Principal Software Engineer

Job Req ID: 31731

Posting Date: 13 May 2024

Function: Software Engineering

Unit: Digital

Location:

Riverside Tower, Belfast (N.I), United Kingdom

Salary: Competitive with great benefits

Why this job matters

The purpose of the Principal software engineering role is to develop solutions to highly complex problems.

When working with other Principal Software Engineers, this role will have a wider area of impact and will cross multiple domains, products, teams, and/or systems, with a primary focus within a unit.

Keeping up to date with current thinking in the industry and sharing back knowledge effectively with the Software Engineering and BT at large.

Maintaining a high degree of trust and reputation with external parties.

Working in this job, you’ll be a critical part of delivering BT’s Digital transformation.

You’ll be engineering the next generation of technology to support BTs new IT architecture founded on agile engineering, DevOps and cloud native principles.

This is a hybrid role (3 days a week in the office) based in Belfast or Bristol.

What you’ll be doing

• Technical software engineering lead across Spoke apps components :

• Sets strategy and how the components are engineered and deployed

• Works with the software developers to transform our Devops approaches

• Expert in software engineering, monitoring, tuning and scaling

• Deep knowledge of the application estate and traffic flows

• Deep knowledge of stack operation and technical design across the software stacks and processes

• Adherence to architecture strategy and patterns.

• Devops leadership and rollout

• Provides key operational insights and proactive actions underpinning health of our software applications

• Joined up approach to cross stack correlation and monitoring

• Drives software engineering excellence and the modernisation of engineering practice

• Identifies industry trends and new engineering approaches/technolgoies, lead on related Proof of Concept work and provide recommendations on when to scale further or to wind down

• Reviews of software solutions to ensure correct level of monitoring, reporting, logging has been added at code authoring stage to ensure an effective operational maintenance and reporting solution is achieved

• Applies specialist expertise to deliver technical work that is typically unique, complex, and high impact across multiple domains and/or requiring both breadth and depth of domain knowledge

• Mentors and coaches experienced professionals to develop current and future team capabilities and ensure performance

Skills

• Cloud software design and engineering:

• strong skills in architecting cloud native software and integration of SaaS and on-premises software solutions.

• Ability to set our generic standards and patterns, with clean documentation and guidance for large development teams.

• Strong understanding of document based databases; when to use and how to scale.

• Architecture and solutions design:

• skills in complex architecture definition and solutions design involving multiple components across architectural domains are a must.

• Knowledge of domain-driven principles and ability to decompose into well defined functional domains

• Agile:

• previous experience and skills working in an Agile team;

• appreciation and skills running Agile Ceremonies;

• knowledge of SCRUM methodologies.

• Agile software engineering:

• strong skills and experience building software in an agile team;

• track record implementing DevOps, microservice

• cloud engineering patterns and techniques.

• Be tech savvy:

• Provides comprehensive technical expertise on emerging technologies.

• Coordinates technology knowledge sharing with the team.

• Testing concepts:

• Highly knowledgeable about a wide range of testing issues, within the context of software development practice, and able to advise and guide others.

• Familiar with modern testing approaches e.g. consumer-driven contract testing

Experience

• Highly experienced software engineer familiar with telco stacks and technologies used within covering cots and home grown applications

• Agile experience

• 5-10 years experience (or equivalent) in software engineering and architecture

Benefits

• Competitive salary

• 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)

• 15% on target bonus

• Company car cash allowance

• Life Assurance

• Pension scheme

• Private Medical cover

• Direct share scheme

• 50% off EE mobile pay monthly or SIM only plans

• Exclusive colleague discounts on our latest and greatest BT broadband packages

• BT TV with TNT Sports and NOW Entertainment

• 50% discount for friends and family on EE SIM Only plans & airtime element off a Flex Pay plan

Our leadership standards

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.

About us

BT is part of BT Group, along with EE, Openreach, and Plusnet.

Millions of people rely on us every day to help them live their lives, power their businesses, and keep their public services running. We connect friends to family, clients to colleagues, people to possibilities. We keep the wheels of business spinning, and the emergency services responding.

We value diversity and celebrate difference. ‘We embed diversity and inclusion into everything that we do. It’s fundamental to our purpose: we connect for good.’

We all stick to the same values: Personal, Simple, and Brilliant. From day one, you’ll get stuck in to tough challenges, pitch in with ideas, make things happen. But you won’t be alone: we’ll be there with help and support, learning and development.

This is your chance to make a real difference to the world: to be part of the digital transformation of countless lives and businesses. Grab it.

A FEW POINTS TO NOTE:

Although these roles are listed as full-time, if you’re a job share partnership, work reduced hours, or any other way of working flexibly, please still get in touch.

DON'T MEET EVERY SINGLE REQUIREMENT?

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