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JOB DETAILS
JOB BAND: D
CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent Full-time
DEPARTMENT: Product Group
LOCATION: Cardiff Glasgow Newcastle Salford London Hybrid
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: 70000 - 85000 depending on relevant skills knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Were happy to discuss flexible working. If youd like to please indicate your preference in the application though theres no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.
PURPOSE OF THE ROLE
Join the BBCs Product Group as a Senior Architect and shape the future of online experiences for millions collaborating with world-class teams to design scalable solutions that inform educate and entertain. Youll drive innovation in search across the BBCs online estate working with cutting-edge tech involving search engines machine learning all hosted on the cloud.
WHY JOIN THE TEAM
You will join a fantastic team of technical leaders that shapes BBC Online delivering platform services which power our entire content portfolio. You will work with a range of multi-disciplinary experts including amazing development teams who focus on best-practice engineering providing key services used by millions of people every day. This is your chance to make a real impact solving complex challenges and creating services for the public good.
Interview process:
- A two-stage virtual interview.
- Both stages are designed to learn about you and your experiences as well as a chance to meet the key people you will work with.
- The second stage will involve a short presentation to demonstrate your skills as a technology leader and communicator.
YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT
- To build effective relationships and work with engineering teams product owners and any 3rd party suppliers ensuring delivery of our business outcomes aligned with the departments technical principles and strategy.
- To assist the engineering teams with the definition of project scope and technical approach during project inception and to assist in the definition of implementation
- To be responsible for documenting and communicating the evolution of our systems.
- To keep abreast of technical developments of strategic importance to Search and to participate with the wider architecture team in developing and setting broader architectural strategy
- To assist with the growth of the teams you work with through coaching and mentoring those staff.
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:
- Experience as a senior engineer or technical architect working with fast-moving agile product & engineering teams.
- Experience of delivering secure performant cloud based services with high availability
- An excellent and proactive collaborator working across teams empowering and supporting others with the ability to inspire & persuade.
- A strong communicator able to work with people of all levels and disciplines helping to explain complicated technology solutions and their business benefits and implications.
- Experience or a willingness to learn about machine learning and search technologies.
DESIRED BUT NOT REQUIRED:
- Experience working with a range of AWS services
- Experience working with large content data sets
If you can bring some of these skills and experiences along with transferable strengths wed love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.
Before your start date you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges in line with our Contracts of Employment policy. This allows us to discuss any support you may need and assess any risks. Failure to disclose may result in the withdrawal of your offer.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- Apache Hive
- S3
- Redshift
- Spark
- AWS
- Solr
- NoSQL
- Data Warehouse
- Internet Of Things
- Kafka
- DynamoDB
- ZooKeeper
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