Job Description

The role is accountable for ensuring that our technical deliveries realise Business Value. The role is accountable for multiple complex small to medium sized design deliveries or a single large technical design delivery. The roleholder will coach and mentor a multi-discipline team. The role ensures that the scope of delivery is understood, that the technical solution meets the business need and that plans are comprehensive and are achieved.

The working domain for the role holder is in the IT & Cloud Monitoring space; including designing solutions for the Network Cloud programme; where technical design and delivery of solutions on Monitoring and Assurance toolsets needs to be managed realising Business Value and Outcomes.

The role holder will be responsible for delivering new efficient solutions like closed loop auto-remediation capabilities on DC and Cloud infrastructure hosted on Openstack or similar VIM, with leaf & spine network and a WAN underlay; consuming events and rich telemetry from applications, SDN and infrastructure alike.

What I’ll be doing – your accountabilities

Role implements the defined architectural roadmap for the Assurance Area for the following:
o Fault Management
o Resource Management
o Incident Management
o Change Management
Role involves defining and implementing the roadmap for Transformation of IT, DataCenter and Network Cloud applications in Service and Problem management.
Experience designing & development in Core Java/J2EE/Spring/Angular and from an Engineering point of view (Preferrable microservice based architecture and cloud ready applications).
Manage, Engineer, Architect, Develop and Maintain applications in Network Management, OSS and FCAPS space.
Skilled in life cycle management of OSS tools/solutions including requirements analysis, platform selection, technical architecture design, application design & development, testing and deployment.
Knowledge in various industry standard’s such as TMF, Open API.
Lead and execute engineering initiatives to ensure the network cloud platform is easily consumable by products and solutions that are built on top of the platform; and at the sametime, is compliant with information security standards.
Implement governance and controls to monitor and manage consumption and compliance with security and other standards.
Implement and publish APIs for clients to consume platform services in a consistent way.
Work with product owners to prioritize features for ongoing sprints and implement features based on service line demand, industry trends, known defects, and issues.
Drive initiatives to identify right set of cloud technologies to be used for specific type of solutions and drive the effort to templatize and automate those technologies to be used at scale in all products and applications across OSS.
Design and implement tools to monitor, and administer Cloud ready applications and the underlying services for multiple clouds (private and public)
Design and implement DevSecOps processes and CI/CD pipelines Work with solution design peers in the other spaces Network Edge, IT OSS and other operational teams and define implementation roadmap and scope sprints to deliver fasterbusiness outcomes working across the teams.
Build internal, external and third-party supplier relationships to ensure full commitment and support in execution of the design.
Set and manage right expectations at different levels including clients and internal stakeholders with a vision towards long term relationships
Knowledge to deliver in Agile Methodologies and SRE.
Drive strong engineering practices in the team
Ability to debug complex issues and provide the right solution

Skills required for the job

Technical Expertise: Be a subject expert and drive shared learning and collaboration. Be a leader in the industry and recognised externally as a thought leader and for making outstanding contributions to the industry, perhaps via a professional body.
Mandatory Skill set :- Java (Open JDK11) , J2EE, REST & SOAP WebServices, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Spring Data, SQL/NoSQL Database, Kafka, WebLogic, FlyWay, Swagger and K8’s
Stakeholder Management: Establishes a network of stakeholders, serving as an externally recognised expert in their field and influencing industry forums, external boards and/or conferences through technical expertise. Liaises with CFU and customer stakeholders, ensuring business needs are met through assurance of the design.
Strategic / Enterprise Perspective: Able to create and articulate a compelling holistic strategic vision and roadmap to both colleagues and external contractors. This may require an ability to articulate complex information to colleagues working outside the technical space.
Change Management: Able to create and sustain successful large scale and complex business change. An expert in change management.
Process design & documentation: The ability to describe, map and document down to the procedural detail complete processes on a structured way. The ability to organise and structure the process flow in synchronisation with the exchanges with other processes

Experience you would be expected to have

Made decisions in ambiguous situations using incomplete information or differing opinions (eg divided team loyalties or unclear deliverables).
Aligned project plans and objectives with BT strategy and values
Actively participated in strategy setting sessions
To suit the needs of a customer, colleague or client; moved outside of expected process or practice

About us

BT Group was the world’s first telco and our heritage in the sector is unrivalled. As home to several of the UK’s most recognised and cherished brands – BT, EE, Openreach and Plusnet, we have always played a critical role in creating the future, and we have reached an inflection point in the transformation of our business.

Over the next two years, we will complete the UK’s largest and most successful digital infrastructure project – connecting more than 25 million premises to full fibre broadband. Together with our heavy investment in 5G, we play a central role in revolutionising how people connect with each other.

While we are through the most capital-intensive phase of our fibre investment, meaning we can reward our shareholders for their commitment and patience, we are absolutely focused on how we organise ourselves in the best way to serve our customers in the years to come. This includes radical simplification of systems, structures, and processes on a huge scale. Together with our application of AI and technology, we are on a path to creating the UK’s best telco, reimagining the customer experience and relationship with one of this country’s biggest infrastructure companies.

Change on the scale we will all experience in the coming years is unprecedented. BT Group is committed to being the driving force behind improving connectivity for millions and there has never been a more exciting time to join a company and leadership team with the skills, experience, creativity, and passion to take this company into a new era.

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.

We will also offer reasonable adjustments for the selection process if required, so please do not hesitate to inform us.

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Cloud Software Engineering Specialist