Why BT Group?

We’ve always been an organisation with purpose; we connect for good.   You can trace this back to our beginning as pioneers of the world’s first telecommunications company.  At our heart, we’re a technology company with research and innovation in our bones, and a desire to be personal, simple, and brilliant for our customers - the values we live by. Creating an inclusive working environment where people from all backgrounds can succeed.

Our pursuit of progress over the past 180 years has established BT as a strong, successful brand, with huge scale, capable of achieving great things.  From supporting emergency services, hospitals, banks and keeping economies around the world online, safe, and secure, to delivering large scale innovative technology infrastructure like the creation of BT Sport.  

Today, in this fast changing, always on, digital world, our purpose remains true. Yet the market conditions, regulation and competition we face are tougher than ever before.  So if you have the drive, optimism, and resilience to help propel us forward, we’ll offer unrivalled personal development, a wealth of opportunities to learn, experience new things, and pursue new careers.  If that’s you, and what you’re looking for.  

We’d love you to be part of our future.

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Why This Job Matters

As the reliance on the Internet and broadband increases, it is vital that we have the right software and systems in place to support the services we deliver, including basic broadband access, enhanced broadband with mobile backup, Next-Generation Voice (VoIP) and TV.

This role provides software architecture, thought leadership and solution design expertise across the broadband network and services space including access control, hybrid access combining fixed line and mobile, DNS, content delivery and caching, real-time session tracking and user identification and authentication services and associated data solutions.

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What You'll Be Doing

• Accountable for the overall ISP systems and software architecture

• Make strategic investment & technology choices to deliver on the strategy

• Accountable for modernising and simplifying our end-to-end software architecture to improve agility and time to market

• Responsible for ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements

• Responsible for requirements capture and solution design of new products and solutions

• Work with network experts to develop new products and solutions combining network and software technologies and components

• Collaborate cross Business Units and industry (via conferences etc.)  to share best of breed solutions and technology

• Mentor and coach the team of systems and software engineers

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The Skills You'll Need

• Excellent software engineering / computer science knowledge  

• Ability to coach and explain good software engineering concepts and principles like cohesion, coupling, DRY, SOLID, Separation of Concerns

• Excellent Java development skills

• Good knowledge of Python

• Unix / Linux system administration

• Good IP networking knowledge

• A desire to keep up to date with the latest trends and developments in software and systems including AI  

• Storytelling with data: strong skills in building the case for change, drawing on data and analytical techniques where appropriate, and communicating this to business audiences

• Business acumen: Knowledgeable in business strategy and the drivers of organisational performance, including people drivers of performance and financial literacy  (e.g. business KPIs, business cases)

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Leadership Accountabilities

• Take the right decisions that benefit the broader organisation

• Demonstrate strong commercial focus, bringing an external perspective to decision-making

• Experiment and identify opportunities for growth for both myself and the organisation

• Develop and demonstrate innovative ideas and proof of concept solutions via hackathons

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Experience You'd Be Expected To Have

• Significant experience of software engineering, systems architectures, products and solutions.

• Excellent IP networking switching and routing knowledge and associated IP services

• Experience working in an ISP and / or large-scale critical systems with five-nines availability

• Experience with virtualization and containerization (e.g. OpenStack, Docker, K8s)

• Experience with micro-services and servicemesh architectures, message-based systems and “big data” solutions

• In depth knowledge of software chain of custody and attestation