Software Engineering Team Lead Software Engineering Team Lead

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.

This role is to join our Engineering Enablement department who are a vital part of this strategy, providing platform and organisational capabilities that let all BBC engineering teams develop and build efficient, reliable, sustainable services fast, and foster a community that helps constantly improve organisational practices and results.

The Engineering Enablement teams are
responsible for simplifying AWS account management, easing application deployments through a common deployment platform, whilst providing health and security viewpoints to multiple levels of the organisation.

We are growing the number of teams supporting this critical platform underpinning the BBC. You have the opportunity to create a brand-new team from scratch. Leading the recruitment, shaping the culture and practices, helping them develop and integrate with our existing teams. Do you strive to create an environment in which people can flourish and be their best? Would you like to work on developing the platforms that enable services that are used by millions of people each day? If so, this opportunity could be for you.

Our engineers receive 10% development time built into the 35 hour working week. We want to give you the time and space to stay fresh in the ever-changing technology landscape., This is a hybrid role, mixing managing your teams capacity, setting the direction, supporting their careers and collaborating with your technical knowledge.

The focus of the role includes:

People:

• Creating a healthy team environment where everyone can bring their best and feel motivated.


• Supporting the growth, progression, and performance of your team.


• Recruiting people into your team to ensure you have a healthy, balanced, diverse, team.


Culture:

• Creating a culture of Engineering Excellence within your team.


• Finding ways to motivate your team and celebrating their successes.


• Helping ensure the team has the right processes, practices, and tools in place to help them deliver.


Technical:

• Lead your team in the design, development, and operation of effective software.


• Leading your team in defining your approaches to operational stability, quality, and testing.


• Ensure that the team's technical product documentation is always complete, accurate and coherent.


Over the next couple of years some key projects you could be involved with are:

• Development of tools to identify risks and automate vulnerability patching in the cloud accounts and exposure of these via a centralised online portal.


• Creation of BBC tailored cloud native base Linux OS images for different architectures for use across the organisation.


• Tooling that enables CI/CD and encourages cloud best practices.
  
  A two hour interview made up of two parts will be conducted to evaluate your suitability for this role:


• A 55min technical presentation and discussion.


• A 10 min break.


• A 55min competency based interview around leadership and management., Experience of leadership


• Experienced Team Lead with experience of supporting

Software Engineering teams

• Recruitment, line management and mentoring experience.


• Establishing and promoting best practices within teams. (Agile and collaborative software development)


• Committed to growing and hiring a diverse engineering team.


Technical Stack & Experience

• Cloud Expertise: Experience with cloud technologies (preferably AWS) for infrastructure setup, software deployments, operational monitoring


• Software Development: Experience of guiding technical direction of a complex system, considering both short-term and long-term effects of decisions.


• Non-Functional Requirements: Exposure to non-functional requirements such as monitoring, observability, and maintainability (through readable code and documentation).


• Deployment Automation: Experience and understanding of creating and maintaining automated pipelines for deployment to production.
  
  The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC for different reasons and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.


We don't focus simply on what we do - we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. Please make sure you've read about our values and behaviours here.

Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential.

We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to be part of the BBC - whether that's to contribute to our programming or our wide range of non-production roles. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.

We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.

Our comprehensive benefits package includes:


• An employer pension contribution of up to 10%


• 26 days' annual leave (based on full time hours) + bank holidays and the option to buy/sell additional days


• Contributory lifestyle benefit options including discounts at hundreds of retailers, cycle to work scheme, discounted gym memberships and healthcare schemes


• Employee assistance and well-being programmes


• Learning and development tailored to your role - this could include industry recognised qualifications, coaching and mentoring


• An inclusive and diverse environment with opportunities to join staff networks including: Women's Network, National Disability Networks and many more.


Family friendly flexible working arrangements, such as hybrid working, job sharing, flexi-time and compressed hours can be requested.

We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and especially welcome individuals from underrepresented groups.