Software Engineering Specialist

Software Engineering Specialist

Job Req ID: 860 Posting Date: 23-Feb-2023 Function: Software Engineering Location: Martlesham Heath Business Park, Ipswich, United Kingdom Salary: Competitive About BT BT has a key role in British society, fostering change and leading technology innovation. From delivering the Olympics, to supporting the emergency services, to investing more into research than any other UK technology company, we take pride in everything we do - and in the people who work here.
We're now a global company operating at the forefront of the information age, employing 90,000 people in 180 countries. And we're on a mission. Guided by our core values of Personal, Simple and Brilliant our goal is to help customers, communities and businesses overcome barriers and release their potential.
So, if you're interested in the power of potential, why not join us today and release yours? You can read more here about what it's like to work at BT.
Why this role matters? This role is key to have deep technical and functional knowledge to ensure we continue to support business while it is transitioning from Copper to Fibre. We will be doing re-platforming, transformation, rationalization, simplification for various systems and this role would be key to future strategy using deep technical and functional knowledge. You will have experience in solution designing and managing different stakeholders/vendors. Understand the telecom domain well enough, especially network design and survey phase of telecom along with Service design and logical inventory, physical and logical planning, and ability to act as domain focal point and understand need of multiple projects and communicate them divisionally and/or cross-divisionally.
Responsibilities:

• Strong Knowledge in Complex workstreams delivery of Openreach
• Strong Knowledge in Workforce management, cross platform apps,
• Knowledgeable in setting up governance model of medium to large projects.
• Improve resilience in our ability to facilitate mobile planners to perform network design and survey. This is the most important service area for OR when it comes to drive fast fibre commissioning target.
• Deliver all production management capabilities for Business complex delivery (Ethernet etc) through Orion and Mobility stack
• Rationalize and simplify the legacy stack by closing down legacy systems
• Define and own implementation of BT’s strategy of cost-transformation at the unit level. Target: While the target is on an annual basis, the strategy to achieve efficiencies year-on-year span across 3-5 years. For example, insourcing, colocation, vendor strategy, systems strategy, etc
• Develop Architecture and Engineering roadmap in conjunction with Architecture & Transformation
• Own the security, compliance, upgrade, patching, provisioning & decommissioning of infrastructure estate as per published plans
• Provide third line support for all components owned the unit.
• Operational Risk identification & mitigation

Skills Required:

• Technical skills on Front end (React JS, Type Script, and OpenLayers usage) and backend (Kotlin, Ktor) Developer
• Strong Knowledge in Complex workstreams delivery of Openreach
• Strong Knowledge in cross-platform application development
• Development experience using Agile methodology along with exposure to DevOps tools
• Knowledgeable in setting up governance model of medium to large projects.
• Strong trait in problem solving
• Exposure data security
• Exposure to EU-GDPR requirements

Benefits:

• 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)

• Up to 10% on target bonus
• Pension scheme
• Share save scheme
• 50% off BT and EE mobile pay monthly or SIM only plans
• Exclusive colleague discounts on our latest and greatest BT broadband packages, including BT Sport and the NOW Entertainment membership, NOW Sport, Cinema and Kids.
We value different perspectives, skills and experiences. Diversity makes sense for us, our customers and our ambitions. We’re creating an inclusive working culture where people from all backgrounds can succeed. That’s why we welcome applications from all parts of the community.
Who is the BT Group
We're the leading communications provider with customers in 180 countries. Across the world we enable customer's digital transformations so they can thrive. our focus is simple: be the global provider-of-choice for managed network and IT infrastructure services..