Job Description

Why BT?
We\'ve always been an organisation with purpose; to use the power of communications to make a better world. 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 - those are the values we live by whilst also 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 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.

Experience Required

• Hands on experience of minimum 8 years to maximum 13 years.
• Demonstrated track record of a good understanding of programming, software development and engineering principles.
• Demonstrated experience in applying Agile Software development processes.
• Familiar with good practices for writing and debugging code.
• Knowledge of testing tools and techniques.
• Demonstrated experience in creating secure RESTful APIs. (Preferred)
• Familiar with consuming ML endpoints and 3rd party APIs.(Preferred)
• Ability to work independently or help more junior software engineers with coding or software-related issues. (Preferred)
• Experience working on complex programming projects for telecom or other real-life domains.(Preferred)
• Experience with productionasing cloud-based applications.(Preferred)

• Delivers the engineering strategy in ensuring the engineering organisation\'s ability to deliver high quality on time and on budget and implementing means of bringing measurability as well as predictability to the engineering organisation\'s capabilities
• Executes complex technical decisions, technology choices and architecture for a wide range of high performance products, capabilities, and platforms, effectively balancing short-term impact with long-term transformation
• Resolves complex and strategic issues using advanced technical knowledge, across the wider industry and/or specific sectors, and develops bespoke or leading edge, technically complex solutions (e.g., relating to new, un-tested technology and/or large scale impact of products)
• Executes and contributes to the development of the ambitious and compelling technical roadmap to meet the needs of the business, engineering team, and partner teams
• Executes engineering and operational excellence initiatives, implementing metrics and processes for regular assessment and improvement
• Drives an engineering culture that fosters innovation and creativity while delivering high-quality products with predictability and reliability
• Writes, tests and reviews code, refining and rewriting as necessary independently and communicates to engineering professionals and colleagues involved in the project
• Solves complex and escalated aspects of a project, performing coding, debugging, testing and troubleshooting when necessary
• Plays a positive contributor role in the software engineering organisation, implementing the technical vision and the pursuit of innovations regarding new technologies, platforms and applications
• Evaluates, implements and maintains high-quality tools and complex automation processes to support continuous delivery and developer productivity
• Implements new architectures, standards, and methods for large-scale enterprise systems

• Agile Development: Uses a group of software development methodologies based on iterative development, where requirements and solutions evolve through collaboration between self organising cross-functional teams.
• Algorithm Design: Develops methods or a mathematical process for problem-solving and engineering algorithms.
• APIs/Web Service Integration: Develops message protocols that allow distributed elements of an application to communicate.
• Application Development: Creates a computer program or a set of programs to perform the different tasks that a business requires.
• Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning: Applies knowledge of artificial intelligence and machine learning from a data perspective and understands potential data applications to improve overall business outcomes.
• Cloud Computing: Uses a network of remote servers hosted on the Internet to store, manage, and process data, rather than a local server or a personal computer.
• Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment Automation & Orchestration: Tests each change done to a codebase automatically and as early as possible, pushing changes to a staging or production system.
• Database Design/Development: Applies processes that facilitate the designing, development, implementation and maintenance of enterprise data management systems.
• Debugging: Finds and resolves bugs within computer programmes, software, or systems.
• IT Security: Protects information and information systems against unauthorised access or modification of information.
• Microservices/Service Oriented Architecture: Develops software systems, focusing on building single-function modules with well-defined interfaces and operations.

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