Software Engineering Team Lead

British Broadcasting Corporation; London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 84,000

Job description

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Package Description

Job Reference: 13230
Band: D
Salary: up to £84,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Contract type: Permanent
Location: London - This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working.
We’re happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application. There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.
Excellent career progression – the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.
Unrivalled training and development opportunities – our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.
Benefits - We offer a negotiable salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym.

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Job Introduction

Are you looking for a role that builds on your experience of engineering systems? Are you keen to lead, grow and develop a team of talented engineers? Do you strive to create an environment in which people can flourish and be their best?

Would you like to work on websites and services that are used by millions of people each day? If so, this opportunity could be for you.

The Media Services team is responsible for all streaming across the BBC estate, whether you're watching a show on iPlayer or listening to a podcast on Sounds. Our systems utilise cloud services to prepare and deliver content in the right format and at the right quality for user devices to play smoothly and reliably. We provide a scalable, resilient, highly available infrastructure that millions of people rely on every day.

We are currently looking for a talented Software Engineering Team Lead. You will be a current or aspiring technology leader who has a passion for leading world-class engineering teams and developing, guiding, and mentoring people. You will be supported by the senior leadership within your area to enable you to build and develop your team and the people within it.

The BBC has a vision to be a modern, digital-led and streamlined organisation that derives the most value from the licence fee and delivers the best for audiences. Our backend engineering teams are a vital part of this strategy building efficient, reliable, sustainable services capable of serving content efficiently at scale.

Main Responsibilities

The Software Engineering Team Lead is a hybrid role mixing technical knowledge with people management skills.

Within this role you will lead a team of software engineers and be accountable for their output and the technical direction of their work.

• Be capable of leading a team in delivering engineering upgrades and improvement initiatives.
• Oversee day-to-day team operations ensuring adequate resource for KTLO, project, and internal initiatives.
• Create a culture that boosts morale, motivation, and general well-being of team members.
• Own a technical roadmap prioritising clear goals and objectives.
• Develop team members through coaching, mentoring, and providing practical guidance.
• Able to mediate and resolve conflict when the situation demands.
• Foster collaborative working relationships with product and delivery managers to ensure requirements are met and delivered accurately.
• Act as an escalation point for the team.
• Identify training requirements of the team and produce plans to remedy.
• Proactively look to improve systems and add efficiency to current processes and procedures.
• Manage the resource needs of the team leading recruitment and working with third parties as required.
• Contribute to the wider Media Services technical strategy.
• Mentor and support less experienced peers across the area.

Are you the right candidate?

• Able to adapt to the needs of a changing organisation.
• Be open-minded and willing to challenge the status quo.
• Be capable of leading, supporting and developing a multi-skilled team of software engineers.
• Have the flexibility to manage a large workload with changing priorities.
• Understands the architecture of modern backend systems and how data is managed and served across the internet.
• Be comfortable with modern ways of working such as Agile, DevOps, SRE.
• Able to communicate technical information to non-technical audiences.
• Able to challenge technical ideas and jargon.
• Manages stakeholder demand and organises the team to maintain focus on priorities.
• Effectively communicate with colleagues and stakeholders ensuring alignment with the wider BBC engineering community.
• Demonstrable experience in people managing a team of at least 7 engineers.
• Strong operational knowledge of AWS tooling and services.

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

Broadcast Media Production and Distribution