Why this job matters
As the Senior Manager, Subsea Platform, you'll be responsible for leading the Subsea team, overseeing its day-to-day activities and shaping the strategic direction of BT's Subsea business to deliver a roadmap that supports BT's ambition to be the world's most trusted connector of people, devices and machines.
You'll also be responsible for setting the technical direction of the team, leading on technology choices and architecture that supports our optical platform, as well as dedicated solutions to customers.
SC Clearance eligibility is advantageous
This role can be based in London or Bristol & requires monthly visits to south wests & international travel 1 a quarter
What you'll be doing
- Leads engineering teams critical to the organisation's performance through the delivery of high-quality solutions within time and budget standards/requirements
- Mentors, coaches, and manages several teams to develop current and future team capabilities and ensure performance in delivering the most impactful features to both internal and external users of the BT team
- Leads the team in adopting relevant new technologies, tools, methods and processes that progressively advances service capabilities to its different stakeholders
- Ensures timely delivery from teams by overseeing compliance with key metrics
- Operates as an SME within own field of expertise, driving technical decisions, technology choices and contributes to group level discussion around architecture for a wide range of high performance products, capabilities, and platforms, effectively balancing short-term impact with long-term transformation
- Oversees the team in developing an ambitious and compelling technical roadmap to meet the needs of the business, engineering organisation and defined technology strategy
- Oversees engineering and operational excellence initiatives, implementing metrics and processes for regular assessment and improvement through the implementation of processes and tools supporting multiple platforms
- Ensures team standards of engineering and operational excellence are upheld, establishing metrics and processes for regular assessment and improvement through the creation and implementation of processes and tools supporting multiple platforms
- Drives an engineering culture that supports innovation and creativity while delivering high quality products with predictability and reliability
- Builds 'best-in-class' engineering for services by ensuring that the services and the components are well-defined and modularised, secure, reliable, diagnosable, actively monitored and reusable
- Leads the evaluation and implementation of high-quality tools and automation processes to support continuous delivery where appropriate
- Ensures the development and adoption of a DevOps mindset across the engineering teams
- Leads the implementation of continuous improvement opportunities to improve the software engineering team processes
Skills Required for the Role
- Agile Delivery
- Culture Building
- Change Management
- Network Architecture
- Business Analysis
- Technology Strategy
- Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning
- Technology Governance
- Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment Automation & Orchestration
- Business Process Improvement
- Talent Management
- Decision Making
- Growth Mindset
- Performance Management
- Inclusive Leadership
Experience Required for the Role
Mandatory Experience
- Proven experience of managing a distributed team of subsea engineering professionals
- Proven experience agile delivery and implementing best practice engineering standards
- Proven experience of designing and delivery of subsea cable systems
- Experience of working with technical and non technical internal stakeholders to understand requirements and implications of new technologies.
- Collaborating with internal teams and external suppliers to understand, evaluate and validate new technologies / patterns.
- Develop and maintain comprehensive stakeholder engagement strategies to build and maintain positive relationships with government agencies and regulatory bodies.
Preferred Experience
- Membership of professional body/ standards organisations
Benefits
- On target 15% on target bonus
- Health Care
- Car Allowance
- BT Pension scheme, minimum 5% Employee contribution, BT contribution 10%
- From January 2025, equal family leave: receive 18 weeks at full pay, 8 weeks at half pay and 26 weeks at the statutory rate. It's for all parents, no matter how your family is made up.
- Enhanced women's health support: including help with menopause symptoms, cancer screenings, period care and more.
- 25 days annual leave (not including bank holidays), increasing with service
- 24/7 private virtual GP appointments for UK colleagues
- 2 weeks carer's leave
- World-class training and development opportunities
- Option to join BT Shares Saving schemes.
About us
BT Group was the world's first telco and our heritage in the sector is unrivalled. As home to several of the UK's most recognised and cherished brands - BT, EE, Openreach and Plusnet, we have always played a critical role in creating the future, and we have reached an inflection point in the transformation of our business.
Over the next two years, we will complete the UK's largest and most successful digital infrastructure project - connecting more than 25 million premises to full fibre broadband. Together with our heavy investment in 5G, we play a central role in revolutionising how people connect with each other.
While we are through the most capital-intensive phase of our fibre investment, meaning we can reward our shareholders for their commitment and patience, we are absolutely focused on how we organise ourselves in the best way to serve our customers in the years to come. This includes radical simplification of systems, structures, and processes on a huge scale. Together with our application of AI and technology, we are on a path to creating the UK's best telco, reimagining the customer experience and relationship with one of this country's biggest infrastructure companies.
Change on the scale we will all experience in the coming years is unprecedented. BT Group is committed to being the driving force behind improving connectivity for millions and there has never been a more exciting time to join a company and leadership team with the skills, experience, creativity, and passion to take this company into a new era.
A FEW POINTS TO NOTE:
Although these roles are listed as full-time, if you're a job share partnership, work reduced hours, or any other way of working flexibly, please still get in touch.
We will also offer reasonable adjustments for the selection process if required, so please do not hesitate to inform us.
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