Software Engineering Team Lead at BBC

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

The BBC Account team is responsible for building trusted and scalable services that power seamless and secure identity, access and personalised experiences. Every day, these are used by millions of people on key BBC products including iPlayer, Sounds, News, Sport, and Bitesize. This gives our work unparalleled reach across web, TV, and mobile experiences. As a Software Engineering Team Lead in Account, you will drive forward teams delivering robust platform capabilities and exciting new functionality in our ambition to make a personalised digital-first BBC for everyone.

WHY JOIN THE TEAM

• We are looking for current or aspiring technology leaders who have a passion for leading high performing engineering teams and developing, guiding and mentoring people. Our multi-disciplinary agile teams use the latest technologies, inspire innovation and have autonomy. You will be surrounded by like-minded technology professionals from whom you can learn and grow in an environment where we love to share ideas and challenge the traditional. We also promote a healthy work-life balance with opportunities for flexible working hours.

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT:

• The role of a Software Engineering Team Lead is a hybrid role, mixing expert technical knowledge with leading your team, managing engineers’ day to day, and developing their careers.
• The focus of the role includes:
• People: Recruit, mentor, coach and line manage permanent and nearshore/onshore teams, assuring the quality of their work and professional development.
• Environment: Create an environment in which people can be their best. This will involve working with the Account and Identity technical leadership team to create a positive and diverse working culture and working with peers to create continuity and alignment across the teams.
• Technical Expertise: Work across the technical estate of Identity and Access management - improve our software and products to be aligned with Platform Principles, share knowledge, and improve development life cycle processes.
• Deliver: Drive the execution of new features and platform capabilities. Work closely with other disciplines to understand the projects we are delivering. Empower your team to plan work, overcome challenges, and deliver results.

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:

• A track record of building effective software engineering teams (both staff and 3rd party) with a focus on mentoring, coaching and development.
• Experience leading engineering teams to deliver effective software solutions, including managing teams through designing, writing and supporting large-scale tech stacks.
• Proficiency building and maintaining infrastructure on cloud platforms and effective and resilient CI/CD pipelines.
• Expertise in one or more mainstream development languages – we primarily use JavaScript, TypeScript and Java.
• Ability to communicate complex technology solutions in a clear and coherent way to different audiences, including to effectively manage multiple technical and non-technical stakeholders.

DESIRED BUT NOT REQUIRED:

• Confidence in effective recruitment of engineers across a range of disciplines and skill levels.
• Experience working with Identity and Access Management systems.
• Knowledge of AWS cloud infrastructure and services. Including experience with AWS; CDK, CloudFormation, Lambda, EC2, Kinesis, WAF, ALB.
• Experience working on zero down time systems and providing live support in the event of service disruption.

If you can bring some of these skills and experience, along with transferable strengths, we’d love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.