Engineering Manager

BBC; Newcastle upon Tyne; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

The BBC is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead software engineering teams, ensuring high-quality digital products. This hybrid role offers a chance to work with diverse teams, driving innovation and inclusivity. The position emphasizes leadership, collaboration, and technical expertise in a supportive environment, with excellent career progression and training opportunities.

Benefits

Flexible working

25 days annual leave

Defined pension scheme

Discounted health care

Gym membership

Qualifications

• Experience leading multiple software engineering teams.
• A track record of recruiting and building strong teams.
• Operational experience managing DevOps teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of Software Engineering teams with up to 50 staff.
• Manage multiple stakeholders in a complex matrix environment.
• Drive continuous improvement in software engineering practices.

Skills

Leadership

Collaboration

Diversity and Inclusion

Tools

Salesforce

Node.js

Java

SageMaker

Job description

This job is with BBC, an inclusive employer and a member of myGwork – the largest global platform for the LGBTQ+ business community. Please do not contact the recruiter directly.

This job is with BBC, an inclusive employer and a member of myGwork – the largest global platform for the LGBTQ+ business community. Please do not contact the recruiter directly.

Package Description

Job Title: Engineering Manager
Job Reference: 22697
Band: E
Salary: Up to £110k depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Contract type: Permanent role
Location: Office Base is Newcastle, Salford or London. This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working based on the needs of the role and their teams.
Closing Date: Thursday 22nd May 2025 at 23:59

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 [e-mail]. For any general queries, please contact: [e-mail].

Job Introduction

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 in an engineering role 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. We are looking for Software Engineering Managers to join the team. These are great opportunities to play a key role in the future of products used by millions.

The BBC offers an inclusive workplace where the principles of fairness, respect, equality, dignity and autonomy are promoted and are part of our everyday goals and behaviour. We select candidates for our positions on the basis of merit and as an equal opportunity employer we value diversity and all of the benefits it brings.

Interview process

Include a quick synopsis on what candidates can expect and expected durations for transparency.

Two stage interview process

• 1st stage - Virtual interview approx. one hour of technical and values based questions. Interviews expected to begin the week commencing 9th June.
• 2nd stage - Presentation and questions

Main Responsbilities

As a Software Engineering Manager, you will have responsibility for up to 50 staff, leading a team of Software Engineering teams, and directly line managing the Software Engineering Team Leaders and Principal Software Engineers. You will collaboratively guide change and improvement across your area whilst working closely with peers in Engineering and Architecture, and with other disciplines such as Product Management.

As we have multiple roles, we are looking for candidates with experience in building, managing and being accountable for one of the following technical areas:

• Marketing technologies and customer data platforms like Salesforce, mParticle or notifications platforms like Airship. ML engineering eco-systems, working with managed tools such as SageMaker.
• Trusted and scalable platform and services that power seamless and secure identity, access and personalisation experience. Including system and services allowing users to manage their privacy, devices and communications.
• Content publishing tools, workflows, systems and services to enable BBC journalists and content creators to author and describe their work, while also powering the BBC's audience experiences. These tools leverage technologies like Java and Node.js, incorporate generative AI, and are built on cloud infrastructure.

Are you the right candidate

Do you have some of the following?

People

• Experience leading multiple software engineering teams, with experience delivering platform capabilities
• A track record of recruiting and building strong teams and growing engineers and engineering leaders
• Experience creating and nurturing a diverse, welcoming and inclusive team,
• Experience fostering a positive, energising environment where everyone feels like they belong, can be their authentic selves, and can bring the best version of themselves to work, every day

Delivery

• Managing multiple stakeholders in a complex matrix environment including Product, UX/D, Architecture and Delivery
• Working collaboratively with your reports, peers and stakeholders to deliver work to ambitious time scales
• Experience delivering successful technical solutions to meet specific business requirements in agreed timescales

Technical

• Operational experience managing DevOps teams and ensuring high availability of products and services at scale
• Technical design and service architecture experience, particularly with large scale, high volume customer facing applications
• Driving continuous improvement in the software engineering craft, improving tooling, practices and processes

If you want to help us make the BBC the best place for people to work, build amazing products at scale that always work for our audience, then this is the perfect opportunity for you. You will be surrounded by like-minded professionals that believe in this mission and in the BBC.

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 behaviourshere.

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 clickhere.

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