Senior Manager, Corporate Functions and Tools
Job Req ID: 30067
Posting Date: 24 Apr 2024
Function: Software Engineering
Unit: Digital
Location:
Deansgate, Manchester, United Kingdom
Salary: Competitive with great benefits
Why this job matters
This role is critical for achieving key business transformation by guiding the strategic vision of the software engineering practice and through this enables business change to execute the roadmap that supports BT's commercial strategy through cross functional business collaboration.
This is a hybrid model role (3 days a week in the office) based in Manchester or Birmingham.
What you’ll be doing
Accountable for the BT group wide corporate function systems & IT strategies for areas like Legal & Regulatory, Properties & Facilities & Corporate Affairs
Accountable for the pan-BT Archival platform, which helps terminate legacy systems by securely storing the data during the mandatory retention period
Accountable for PPM (Project & Portfolio Management) toolsets that help the various business units keep a track of their end customer deliveries and revenue as well as understand the throughput of our Agile teams
Accountable for various pan-BT tooling capabilities that solve specific business problems (e.g., business travel, ESG, health & safety etc.)
Defines the tooling strategies across the areas working closely with the Enterprise/Tribe Architects and create a multi year roadmap for the same
Helps define the transformative business processes that help the different units become efficient through implementation of required tooling
Eliminates legacy and works towards building a system estate in line with the BT Group wide architectural strategy
Directly manages a large team of program managers, software engineers and leads from the front to deliver the right software for the business
Influences various cross functional teams like business analysts, software testers, UX professionals and scrum masters to ensure the whole tribe moves in the direction of agreed strategy for that area
Ensures the in life stability of the systems and works on continuous improvement of the system performance and capabilities
Interworks with various units and stakeholders like Enterprise Architects, Directors of different Corporate Functions and other system owners to help drive the adoption of new tools
Accountable for multi million pounds worth of gross managed costs
Pre-empts business change needs, estimates and builds large multi year business cases and secures approvals from various investment boards
Defines the strategy, vision, roadmap and delivers those for the stakeholders benefitting whole of BT Group
Decides the effective ways of working with both stakeholders and internal teams and champions Agile methodologies and leads the tribe using capacity model principles
Influences Director and MD level stakeholders on business strategies
Demonstrates technical thought leadership that inspires the engineering teams to become their best
Required Experience and Skills
Extensive experience in delivering large scale and complex programs efficiently
Ability to manage, assess impact and deliver large scale change in complex and matrixed environments
Consult and define on strategy, identify business outcomes and lead on delivery
Extensive experience analysing and connecting concepts and components across the entirety of a domain ecosystem to understand how value flows through and diagnose and resolve complex problems across cross-functional contexts
Prior experience with key domains like Legal & Regulatory, Corporate Affairs would be highly preferred
Experience in leading software engineering teams across multiple technologies like Java, .NET, AWS and ability to influence and deliver solutions on SaaS platforms as well
Ability to understand and influence budgetary decisions
Solving business and technical transformation challenges across a vast and senior set of stakeholders
Translating complex business needs into a vision and executing against that vision
Strong communication skills that can deliver inspiring ideas
Benefits
Competitive salary
25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
15% on target bonus
Company car cash allowance
Life Assurance
Pension scheme
Private Medical cover
Direct share scheme
50% off EE mobile pay monthly or SIM only plans
Exclusive colleague discounts on our latest and greatest BT broadband packages
BT TV with TNT Sports and NOW Entertainment
50% discount for friends and family on EE SIM Only plans & airtime element off a Flex Pay plan
Our leadership standards
Looking in:
Leading inclusively and Safely
I inspire and build trust through self-awareness, honesty and integrity.
Owning outcomes
I take the right decisions that benefit the broader organisation.
Looking out:
Delivering for the customer
I execute brilliantly on clear priorities that add value to our customers and the wider business.
Commercially savvy
I demonstrate strong commercial focus, bringing an external perspective to decision-making.
Looking to the future:
Growth mindset
I experiment and identify opportunities for growth for both myself and the organisation.
Building for the future
I build diverse future-ready teams where all individuals can be at their best.
About us
BT is part of BT Group, along with EE, Openreach, and Plusnet.
Millions of people rely on us every day to help them live their lives, power their businesses, and keep their public services running. We connect friends to family, clients to colleagues, people to possibilities. We keep the wheels of business spinning, and the emergency services responding.
We value diversity and celebrate difference. ‘We embed diversity and inclusion into everything that we do. It’s fundamental to our purpose: we connect for good.’
We all stick to the same values: Personal, Simple, and Brilliant. From day one, you’ll get stuck in to tough challenges, pitch in with ideas, make things happen. But you won’t be alone: we’ll be there with help and support, learning and development.
This is your chance to make a real difference to the world: to be part of the digital transformation of countless lives and businesses. Grab it.
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.
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