The BBC offers an inclusive workplace where the principles of fairness, respect, equality, dignity and autonomy are promoted and are part of our everyday goals and behaviour. We select candidates for our positions on the basis of merit and as an equal opportunity employer we value diversity and all of the benefits it brings.

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. Working here in an engineering role means being part of a world-class team and a chance to do the most meaningful work of your career.

The BBC’s digital products play a key role in our mission to inform, educate and entertain our audience. We are looking for a Software Engineering Manager to join us in building a new team in our newly refitted technology hub in Newcastle. This is a great opportunity to play a key role in building teams from the ground up and shaping the future of products used by millions of people around the world every day.

Role Responsibility

As a Software Engineering Manager, you will have responsibility for up to 50 staff comprising Software Engineering Team Leads, Software Engineers and Testers. You will play a key part in recruiting and building new teams at our Newcastle office. You will collaboratively guide change and improvement across your area whilst working closely with peers in Engineering and Architecture, and with other disciplines such as Product Management.

You will play a key part to help us build flexible, distinctive, resilient, consistent and intuitive tools for content creators across the BBC. You will help us transform the BBC by helping us to transition to a suite of modern production tools and editorial workflows that support new content formats, and power experimentation and personalisation. You will help us create a brand new energised and collaborative team in the heart of the North East.

The Ideal Candidate

Do you have some or all of the following?

• Experience leading multiple software engineering teams, ideally with experience of different platforms (e.g. Mobile, Web)
• A track record of growing engineers and engineering leaders.
• Experience creating and nurturing a diverse, welcoming and inclusive team.
• Experience fostering a positive, energising environment where everyone feels like they belong, can be their authentic selves, and can bring the best version of themselves to work, every day.
• Operational experience managing DevOps teams and ensuring high availability of products and services.
• Technical design and service architecture experience, particularly with large scale, high volume customer facing applications.
• Driving continuous improvement in the software engineering craft, improving tooling, practices and processes.
• Managing multiple stakeholders in a complex matrix environment.
• Working collaboratively with your reports, peers and stakeholders to deliver work to ambitious time scales.

If you want to help us make the BBC the best place for people to work, build amazing products at scale that always work for our audience, then this is the perfect opportunity for you. You will be surrounded by like-minded professionals that believe in this mission and in the BBC.

Package Description

Band: E
Contract type: Permanent
Location: Newcastle-upon-Tyne

We’re happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application. There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

• Excellent career progression â€“ the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.
• Unrivalled training and development opportunities â€“ our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.
• Benefits- We offer a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 26 days (1 of which is a corporation day) with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more.

About the Company

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 in the document attached below.

Diversity 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, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.

To find out more about Diversity and Inclusion at the BBC, please click here