Software Engineering Manager

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our engineering teams within Commercial Data Products., The Software Engineering Manager is a pivotal role, responsible for the leadership, technical vision and output of the Commercial Data Products (CDP) engineering teams. Closely collaborating with the department director and senior leaders, as well as directly line managing the team leads and principal engineers, this position is essential in delivering the technology that powers the data platforms and data products that underpin BBC Studios. The role encompasses the entire spectrum of software and data product development lifecycles to seamlessly blend technical goals with business objectives. Central to this position is the drive to foster a culture of engineering excellence powering the growth and success of BBC Studios. The CDP engineering teams are responsible for building and maintaining the cloud infrastructure of the data platform (integrating SaaS products and building new platform features), as well as leading the data engineering function.

• Leadership and Management - Recruit, mentor, coach and manage engineering staff, ensuring the quality of their work and professional development. Providing technical leadership and direction to colleagues.
• Technical Strategy - Provide technical direction and oversight, setting a clear technical vision and strategy that contributes to the overall goals of the Commercial Data Products team.
• Operational Excellence - Drive operational excellence, streamlining processes and systems and aligning with architectural strategy to enhance efficiency, meet deadlines, and successfully implement initiatives. Providing guidance and making strategic choices on complex projects and product initiatives, aligning with our strategy to be sustainable, scalable & innovative.
• Collaboration - Work closely with multidiscipline leads and teams and more widely across the business to ensure the timely delivery of high-quality solutions, ensuring alignment with wider vision and objectives and to play a part in placing Studios as thought leaders in the data platform industry.
• Culture - Cultivate a positive, dynamic, and productive work environment, promoting a culture of continuous improvement and high performance.
  
  A strong track record of recruiting and leading strong teams and developing 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.
• Proven experience in collaborating with other disciplines to deliver quality outputs together.
• Working collaboratively with your reports, peers and stakeholders to deliver successful technical solutions to ambitious timescales.
• Operational experience running data platforms or equivalent, and delivering high-performing, reliable and scalable products and services.
• Experience of database design, performance optimisation and awareness of cloud-based Big Data "data warehouse" systems such as Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery or Athena.
• Experience in or exposure to Infrastructure-as-Code including Cloudformation and Terraform, plus modern typed languages such as Typescript, C#, Java, etc, and SQL.
• Understanding of the principles of data mesh and benefits of democracy of data.
• Strong understanding of data governance, privacy and compliance.
• Technical design and service architecture experience, specialising in addressing the challenges of working with data at scale and in building highly scalable data pipeline.
• Continuously driving engineering improvements - tools, practices and processes.
  
  BBC Studios is a world-renowned content studio and channels & streaming business, powered by British creativity, with a reach that touches audiences in every corner of the globe.
We work with outstanding creative talent who are responsible for platform-defining shows from Strictly Come Dancing to Bluey, Prehistoric Planet to Planet Earth III. We're the home of bbc.com, the widest-read English language news website in the world; and the UK's largest distributor of British content. We invest in and produce amazing content, and millions of users across the world interact with our products every week. We have a proven track record of growth and are ambitious for the future. As we grow, we are actively transforming our culture and our ways of working, continuing to invest in our colleagues to build a bold, agile, inventive and inclusive business. At the forefront of this transformation is investment in our data capabilities for BBC Studios, which will unlock the capability to build better data-driven experiences for our customers and audiences as well as helping to grow and optimise commercial revenue. Investment in data is crucial to our ambitions of making BBC Studios an area of growth for the BBC.

WHAT WILL YOU GAIN FROM WORKING AT BBC STUDIOS?
• Flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance.
• 26 days holiday (plus an additional day 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.
• Excellent career progression - access to courses, webinars, workshops and the opportunity to work in different areas of the organisation.
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION Job Reference: 18640 Band: E Salary: £89,800 - £110,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights. Contract type: Permanent role. Location: Office Base is Television Centre, London W12 (This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working). About the BBC The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC for different reasons and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk. 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.