Job Description

Job Requisition ID:

33430

Job Closing Date:

30/11/2025
Salford, GBR, M50 2QH

| Cardiff, GBR, CF10 1FT

| Glasgow, GBR, G511DA

| London, GBR, W1A 1AA

| Newcastle-upon-Tyne, GBR, NE991RN

JOB DETAILS

JOB BAND: D

CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-time

DEPARTMENT: Product Group

LOCATION: Cardiff, Glasgow, Newcastle, Salford, London - Hybrid

PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: 70,000 - 85,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.





We're happy to discuss flexible working. If you'd like to, please indicate your preference in the application - though there's no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

Join the BBC's 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. You'll drive innovation in search across the BBC's 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 department's 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, we'd 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.




Disclaimer


This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.


Please note: If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory.


For any general queries, please contact: bbchr@bbc.co.uk


Redeployment


The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.