Software Engineering Manager

What I’ll be doing – your accountabilities

• Leading the software engineers in your agile squad and working with wider stakeholders in delivering FE journeys to BT and EE’s customers
• Driving the technical standards, culture and best practice for the engineers in the squad and the wider business
• Working with the wider engineering community within and outside of BT to contribute to our front-end frameworks and tooling
• Hands off backend development experience in Java, microservices and other frameworks, but needs to be close to code to understand clean architecture and best practices. Able to show an understanding of the full stack.
• Code reviews for the squads output
• Day to day line management, Recruitment, mentoring and goal setting for the front-end squad engineers, helping build both their careers and BT’s front-end capability
• Ensuring solutions are fit for purpose and conform to our architectural principles
• Working with the Product Owners, Architecture and test from across the group on solution architecture for your squads deliveries
• Maintain and grow relationships with strategic external partners and open source projects to influence their roadmaps and continue taking best advantage of their evolving capabilities
• Defining the monitoring strategy and inlife support for your team’s journeys including being part of an oncall rota
• Lead by example, living the company values: Personal, Simple & Brilliant
• Representing BT within the wider tech community helping communicate your own and the departments achievements

• Engineering leadership experience
• Demonstrable experience as a Senior/Lead digital Engineer providing strong technical direction for your teams output
• Solid Experience in Microservices Architecture
• Good exposure and up to date hands on experience with a range of Javascript Frameworks/Libraries with an emphasis on React and Next.JS
• Team lead experience including recruitment, line management, mentoring and building a culture of technical excellence
• Experience of Agile development practices and techniques
• Ability to build strong relationships both within and outside of the team and department
• Demonstrate analytical / systematic approach to problem solving
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills across all levels of business (inc technical and non-technical)
• Self-starter with an ability to take accountability for both your own and the wider squads work on a day to day basis in order to ensure business objectives are met
• Able to define and articulate technical and non-functional requirements for solutions
• Motivated by new tech and able to take responsibility for ongoing learning and professional development (both your own and driving the squads)