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Software Engineering Team Lead - EXTEND

Job Requisition ID: 26505
Job Closing Date: 15/10/2025
Salford, GBR, M50 2QH
JOB DETAILS
JOB BAND: E
CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-time
DEPARTMENT: BBC Product Group - TV and Devices
LOCATION: Salford - Dock House
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: 72,000 - 82,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
BBC EXTEND
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PURPOSE OF THE ROLE
IPTV is an the centre of the BBC's strategic ambitions, the iPlayer audience on this platform hits over 13 million user a week. While this is impressive, it pails in comparison to the potential IPTV audience, many more users still turn to broadcast TV to consume their BBC content and a key challenge is enticing them over to our IP products.
The TV Enablement team is in need of a talented Software Engineering Team Lead to come in and forge a path in this developing area. The team look after critical infrastructure and tooling that provide the beating heart for all TV development, ensuring teams can quickly and safely deploy their features to production. We are just at the start of their journey though, there are many opportunities to explore and different directions we could take, for example: blue/green deployments, automatic rollbacks, device specific monitoring, expanded operational controls.
WHY JOIN THE TEAM
We offer a warm welcome with full support settling in and foster a culture where everyone has an opportunity to succeed. We're deeply proud of our values, which are intrinsic to the way we behave every day. We take them seriously because we want our culture to thrive. We want people to really enjoy working with us and get a buzz from knowing that what they are doing is making a difference and enhancing people's lives.
You would be in the leadership team forming the strategy and driving it for the whole platform, it is a big responsibility and we set a high bar. Our mission is to provide world-class TV experiences leaning into the BBCs unique strengths, competing with the biggest players. TV is an especially challenging platform given its fragmented nature but we pull together as a strong TV community and drive forwards through collaboration and supporting each other.
YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT:
The role of a Software Engineering Team Lead is a hybrid role; mixing expert technical knowledge with leading your team and managing your engineers day to day and their careers.
The focus of the role includes:

• People: Recruit, mentor, coach and manage staff, assuring the quality of their work and professional development.
• Environment: Create the environment in which people can be their best. This will involve working with department leaders to create a positive and diverse working culture and working with peers to create continuity and alignment across the teams.
• Technical Expertise: Work across the technical community to improve our software, share knowledge and improve processes / practices when developing software.

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Track record of growing engineers with a focus on mentoring, coaching and development
• Experience of designing, writing and supporting robust, large-scale applications in a fast-changing environment with rapid release cycles
• Ability to communicate complex technology solutions in a clear and coherent way to different audiences
• Skilled in dealing with multiple product and technical priorities with a focus on practical decision making
• In-depth AWS knowledge. Particularly in building infrastructure to support CI/CD and highly available edge distribution.

DESIRED:

• Experience of managing multiple technical and non-technical stakeholders in a complex, agile, matrix environment.
• Experience in creating and managing large complex mono-repos.
• Experience working in the TV domain.

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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