Software Engineering Team Lead – C&M Team Salford

Job Band

Job Reference: SF19956

Band: D

Salary: Up to £94,900 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: Office Base is Salford. This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working.

Closing date for this advert is midnight on the 26 January 2025.

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. You can find out more about working at the BBC by selecting this link to our candidate pack. 

If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process please contact the reasonable.adjustments@bbc.co.uk. For any general queries, please contact: bbchr@bbc.co.uk.

Job Purpose

This is an exciting opportunity to join a new team in Product Group that will enable a step change in the ways audiences can discover, access and consume our content. This new team will provide tooling that enables editorial teams to chapterise content via a variety of approaches, from manual to fully automated. A prototype has already been used to chapterise the World Cup, Euros, and Glastonbury.

You’ll be helping to evolve this tool to support chapter production and use as it scales across our content offering and product estate. You’ll work with teams from across the BBC to advise and assist on integrating with their products and services. This could be upstream (e.g. working on microservices that condition live third-party sports metadata into Chapters), or downstream (e.g. assisting iPlayer and Sounds with integration into their products).

We want the BBC to be as renowned for the quality of its engineering as it is for the quality of its content. We aspire to be the best so that we can engineer outstanding digital products, at scale. Working here means being part of a world-class team and a chance to do the most meaningful work of your career. The BBC’s digital products play a key role in our mission to inform, educate and entertain the audience. This is a great opportunity to play a key role in the future of products used by millions.

The BBC Engineering community is a dynamic and supportive one, and there are frequent opportunities to collaborate with other teams. We value our people, offering regular training and development opportunities, as well as dedicated time for self-improvement, learning and innovation.

Main Responsibilities

The role of a Software Engineering Team Lead is a hybrid role; mixing expert technical knowledge with leading your team and managing your engineer’s day to day and their careers. You will be responsible for managing and leading a software engineering team in the effective design, implementation and operation of BBC software products and services.

The focus of the role includes:

• People: Recruit, mentor, coach and manage staff, 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 department leaders to create a positive and diverse working culture and working with peers to create continuity and alignment across the teams.
• Technical Expertise: Working with your team and across the wider technical community to improve our software, share knowledge and improve processes / practices when developing software.

Are you the right candidate?

We’re looking for candidates with a background in software engineering, with the ability to build and nurture diverse and inclusive engineering teams. You would ideally have experience in some, but not necessarily all, of the following areas and technologies:

• Track record of growing engineers with a focus on mentoring, coaching and development
• Experience of designing, building and supporting robust, large-scale applications in a fast-changing environment with rapid release cycles
• Experience of managing multiple technical and non-technical stakeholders in a complex, agile, matrix environment
• Ability to communicate complex technology solutions in a clear and coherent way to different audiences.
• Skilled in dealing with multiple product and technical priorities with a focus on practical decision making.

Technical Skills & Experience:

• Expertise designing, building and supporting modern Cloud based applications using Typescript/JavaScript, NodeJS and AWS
• Expertise in Cloud architecture and key technologies (CloudFormation, Lambda, SQS, S3)
• Expertise in modern development tools and practices (e.g. CI/CD, DevOps, Observability, Pair Programming, TDD)
• Expertise in choosing and applying design patterns.
• Developing software with scale, security and reliability in mind.

Interview process

Virtual interview – approx. 90 minutes of technical and values-based questions. Interviews will be held week commencing 3rd February 2025. 

About the BBC

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.

To find out more about Diversity and Inclusion at the BBC, please click here.

Job Band

Job Reference: SF19956

Band: D

Salary: Up to £94,900 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: Office Base is Salford. This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working.

Closing date for this advert is midnight on the 26 January 2025.

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. You can find out more about working at the BBC by selecting this link to our candidate pack. 

If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process please contact the reasonable.adjustments@bbc.co.uk. For any general queries, please contact: bbchr@bbc.co.uk.

Job Purpose

This is an exciting opportunity to join a new team in Product Group that will enable a step change in the ways audiences can discover, access and consume our content. This new team will provide tooling that enables editorial teams to chapterise content via a variety of approaches, from manual to fully automated. A prototype has already been used to chapterise the World Cup, Euros, and Glastonbury.

You’ll be helping to evolve this tool to support chapter production and use as it scales across our content offering and product estate. You’ll work with teams from across the BBC to advise and assist on integrating with their products and services. This could be upstream (e.g. working on microservices that condition live third-party sports metadata into Chapters), or downstream (e.g. assisting iPlayer and Sounds with integration into their products).

We want the BBC to be as renowned for the quality of its engineering as it is for the quality of its content. We aspire to be the best so that we can engineer outstanding digital products, at scale. Working here means being part of a world-class team and a chance to do the most meaningful work of your career. The BBC’s digital products play a key role in our mission to inform, educate and entertain the audience. This is a great opportunity to play a key role in the future of products used by millions.

The BBC Engineering community is a dynamic and supportive one, and there are frequent opportunities to collaborate with other teams. We value our people, offering regular training and development opportunities, as well as dedicated time for self-improvement, learning and innovation.

Main Responsibilities

The role of a Software Engineering Team Lead is a hybrid role; mixing expert technical knowledge with leading your team and managing your engineer’s day to day and their careers. You will be responsible for managing and leading a software engineering team in the effective design, implementation and operation of BBC software products and services.

The focus of the role includes:

• People: Recruit, mentor, coach and manage staff, 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 department leaders to create a positive and diverse working culture and working with peers to create continuity and alignment across the teams.
• Technical Expertise: Working with your team and across the wider technical community to improve our software, share knowledge and improve processes / practices when developing software.

Are you the right candidate?

We’re looking for candidates with a background in software engineering, with the ability to build and nurture diverse and inclusive engineering teams. You would ideally have experience in some, but not necessarily all, of the following areas and technologies:

• Track record of growing engineers with a focus on mentoring, coaching and development
• Experience of designing, building and supporting robust, large-scale applications in a fast-changing environment with rapid release cycles
• Experience of managing multiple technical and non-technical stakeholders in a complex, agile, matrix environment
• Ability to communicate complex technology solutions in a clear and coherent way to different audiences.
• Skilled in dealing with multiple product and technical priorities with a focus on practical decision making.

Technical Skills & Experience:

• Expertise designing, building and supporting modern Cloud based applications using Typescript/JavaScript, NodeJS and AWS
• Expertise in Cloud architecture and key technologies (CloudFormation, Lambda, SQS, S3)
• Expertise in modern development tools and practices (e.g. CI/CD, DevOps, Observability, Pair Programming, TDD)
• Expertise in choosing and applying design patterns.
• Developing software with scale, security and reliability in mind.

Interview process

Virtual interview – approx. 90 minutes of technical and values-based questions. Interviews will be held week commencing 3rd February 2025. 

About the BBC

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.

To find out more about Diversity and Inclusion at the BBC, please click here.

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