Software Engineering Manager - Microservices

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Software Engineering Manager - Microservices, Southampton

Client:

BT Group

Location:

Southampton, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

EU work permit required:

Yes

Job Reference:

0de5f0bf225b

Job Views:

3

Posted:

30.03.2025

Expiry Date:

14.05.2025

Job Description:

What you’ll be doing:

• Active member of the Engineering Leadership team
• Acts as the key point of contact for internal customers and Product Owner community
• Responsible for platform technical roadmap creation and prioritisation aligned to agreed business outcomes
• 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.
• Manages day-to-day performance, delivery efficiency and quality of outsourced software development, engineering, and testing resources, located in different global locations
• Manages internal and external suppliers to ensure quality outcomes
• 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
• Decides on test technology and techniques, which will be transformed from manual to automated practices
• Monitors and drives fixes for all live defects / bugs
• Accountable for all code security and compliance
• Works with Operations and Support teams
• Understanding complex / conflicting business requirements and delivering to tight deadlines
• Signing off estimates for work packages to be delivered by the team
• Manage risks and issues raised during the release cycle, ensuring that all stakeholders respond to requests within agreed timeframes.

Skills:

• 5+ years in multi-disciplined software application development, multi app / multi-platform
• Experience of managing app development teams/working knowledge of App Development: IOS, Android, Kotlin, Flutter
• Experience in running teams of this scale, composed of insourced and outsourced geographically dispersed resources
• Have a good level of knowledge / experience of Agile software development, and supporting best practices: TDD, Pair Programming etc.
• Experience in managing delivery of highly transactional platforms that are available 24/7
• Experience with DevOps CI/CD pipelines using e.g., Jenkins, tools built into GitLab

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:

• Annual On target bonus 10% (personal and company multipliers)
• BT Pension scheme; minimum 5% employee contribution, BT contribution 10%
• Life Assurance
• Exclusive colleague discounts on our latest and greatest BT broadband packages
• 50% off EE mobile pay monthly or SIM only plans and 50% discount for friends and family on EE SIM only plans
• My Discounts gives colleagues access to unbeatable savings on everyday purchases at hundreds of retailers
• Discounted EE TV including TNT Sport and the NOW Entertainment membership
• Great support for working parents including pay whilst on maternity, adoptive, and paternity leave
• Option to join the Healthcare Cash Plan or other benefits such as dental insurance, gym memberships etc.
• 25 days annual leave (not including bank holidays), increasing with service with buy holiday option
• Volunteering days so you can give back to your local community
• Brand new electric vehicle salary sacrifice arrangement, known as ‘My EV’