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Software Engineering Manager

Job Requisition ID: 24849
Job Closing Date: 09/09/2025
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, GBR, NE991RN
| Salford, GBR, M50 2QH
JOB DETAILS
JOB BAND: E
CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-time
DEPARTMENT: BBC Product Group
LOCATION: Newcastle or Salford - Hybrid
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: Up to 110k 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
We want the BBC to be as renowned for the quality of its engineering as it is for the quality of its content. We aspire to be the best so that we can engineer outstanding digital products, at scale. Working here in an engineering role means being part of a world-class team and a chance to do the most meaningful work of your career
We are on a mission to put personalisation at the core of our experiences. We use machine learning to understand our audiences - their interests, context and tastes - and help them discover more of the BBC. We are looking for a Software Engineering Manager for our Recommendations Platform. This is a great opportunity to play a key role in the future of products used by millions. You will lead the enabling AI/ML platform, providing the data, tools and services that allow our capability teams to experiment, automate and deliver at pace.
WHY JOIN THE TEAM
You will be leading the platform capabilities within recommendations, at a time when this work could not be more vital to the BBC's strategy and future. Our teams bring together product managers, engineers, data scientists, designers and editorial experts, all driven by the same goal: enabling highly personalised experiences that support the BBC's public service mission. Personalisation is increasingly central to how we serve audiences better, helping them find trusted, relevant content that matters to them.
YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT

• Lead and inspire up to 50 staff across multiple Software Engineering teams, with direct line management of Team Leaders and Principal Engineers. Foster a culture of growth, collaboration, and high performance.
• Responsible for the delivery of AI/ML platform capabilities, providing teams with the data, tools and services they need to innovate at speed and scale.
• Accountable for ensuring the software is properly monitored, supported and maintained, including maintaining resources and skills for resolving issues throughout the lifecycle.
• Cross functional collaboration with other disciplines - product, design architecture and data science to deliver measurable, sustainable business value.
• Drive a culture of continuous improvement, experimentation, and innovation, ensuring teams adopt modern engineering practices and stay at the forefront of technology.

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:

• Experience leading multiple software engineering teams, with experience line-managing Software Engineering Team Leaders and Principal Software Engineers.
• Operational experience managing DevOps teams and ensuring high availability of products and services at scale.
• Strong experience with a range of AWS services such as SageMaker, Bedrock, S3, EC2, Lambda, IAM, VPC, ECS/EKS, DynamoDB, Kafka, CloudFormation and associated technologies like Python.
• Experience of MLOps for personalisation (e.g. recommendations or search), or building enabling platforms for engineering or data science.
• Strong experience of delivering complex technical solutions to provide successful business outcomes in agreed timescales.
• Experience of managing multiple stakeholders including Product, Design, Data Science and Architecture.
• Experience of driving continuous improvement in the software engineering craft, improving tooling, practices and processes

If you can bring some of these skills and experience, 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:
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.
Information at a Glance
This is your BBC
At the BBC you can create and innovate in an inclusive environment while contributing to some of the world's best loved content, and the BBC's mission to inform, educate and entertain.
Life at BBC
Here you will benefit from:

• Fair pay and flexible benefits including a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym.
• Excellent career and professional development.
• Support in your working life, including flexible working which you can discuss with us at any point during the application, selection or offer.
• A values-based organisation where the way we do things is important as what we do.

Benefits may vary if you are joining on an FTC basis.
Learn more about life at the BBC and our values in our candidate pack.
You belong
We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, so all our employees feel that they can belong, thrive and achieve their full potential.
We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to join us. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.
We welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.
Find out more about diversity, inclusion and belonging in our strategy below.
Disability confident
We are a disability confident employer. If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process, or to carry out this role, please contact us via email and we'd be happy to discuss:
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