Software Engineering Specialist

BT Group; Ipswich; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

10% on target annual bonus

Private GP 24/7

Carers leave 2 weeks

Maternity/Paternity/Adoption leave

BT product discounts

Pension scheme

Holiday purchase scheme

Job summary

BT Group's Secure Contracts unit seeks an experienced architect to set architecture direction and provide technical leadership across the engineering team, focusing on government contracts and sovereign product initiatives. The role blends hands-on delivery with architecture governance to support winning new business and guiding strategic technology choices.

You will lead technical discovery, shape scalable, secure designs, and ensure compliance with enterprise guardrails while mentoring

Qualifications

• Proven experience designing and governing scalable, secure enterprise solutions.
• Ability to lead technical discovery workshops and capture requirements.
• Experience delivering within highly regulated environments is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Delivers deep technical and repeatable solutions that meet customer requirements.
• Guides stakeholders to conduct business and technical discovery.
• Creates robust proposals and scopes of work for group engagements.
• Develops repeatable architectures to resolve complex problems.
• Mentors solution architects and advocates architecture governance.
• Aligns with Enterprise Architecture guardrails and patterns.

Skills

Solution architecture

Enterprise Architecture

Technical leadership

Stakeholder management

Governance

Mentoring

Design authority

Security by design

Tools

Azure

AWS

CI/CD

Automation

Job description

Secure Contracts is an organization within BT designed to serve the UK Government. We are here to underpin public safety and national security. You will be working on modernising services to government and delivering new contract capabilities as well as maintaining the security posture of existing contracts and services. With the launch of Sovereign Products and a push into defence industries the responsibilities of Secure Contracts is expanding. This role will set the architecture and technical guidance in the software engineering space and bring architectural leadership and guidance to our existing team. The role will be there to support the solution design manager in a technical capacity. This is a hybrid "hands on technical and Architecture" role that will support winning new business, influencing key stakeholders (internal and external) and technically working with and leading the technical strategy for the engineering team.

What you'll be doing

• Delivers deep technical and repeatable solutions that achieve customer requirements driving positive outcomes
• Guides partnerships with business and operational stakeholders to conduct business and technical discovery
• Implements robust recommendations, proposals and scope of work documents for group engagements while also identifying critical dependencies and gaps
• Delivers the creation of innovative and repeatable solution architectures to resolve a range of complex solution architecture problems and meet agreed requirements
• Facilitates business stakeholders' understanding of capabilities and the transformative power of group products, services and technology
• Drives the team culture of enhancing the solution architect team's knowledge, methodologies and customer-facing collateral
• Executes alignment with Enterprise Architecture guardrails and solution patterns
• Contributes to thought leadership and provides advice on a specific set of technologies to help senior leadership shape the long-term direction of solution architecture strategy
• Delivers complex, strategic initiatives that are a part of the company's overall commercial Strategy
• Champions, continuously develops and shares with team knowledge on emerging trends and changes in solution architecture
• Mentors other solution architects, helping to improve the team's abilities by acting as a technical resource
• Act as the technical expert on architecture governance and design authority for development of products and services in line with the published roadmap

Essential Skills / Experience

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• Secure-by-Design & Regulated Environments: Proven experience delivering solutions within highly regulated, security-sensitive or compliance-driven environments. Strong understanding of secure-by-design principles, OWASP, threat modelling, identity and access management, least-privilege principles and non-functional requirements.
• Software Engineering Authority: Extensive software engineering background with mastery of modern development practices, code quality standards, automated testing, CI/CD and technical governance. Ability to mentor engineers and provide technical decision-making authority across the engineering function.

Desirable Skills / Experience

• Debugging and Troubleshooting: Exceptional skills in identifying and fixing complex issues across the stack.
• Data Structures & Algorithms: Using complex data structures to optimize application performance.
• DevOps & Infrastructure: Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, containerisation, observability and platform automation. Experience of multi-tenanted, cloud-native, distributed or microservices-based architectures.
• Experience working within government, defence, telecommunications, financial services, utilities or other highly regulated environments.
• CISP, CISSP, TOGAF, Azure/AWS Architecture certifications or demonstrable equivalent experience. BT Group is the UK's leading communications group and the holding company behind some of the country's most recognised brands - including BT, EE, Openreach and Plusnet. Our purpose is as simple as it is ambitious: we connect for good. Our customers include consumers, small, medium and large businesses, public sector organisations and other communications providers.

About BT Group

BT Group's role is about setting direction, unlocking value and creating the conditions for our brands and businesses to thrive. Having come through the most capital-intensive phase of our fibre investment, our focus now is on what comes next - simplifying how we operate, using technology and AI to work smarter, and organising ourselves to serve customers better and grow sustainably. Group teams shape strategy, policy, brand, capital allocation and transformation, helping the whole organisation perform at its best. We have a singular culture that unites all our people: we are customer-first challengers, who are committed, clear and connected. These behaviours unite us as one team to deliver for our colleagues, our customers, our stakeholders and the country. Joining BT Group means working at the heart of a business that matters to the UK, with the opportunity to shape decisions, influence outcomes and help set the future course of one of the country's most important companies.

Benefits

• 10% on target annual bonus
• Access to an online private GP 24/7 for you and your immediate family
• Market-leading paid carers leave with up to 2 weeks off
• Equalized maternity, paternity, and adoption leave - 18 weeks' full pay and 8 weeks' half pay
• Discounted EE and BT products, including mobile and broadband
• Market leading Pension scheme - 5% from you and 10% from us
• Holiday purchase scheme