Design manager

Job Description

Design Manager Bigdata Our purpose is to use the power of communications to make a better world. For each other, for our customers, for society and our communities. We need you to help us do this. Why this role matters The purpose of this role is to provide technology expertise to drive the delivery of outcomes as well as coach and lead of a team of Software Engineers. Leads a team composed of technical practitioners to plan and design converged technology solutions, providing technical expertise to support. The role is focused on best practices, technology, and delivering business value through high quality software. Delivers software solutions that provide business value and meet customer requirements, including necessary designs, documentation, automated testing, deployment and in-life support. Reviews team outputs to confirm adherence to quality standards and alignment to customer requirements, providing validation and sign-off on designs. Leads by example demonstrating hands on capability within Big Data. What youll be doing

• Oversees and guides the design of infrastructure, software or networks, ensuring a continuous team focus on quality and customer needs.
• Identifies and implements continuous improvement opportunities to enhance team s ways of working, operations and processes.
• Resolves technical issues raised by the team and/or customer and manages escalations as required.
• Delivering software solutions that provide business value and meet customer requirements, including necessary designs, documentation, automated testing, deployment and in-life support.
• Developing the lifecycle approach selection and limited tailoring, i.e. within a broader programme, or unit approach and practices. Delivering the appropriate level of production and in-life release support to ensure production issues are resolved in a timely and effective manner.
• Driving reuse of technology to ensure efficiency and improve velocity.
• Managing resource allocation, work prioritisation and budgets. Driving business performance, efficiency and continuous improvement within the team. Accountable for meeting the TLR / TLC plan.
• Delivering organisational health outcomes across the team, including coaching and team development.
• Providing a technical direction and impacts of technical and commercial decisions on wider software lifecycle.
• Understanding, selecting and applying waterfall, Agile and DevOps software engineering methodologies as appropriate, and coaching team to adopt these

Well also need to see these on your CV

• Story-telling with data: strong skills in building the case for change, drawing on data and analytical techniques where appropriate, and communicating this to business audiences
• Stakeholder Management : Develop close relationships with customers, vendors, suppliers and BT employees at a senior level, confidently present information and facilitate negotiates. Managing key stakeholders to enable successful software design and delivery.
• Problem Solving: Ability to p roblem solve for issues that are broader than the delivered software, e.g. Integration, interconnection and e2e issues in complex integrated stacks. Resolving production issues to fix service P1-4 issues. Problems relating to introducing new technology, and resolving major issues in the platform and/or service.
• Change Management: Adapt and change team processes and technical practices in a dynamic and challenging environment in order to improve quality and business value.
• Software Development Concepts: Understands and experienced with the use of a wide range of programming concepts and is also aware of and has applied a range of algorithms.
• Business acumen: Knowledgeable in business strategy and the drivers of organisational performance, including people drivers of performance and financial literacy (e.g. business KPIs, business cases)
• Commercial & Risk Awareness: Able to understand & evaluate both obvious and subtle commercial risks, especially in relation to a programme. Able to determine the appropriate commercial solutions and responses in highly political and complex situations and ensure that appropriate action is taken.

Team Leader: Demonstrate skills as a team leader and people manager Why choose us We ve always been an organisation with purpose; to use the power of communications to make a better world. You can trace this back to our beginning as pioneers of the world s first telecommunications company. At our heart we re a technology company with research and innovation in our bones and a desire to be personal, simple, and brilliant for our customers - those are the values we live by whilst also creating an inclusive working environment where people from all backgrounds can succeed.Our pursuit of progress over the past 180 years has established BT as a strong, successful brand, with huge scale capable of achieving great things. From supporting emergency services, hospitals, banks and keeping economies around the world online, safe and secure, to delivering large scale technology infrastructure like the creation of BT Sport. Today in this fast changing, always on, digital world our purpose remains true. Yet the market conditions, regulation and competition we face are tougher than ever before. So if you have the drive, optimism and resilience to help propel us forward we ll offer unrivalled personal development, a wealth of opportunities to learn, experience new things and pursue new careers. If that s you and what you re looking for, we d love you to be part of our future.,

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