Now is a great time to join the BBC News & Weather digital teams. Over the last four years, we have doubled the reach of the News site and apps in both the UK and globally. On an average week, 60% of visitors to BBC online come to News & Weather in the UK, rising to 75% internationally; when big stories hit, we regularly now exceed 100m weekly users. While we’re a big product, we’re still one-size-fits-all, and over the next two years we must make the leap to a modern, personalised digital service that works for all. We’re doubling the size of the product and engineering teams by hiring over 100 new roles to support our aspiration of creating a truly universal personal news service.

The News Platform Health team is a small multidisciplinary team that provides our other DevOps teams with tools and services to help them better serve the audience.

Our mission is to both help teams build new products and services, and also to ensure that the BBC News websites and APIs are robust, reliable and secure, allowing them to serve millions of people every single day.

The teams work is highly varied, ranging from working on our CI pipelines, to shared logging solutions, platform observability, and developing our common application infrastructure (AWS). You will of course be working closely with your team, but also with our other engineering teams to identify common problems, build new tooling, and share best practice.

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.

Who will support me?

The BBC is widely known as an organisation that values its staff, a healthy work-life balance and a positive, growth-oriented workplace. BBC News has an excellent reputation as a great place to grow, learn and develop new skills.

We have fantastic people managers that are committed to helping their colleagues advance their careers. As a wider organisation we work to provide you with the opportunities and experiences you need to succeed.

You can spend 10% time of your time learning new skills, playing with new technology and developing yourself, because we understand the need to stay up to date and fresh in a constantly changing technical landscape.

How will I be successful?

• Be a part of improving our great culture by demonstrating the right behaviours and attitudes.
• Be proactive and take opportunities to increase your knowledge and experience.
• Be a great team player and help us achieve great things together.

What is the role?

As a Team Lead, you will help architect, design, develop, deploy and operate websites that are used by millions of users. You‘ll be contributing in a team, while guiding technical projects as part of a cross-functional Agile team(s). We are looking for someone who can guide development and delivery, help build sound software and foster best practices, while mentoring others.

What are the responsibilities?

People:

• Line management of a team of engineers with varying skillsets and experience.
• Fostering an environment of engineering excellence and continuous improvement.
• Coaching, mentoring and assisting your team by furthering their professional development and creating career progression opportunities.

Delivery:

• Working together with other senior technical people to ensure a holistic, consistent technical strategy and roadmap.
• Engaging with non-technical stakeholders from around the BBC to help plan, size and scope work.
• Working closely with Delivery Managers to facilitate collaboration between teams.

Technical:

• Ensuring technical quality meets the needs for a fast, reliable, always-on service.
• Identifying opportunities to improve engineering practices across BBC News.
• Identifying potential areas of risk and take mitigating action.

Are you the right candidate?

As an organisation we support all of our colleagues in gaining new skills and experience. To be successful in this role you may have experience of some, but not necessarily all, of the following:

• Guiding people in software teams or projects.
• Coaching, mentoring and assisting colleagues.
• Taking a collaborative and inclusive approach to solving problems.
• Stakeholder and people management.
• Backend technologies including Node, Java and/or AWS architecture.
• Engineering principles, OO and design patterns.
• Delivering high capacity, high traffic or high availability websites.
• Agile software development methodologies, techniques and processes.

About the BBC

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

Package Description

Band: D
Contract type: Permanent
Location: Cardiff

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 defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more.