Software Engineering Team Lead

ZipRecruiter; London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Software Engineering Team Lead to guide a cross-discipline team in delivering data insights. The role combines technical leadership with team management, focusing on creating a positive working environment and ensuring engineering excellence. Ideal candidates will have experience in software engineering and a passion for mentoring others, with a strong technical background in modern web technologies and AWS.

Benefits

Employer pension contribution up to 10%

26 days annual leave + bank holidays

Discounted gym memberships

Learning and development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experienced Team Lead with a background in Software Engineering.
• Ability to influence diverse and senior stakeholders.
• Committed to growing and hiring a diverse engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Lead a cross-discipline team delivering data insights.
• Recruit and support the growth of team members.
• Ensure alignment to key objectives and agile best practices.

Skills

Leadership

Software Engineering

Agile Practices

Tools

React

Typescript

Node

AWS

Job description

Job Description

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

Job Package

Band: D

Contract type: Permanent

Location: London - Hybrid Role (1-2 days in the office)

Our comprehensive benefits package includes:

• • An employer pension contribution of up to 10%
• • 26 days annual leave (based on full time hours) + bank holidays and the option to buy/sell additional days
• • Contributory lifestyle benefit options including discounts at hundreds of retailers, cycle to work scheme, discounted gym memberships and healthcare schemes
• • Employee assistance and well-being programmes
• • Learning and development tailored to your role - this could include industry recognised qualifications, coaching and mentoring
• • An inclusive and diverse environment with opportunities to join staff networks including: Women's Network, Networks and many more.

Family friendly flexible working arrangements, such as hybrid working, job sharing, flexi-time and compressed hours can be requested.

We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and especially welcome individuals from underrepresented groups.

If you require any reasonable adjustments at any time, please let us know by contacting us on [e-mail] with the job reference in the subject.

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.

Are you looking for a role that builds on your experience of engineering systems? Are you passionate about helping engineering teams do their best work? Do you care deeply about engineering principles, and the craft of Software Engineering? Do you care about delivering value for users?

If so, this opportunity could be for you.

Main Responsibilities

We are currently looking for a Software Engineering Team Lead for our Telescope team. Telescope are a full-stack group that deliver near real-time insights to our editorial colleagues, so they can make data informed decisions. Their work helps support the mission of the BBC to ensure we are keeping everyone informed about world events. Telescope is used in Newsrooms around the world, every day. This is a cross-discipline team, who are building not only the front-end experiences used by editorial staff, but also the infrastructure and data products required. They are part of a wider group of teams working on data insight tooling in our Data Platform department whose mission is to help ensure everyone at the BBC is able to make data informed decisions that benefit our audiences.

You will be someone who has a passion for leading world class engineering teams and developing, guiding and mentoring people. You will have a background in Software Engineering and have experience of delivering products and services that adhere to engineering best practices. You will have strong knowledge of building, deploying and maintaining systems, products and services, utilising a number of different technologies, tools and practices.

At the BBC, you will be working in partnership with the other supportive roles in the team, to deliver best in class product experiences, drive forward our technologies and support your engineers. You will be supported by the senior colleagues within your area to enable you to build and develop your team and the people within it.

Interview process

This role would require a virtual 2hr interview which will be made up of:

• A 55min technical presentation and discussion.
• A 10 min break.
• A 55min competency based interview around leadership and management.

Main Responsibilities

This is a hybrid role, mixing expert technical knowledge with setting the direction for your team, managing your engineers day to day and supporting their careers.

The focus of the role includes:

• People:
  • Recruiting people into your team to ensure you have a healthy, balanced, diverse, team.
  • Supporting the growth, progression, and performance of your team.
  • Creating a healthy team environment where everyone can bring their best, feel motivated by, and connected to, our mission.

• Culture:
  • Collaborate closely with delivery, product and UX leads to ensure the team is working in the most effective way possible, on the things that add the most value.
  • Creating a positive working relationship between your team and others within the BBC.
  • Ensuring alignment to key objectives and missions within your team.
  • Ensuring your team is following agile best practices and processes.
  • Promoting a culture of sharing, learning and good communication.
  • Finding ways to motivate your team and celebrating their successes.

• Technical:
  • Lead your team in the design, development and operation of effective software that meets complex requirements for the immediate team and broader BBC.
  • Work with other technical leaders in the broader organisation to define, document and distribute best practice and standards.
  • Helping ensure the team has the right processes, practices, and tools in place to help them deliver high quality software at scale.
  • Leading your team in defining your approaches to operational stability, quality, and testing.
  • Creating a culture of Engineering Excellence within your team.
  • Helping your team respond to live issues and incidents and leading the process of learning from them.
  • Ensure that the team's technical product documentation is always complete, accurate and coherent.

Are you the right candidate?

We don't expect everyone to have everything, and we are dedicated to supporting you in the role to grow and develop yourself when you arrive. We know that the ideal candidate doesn't exist, so let's have a conversation if you are interested.

Experience of leadership

• Experienced Team Lead with experience supporting Software Engineering teams.
• Recruitment, line management and mentoring experience.
• The ability to influence diverse and senior stakeholders.
• Establishing and promoting best practices within teams.
• Committed to growing and hiring a diverse engineering team.

Technical Stack & Experience

• Hands-on experience of Web development Technologies: React / Typescript / Javascript / JSX / Cypress / Node / NextJS
• Hands-on experience of AWS Technologies, such as: S3 / Redis / Mongo / Elastic / ECS / SQS / SNS or similar
• Experience of managing data infrastructure at scale including the transformation and storage of data utilising AWS technologies.

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 behaviours here.

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, socio-economic background, and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.

To find out more about careers and values at the BBC, please click here.

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