Software Engineering Specialist

Job Details

Job title

Software Engineering Specialist

Reports to (job)

Specialist Software Engineer

Team

Network Services – Fixed Networks

Energy, Power and Cooling Team

Location

Glasgow, UK

Job Dimensions

Energy, Power & Cooling IT Centre of Excellence

Hours

Full Time

No. Direct Reports

0

Career Level

D

Why BT Group?

We’ve always been an organisation with purpose; we connect for good.   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 - the values we live by. 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 innovative technology infrastructure. 

Today, in this fast changing, always on, digital world, our purpose remains true.  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.

Why this job matters

You will be an influential member of a co-located, multi-disciplinary team responsible for the descign, development, test and support of monitoring and management systems that underpin BT’s Energy, Power & Cooling domain.

As a lead software engineer based in BT's main office in Glasgow, you will have a hands-on role in designing, developing and integrating the software applications and automation that drive BT’s energy efficiency, underpinning our environmental commitments while enabling the transformation of BT’s network to all IP digital and supporting the resilience and reliability of this vital piece of the UK critical national infrastructure.

What you’ll be doing – your accountabilities

Positioned within our co-located Energy, Power & Cooling IT Centre of Excellence in Glasgow, your specific responsibilities will include:-

• Designing and developing microservice-architectured applications  using Java/Spring Boot/RDBMS, employing agile methodologies (SCRUM, prototyping preferred)
• Responsible for leading software engineering projects within the team, directing a team of a few software engineers/associate software engineers as required, taking up an Agile/Scrum lead role qhere required
• Responsible for subject matter expertise within specific projects, customer interaction related to the subject and controlling changes within this area of expertise
• Leverage software development skills to find innovative approaches to problems.
• Mentoring of software engineers/associate software engineers
• Object oriented analysis and design using common design patterns.
• Experience with test-driven development
• Represent the software team at requirements and design workshops at BT and supplier sites.
• Experience in evaluating and selecting from competing technology options (languages, frameworks, libraries) for component level solutions.
• Experience in understanding and applying knowledge from 3rd party technical/regulatory documentation.
• Role requires integrating software with plant hardware in our Glasgow test lab during the design and development process.
• Experience in managing IT infrastructure from design and commissioning to on-going support and maintenance
• DBA experience / appreciation of common performance issues and how to address them.

The skills you’ll need to succeed

The following skills at Advanced/Expert proficiency are required:

·        Ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders (customers, other development/ design/support teams, suppliers, development partners)

·        5+ years Core Java development

·        Design and implemention of microservice architectures using Spring framework and ReST APIs

·        5+ years RDBMS development skills, ideally in Oracle and/or PostgresSQL

·        Test automation and test-driven development

·        Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment Automation & Orchestration

·        Non-functional design and development including designing monitoring solutions

·        Knowledge of IT Security best practice and techniques

·        Understanding of Dev-Ops technologies and how they can be applied to improve an application / project / team.

·        Experience in data analysis and reporting

·        BSc Hons Computing Science or similar degree level qualification.

ip accountabilities

Experience you would be expected to have

REQUIRED

·        Software development experience, including 5+in Java.

·        Experience with managing small teams of developers in an agile manner

·        Experience in working with stakeholders (other designers, suppliers, development teams, ops and customers etc.) to resolve technical issues.

·        Experience of Microservices Architectures using Spring Boot and ReST APIs

·        Experience of working with relational databases and SQL (especially PostgresSQl and/or Oracle)

·        Experience in Linux operating system

·        Experience in using requirements-management tools and processes (e.g. Jira)

·        Experience in software test automation and manual testing using standard test tools (Junit, Jira etc.)

·        Experience in designing and developing code for systems with strong non-functional constraints (performance, reliability, availability)

·        Experience in version control

·        Experience in creating design documentation written in the Unified Modelling Language (UML)

·        Experience performing Show & Tell/Presentations to customers, developers, designers

·        Experience of building and using CI/CD pipelines

·        Experience in data analysis and reporting

DESIRABLE

·        Experience using Maven, Gitlab, Jenkins, Nexus

·        Linux Shell scripting experience