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Software Engineering Team Lead

Job Requisition ID: 26495
Job Closing Date: 15/08/2025
JOB PROFILE
JOB BAND: D
CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-time
DEPARTMENT: Account and Identity, Product Engineering
LOCATION: London or Salford - 1 day a week in the office
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: Up to 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
The BBC Account team is responsible for building trusted and scalable services that power seamless and secure identity, access and personalised experiences. Every day, these are used by millions of people on key BBC products including iPlayer, Sounds, News, Sport, and Bitesize. This gives our work unparalleled reach across web, TV, and mobile experiences. As a Software Engineering Team Lead in Account, you will drive forward teams delivering robust platform capabilities and exciting new functionality in our ambition to make a personalised digital-first BBC for everyone.
WHY JOIN THE TEAM
We are looking for current or aspiring technology leaders who have a passion for leading high performing engineering teams and developing, guiding and mentoring people. Our multi-disciplinary agile teams use the latest technologies, inspire innovation and have autonomy. You will be surrounded by like-minded technology professionals from whom you can learn and grow in an environment where we love to share ideas and challenge the traditional. We also promote a healthy work-life balance with opportunities for flexible working hours.
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, managing engineers' day to day, and developing their careers.
The focus of the role includes:

• People: Recruit, mentor, coach and line manage permanent and nearshore/onshore teams, assuring the quality of their work and professional development.
• Environment: Create an environment in which people can be their best. This will involve working with the Account and Identity technical leadership team 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 estate of Identity and Access management - improve our software and products to be aligned with Platform Principles, share knowledge, and improve development life cycle processes.
• Deliver: Drive the execution of new features and platform capabilities. Work closely with other disciplines to understand the projects we are delivering. Empower your team to plan work, overcome challenges, and deliver results.

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:

• A track record of building effective software engineering teams (both staff and 3rd party) with a focus on mentoring, coaching and development.
• Experience leading engineering teams to deliver effective software solutions, including managing teams through designing, writing and supporting large-scale tech stacks.
• Proficiency building and maintaining infrastructure on cloud platforms and effective and resilient CI/CD pipelines.
• Expertise in one or more mainstream development languages - we primarily use JavaScript, TypeScript and Java.
• Ability to communicate complex technology solutions in a clear and coherent way to different audiences, including to effectively manage multiple technical and non-technical stakeholders.

DESIRED BUT NOT REQUIRED:

• Confidence in effective recruitment of engineers across a range of disciplines and skill levels.
• Experience working with Identity and Access Management systems.
• Knowledge of AWS cloud infrastructure and services. Including experience with AWS; CDK, CloudFormation, Lambda, EC2, Kinesis, WAF, ALB.
• Experience working on zero down time systems and providing live support in the event of service disruption.

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.
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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