Software Engineering Manager

Job Req ID: Posting Date: Function:   Location:  Salary: About the role Secure Contracts is an organization within BT designed to serve the UK Governement. 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. This role manages a team of technical engeers deploying a range of COTS products to create a range of monitoring and management capabilities to UK government with HMG data handling requirements   What you’ll be doing The Software Engineering Manager coordinates the execution of the engineering strategy and roadmap that supports BT’s commercial strategy through cross functional business partnering and the participation of a team that pursues innovation as well as engineering excellence.   Accountabilities   1. Manages and coaches teams of application engineers driving the engineering organisation’s ability to deliver high quality/stable tooling on time and on budget and implementing means of bringing measurability as well as predictability to the engineering organisation’s capabilities.   2. Oversees the execution of technical decisions, technology choices and architecture for a wide range of high-performance products, capabilities, and platforms, effectively balancing short term impact with long-term transformation.   3. Monitors, manages and ensures timely releases from teams by driving compliance with key release quality metrics.   4. Consults on complex and strategic issues using advanced technical knowledge, across wider industry and/or specific sectors, and develops bespoke or leading edge, technically complex solutions (e.g., relating to new, untested technology and/or large-scale impact of products).   5. Drives the implementation of the defined technical roadmap to meet the needs of the business, engineering team, and partner teams.   6. Implements, engineering and operational excellence initiatives, implementing metrics and processes for regular assessment and improvement.   7. Takes a managerial and influencer role in the application engineering function, implementing the technical vision and the pursuit of innovations regarding new technologies, platforms and applications.   8. Develops “best-in-class” engineering for services by ensuring that the services and the components are well-defined, secure, reliable, diagnosable, actively monitored and reusable.   9. Oversees the implementation of new architectures, standards, and methods for large-scale enterprise systems, proactively removing blockers from the team's work.   10. Researches, designs and performs deep dive data analysis, to identify issues and implement ways to improve working processes within the area of application engineering responsibility, such as avoiding and reducing technical debt.    11. Performs complex debugging and…