Job Introduction

The BBC’s Product Engineering function is looking to appoint a Head of Engineering for Mobile to play a key role in the engineering of the BBC’s audience-facing digital products and a best-in-class engineering culture. 

Main Responsibilities

As Head of Software Engineering you will have responsibility for a large team of software engineers, data engineers and test engineers across multiple locations, leading change and improvement across the board and working closely with peers in Engineering & Architecture to shape the technical vision for your space and our overall digital estate.

Your key day-to-day responsibilities will include: 

Working as a key member of a cross functional leadership team for Mobile to define a technical strategy for the development of our native mobile and tablet apps, aligned with our product goals and architectural direction Leading large software engineering teams in the design and development of high-volume, high-performance, high-availability, media publishing workflow systems and consumer facing products using modern frameworks and technologies You will be responsible for the culture, behaviours and engagement of the teams you lead, being a visible and accessible leader to a large and diverse team Aligning the development approach with the overall BBC Engineering strategy and adhering to standards and principles to ensure engineering excellence Drive improvements in our continuous delivery/integration practices, as well as continue to develop our cloud practices Ensuring our products are operationally excellent and always available to the audience Ensuring our tech evolves and the teams are enabled to deliver effectively and efficiently Ensuring software engineering best practice is adhered across teams Effective people leadership including performance management, resource planning, recruitment and talent development, helping to create a diverse, inclusive, and welcoming environment, where everybody feels supported to be their authentic self Cross discipline engagement, leading by example on a collaborative approach to problem solving, working side by side with peers in Product, Data, Delivery & UXD A proactive and constructive member of the Engineering leadership team and leadership community across Product Group, collaborating independently and progressing people, culture and engineering initiatives across the Group Works across a wider set of engineering capabilities Managing offshore and vendor suppliers and deliverables where applicable Supports the Director, Product Engineering – Experiences by delivering technical initiatives within the Engineering group, reporting on those initiatives as needed

Are You The Right Candidate?

The ideal candidate will evidence the following skills and experience: 

Demonstrable experience leading an engineering team at scale across multiple locations Experience in the engineering of quality mobile applications for high-traffic audience-facing products Experience of operational ownership and clear understanding of what operational excellence entails of digital offerings in production A digital leader with gravitas to work effectively with senior colleagues as well as being able to inspire, motivate and drive change through a large engineering team Ability to present to and influence C-Level colleagues Behavioural role model for the BBC’s values A team player who can coach, develop and mentor the engineering community, and also provide leadership amongst your peers Experience of agile software delivery at scale with strong view of what good looks like with respect to continuous delivery, enabling speed without compromise to quality Knowledge of cloud computing and micro-service architectures with experience of multiple application domains ideally including web, mobile and/or TV

Package Description

Band: F
Contract type: 1 x continuing (permanent) role
Location: Flexible/Hybrid
Career Path Framework job pay range: up to £148,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

About the BBC

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 – the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation. Unrivalled training and development opportunities – 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 pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more.

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 below document: 

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.