Software Engineering Manager

What I’ll be doing – your accountabilities:

• Manage the engineering delivery of your squad to achieve your squad objectives by working within a cross-functional squad consisting of Engineers, QAs, PO, BA and Delivery Managers.
• Ready to do hands-on development and create technical designs as and when required.
• Perform code reviews for the squads output.
• Ensuring solutions are fit for purpose and conform to our architectural principles by working closely with Solution Architects, Principal Engineers and Lead Developers.
• Lead the squad sprint ceremonios and meetings to ensure all requirements are refined clearly, efforts sized, capacity planned and required plans are created.
• Ensure all non-functional requirements such as accessibility, analytics, reporting, performance and observability are delivered along with all functional requirements.
• Manage your squad technical dependencies and releases by working closely with Release Management team.
• Day to day line management, recruitment, mentoring and goal setting for squad engineers and QAs, helping build their careers.
• Maintain and grow relationships with wider squads within BT to influence their roadmaps and continue taking best advantage of their evolving capabilities.
• Driving the technical standards, culture and best practice for the engineers in the squad and the wider Tribe.
• Working with the wider engineering community within BT to contribute to our platforms, frameworks and tooling.
• Lead by example, living the company values: Personal, Simple & Brilliant.
• Representing your squad within the wider engineering community helping communicate your own and the squad achievements.

Skills required for the job:

• Demonstrable experience as an Engineering Manager/Tech Lead providing strong technical direction for your teams output.
• Good exposure and up to date hands on experience with either front-end development in React or back-end development in Java.
• Team lead experience including recruitment, line management, mentoring and building a culture of technical excellence.
• Experience of Agile development practices and techniques.
• Experience of doing hand-on technical design by collaborating with Architects and Engineers.
• 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).

Experience you would be expected to have

• 8+ years in multi-disciplined software application development, multi app / multi-platform.
• Java or any backend programming experience 5+.
• React and Next.JS, 3+ years experience.
• Flutter Experience with Smartphone App Development IOS, Android, Kotlin.
• Deep understanding of all Engineering practices involved in SDLC such as Branching, Code Reviews, Builds, Deployments, Test Automation, Performance Testing and Observability.
• Experience with cloud AWS or Azure.
• Experience in managing global and geographically dispersed outsourced resources.
• Experience in managing delivery of highly transactional platforms that are available 24/7.
• Experience in running teams of this scale, composed of insourced and outsourced resources.
• Have a good level of knowledge / experience of Agile software development, and supporting best practices: DevOps, BDD, TDD, Pair Programming etc.