. Signing off estimates for work packages to be delivered by the team
15. Manage risks and issues raised during the release cycle, ensuring that all stakeholders respond to requests within agreed timeframes.
Skills
16. 5+ years in multi-disciplined software application development, multi app / multi-platform
17. Experience of managing app development teams/working knowledge of App Development: IOS, Android, Kotlin, Flutter
18. Experience in running teams of this scale, composed of insourced and outsourced geographically dispersed resources
19. Microservice/API development experience
20. Azure B/C & Azure AD Architecture awareness.
21. Hands on development experience
22. Good database knowledge (SQL, etc…)
23. Have a good level of knowledge / experience of Agile software development, and supporting best practices: TDD, Pair Programming etc.
24. Experience in managing delivery of highly transactional platforms that are available 24/7
25. Experience with DevOps CI/CD pipelines using e.g., Jenkins, tools built into GitLab
Our leadership standards
Looking in:
Leading inclusively and Safely
I inspire and build trust through self-awareness, honesty and integrity.
Owning outcomes
I take the right decisions that benefit the broader organisation.
Looking out:
Delivering for the customer
I execute brilliantly on clear priorities that add value to our customers and the wider business.
Commercially savvy
I demonstrate strong commercial focus, bringing an external perspective to decision-making.
Looking to the future:
Growth mindset
I experiment and identify opportunities for growth for both myself and the organisation.
Building for the future
I build diverse future-ready teams where all individuals can be at their best.
Benefits
26. Annual On target bonus 10% (personal and company multipliers)
27. BT Pension scheme; minimum 5% employee contribution, BT contribution 10%
28. Life Assurance
29. Direct share scheme
30. Exclusive colleague discounts on our latest and greatest BT broadband packages
31. 50% off EE mobile pay monthly or SIM only plans and 50% discount for friends and family on EE SIM only plans
32. My Discounts gives colleagues access to unbeatable savings on everyday purchases at hundreds of retailers
33. Discounted EE TV including TNT Sport and the NOW Entertainment membership
34. Great support for working parents including pay whilst on maternity, adoptive, and paternity leave
35. Option to join the Healthcare Cash Plan or other benefits such as dental insurance, gym memberships etc.
36. 25 days annual leave (not including bank holidays), increasing with service with buy holiday option
37. Volunteering days so you can give back to your local community
38. Brand new electric vehicle salary sacrifice arrangement, known as ‘My EV’