Why this job matters

This role oversees the Security Engineering Centre of Excellence, shaping the strategic direction of the federated engineering community delivering BT's security capabilities to maximise effectiveness and efficiency of the overall ecosystem and optimising working with commercial security delivery in our strategy for BT to consume the services we sell to customers.

This role can be based in the following locations and follows hybrid working: Adastral Park, Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, London or Manchester (Some international travel required)

What you'll be doing

1. Provides operational excellence and discipline in security engineering, leveraging latest agile and platform engineering approaches to maximise the effectiveness of the federated security engineering community.
2. Mentors, coaches, and manages several teams to develop current and future team capabilities and ensure performance in delivering the most impactful features to both internal and external users of the BT team
3. Leads the federated teams in adopting relevant new technologies, tools, methods and processes that progressively advances service capabilities to its different stakeholders
4. Defines the governance that defines the federated model of security engineering in collaboration with all stakeholders and oversees its operation and effectiveness
5. Oversees engineering and operational excellence initiatives, implementing metrics and processes for regular assessment and improvement through the implementation of processes and tools supporting multiple platforms
6. Ensures team standards of engineering and operational excellence are upheld, establishing metrics and processes for regular assessment and improvement through the creation and implementation of processes and tools supporting multiple platforms
7. Drives an engineering culture that supports innovation and creativity while delivering high quality products with predictability and reliability
8. Builds 'best-in-class' engineering for services by ensuring that the services and the components are well-defined and modularised, secure, reliable, diagnosable, actively monitored and reusable
9. Leads the evaluation and implementation of high-quality tools and automation processes to support continuous delivery and developer productivity
10. Ensures the development and adoption of a DevOps mindset across the engineering teams
11. Leads the implementation of continuous improvement opportunities to improve the software engineering team processes
12. Oversees the end to end innovation, development and testing ecosystems to ensure federated engineering can be integrated in a holistic way
13. Drives a culture of automated software testing, behaviour driven development and ensuring security is front of mind to ensure our security capabilities are exemplars of compliance to our security standards and guidance

Skills Required for the Role

• Ability to communicate and influence effective in influencing strategic direction at director level as well as with external partners/industry.
• Inspiring communicator: experience presenting to and influencing senior audiences
• You maintain a deep expertise in modern software engineering, agile techniques and integrating capabilities into a wider eco system. You use these skills and knowledge to guide the business in optimising security engineering across BT.
• Understanding of Cloud Computing, SaaS services, Service Orientated Architectures and integration to build a modern cloud ecosystem
• You examine many potential ideas and evaluate each one against our business goals and strategy. You provide guidance and expertise and coach others to investigate new information and discover new insights and possibilities.
• You lead collaborative ways of working and continuous improvement. You encourage their adoption where necessary to deliver the best results for the customer.
• Be a great communicator in explaining how things should be done and why.

Experience Required for the Role

• At least 2 years experience in a senior software/platform engineering role
• Experience of agile development, CI/CT/CD pipelines and behaviour driven development.
• Experience in managing diverse teams in multi geographies, including matrix managed resource federated across an organisation.
• Demonstrate inclusive leadership and a growth mindset
• An awareness of IT security and understanding of the importance of building security early into engineering delivery.
• Typically qualified to degree level, or equivalent professional experience in Computer Science, Engineering, or related degree.
• Appropriate software engineers qualifications
• Member of a professional body e.g. British Computing Society.

Benefits

At BT, we entertain, educate, and empower millions of people every single day. We're a brand built on connecting people - whether that's friends, family, businesses, or communities. Working here, you'll receive an attractive salary and a range of competitive benefits, but - more than that - you'll be joining an ambitious organisation with a culture of togetherness, collaboration, and inclusivity, that takes a genuine and proactive interest in your progress and development.

• Competitive salary
• 15% on target bonus
• Company car or £5,500 cash alternative
• Private healthcare for self and family
• BT Pension scheme, minimum 5% Employee contribution, BT contribution 10%
• 25 days annual leave (not including bank holidays), increasing with service
• Huge range of flexible benefits including cycle to work, healthcare, season ticket loan
• World-class training and development opportunities
• Option to join BT Shares Saving schemes.
• Discounted broadband, mobile and TV packages
• Access to 100's of retail discounts including the BT shop

About us

BT is part of BT Group, along with EE, Openreach, and Plusnet.

Millions of people rely on us every day to help them live their lives, power their businesses, and keep their public services running. We connect friends to family, clients to colleagues, people to possibilities. We keep the wheels of business spinning, and the emergency services responding.

We value diversity and celebrate difference. 'We embed diversity and inclusion into everything that we do. It's fundamental to our purpose: we connect for good.'

We all stick to the same values: Personal, Simple, and Brilliant. From day one, you'll get stuck in to tough challenges, pitch in with ideas, make things happen. But you won't be alone: we'll be there with help and support, learning and development.

This is your chance to make a real difference to the world: to be part of the digital transformation of countless lives and businesses. Grab it.

A FEW POINTS TO NOTE:

Although these roles are listed as full-time, if you're a job share partnership, work reduced hours, or any other way of working flexibly, please still get in touch.

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