Director Product Engineering Platform 22280
Director Product Engineering Platform 22280
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Job Introduction
The Director Product Engineering (Platform) has responsibility for and leads multidisciplinary software engineering teams that develop the key backend services that provide common technical capabilities to create manage and discover the BBCs content.
This role will lead a large highperforming software engineering team that establishes common service implementation services that can be built to be released consumed observed and scaled. Leading across Product Group and broader to ensure faster time to value is driven for audiences from its digital products.
We are flexible on the location of this role as it is hybrid and could be contracted out of any of our major UK locations (Newcastle/ Manchester/ London or Glasgow would be preferable)
Main Responsibilities
Responsible for leading the engineering teams developing the common capabilities to manage and discover the BBCs content and the core components required to evolve audiences experiences in a scalable and sustainable way.
- Works closely with counterparts for Enablement Experience Data and Architecture in support of the Director Engineering & Data to deliver a high performing engineering organisation
- In partnership with Director of Product Management Platform develop a multiyear technical vision and strategy for platform evolution ensuring alignment with audience needs and technological advancement
- Ensures development approach is aligned with the overall BBC engineering and architecture strategy and adheres to standards and principles that ensures engineering excellence
- Ensures teams adhere to software engineering best practice
- Deliver the functions strategy as efficiently as possible; driving maximum value through reducing costs increasing income ensuring appropriate investment to maximise return to the audience/customer
- Partner with executive leadership and functional leaders to identify opportunities for platform driven innovation that enhances overall business performance
- Foster strong relationships with key leaders across product group technology group and wider business stakeholders to ensure cohesive strategy and alignment of platform capabilities with business needs
- Spearhead the evaluation and adoption of emerging technologies tools and methodologies that can enhance platform capabilities and operational efficiency
- Ensure operational excellence in the products and services delivered and achieve our availability goals. Establish KPIS and scalability targets for the platform ensuring it can effectively support growth and match evolving audience demands
- Drive improvements in the BBCs continuous delivery/integration practices
- Continuously benchmark against external comparators and identify ways to improve effectiveness and efficiency including identifying aggregating functions for potential external or partnership delivery
- Manage resources (financial technological and people) optimally to deliver the strategic goals of Product Group yearonyear
- Contributes to the healthy promotion of engineering culture in software engineering investing in our people and the developer experience
- Provide inspirational leadership support career development and talent retention
- Along with all leaders is accountable for their areas performance against corporate diversity inclusion and location targets.
Are You The Right Candidate
Essential Requirements:
- Extensive demonstrable experience building complex consumer facing digital products and internal facing products across web and mobile applications in demanding publishing environments
- Experience working in a media publishing and content production environment would be beneficial
- Experience in a senior leadership position responsible for building motivating and leading high performing development teams
- Passionate about software engineering best practice include agile TDD continuous delivery micro services measurement and software metrics and experienced in selecting suitable practices for the team and situation
- As an expert in their field they will provide professional leadership and act as role model to their teams and colleagues
- Adept at managing numerous diverse senior and executive level stakeholders often operating under tight timescales and managing numerous competing priorities
- A convincing and persuasive communicator required to modify beliefs and opinions of teams as well as senior stakeholders able to establish effective and collaborative relations across BBC departments and external agencies/stakeholders where required
- Act as the conduit to effective communication and influence across the management team
- A deep functional/technical expert with broad and comprehensive understanding of theories systems and practices relevant to their functional area
- Broad and comprehensive understanding of all BBC regulatory and contractual obligations as they pertain to their functional area
- Excellent commercial and financial acumen including experience of leading highvalue regulated procurements
Job Package
Band: SL (Senior Leader)
Contract Type: Permanent
Location: Flexible/ Hybrid (within commuting distance to one of our hubs)
About the BBC
Were 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 inhouse Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.
- Benefits we offer a competitive salary package a flexible 35hour working week for worklife 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 dont 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 youve read about our values and behaviours in the below document: matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individuals 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 thats to contribute to our programming or our wide range of nonproduction 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 socioeconomic 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 visit Experience:
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