Principal Front End Engineer

Job Description
– Principal Front End Engineer (169494)

Principal Front End Engineer ( 169494 )

Job function

: Design and delivery

Main location

: UK & Ireland-United Kingdom-West Midlands-Birmingham

Schedule

: Full-time

Working pattern

: Standard

Salary : Competitive with great benefits

Our mission is to break down the barriers of today to release the potential of tomorrow.

Join us today and release yours.

There are two things that we want to share with anyone considering joining us.

Firstly, we’ve got big ambitions for our colleagues and the future of the organisation.

These include our vision that inclusion and accessibility drive every conversation we have and every decision we make.

We want our workforce to fully represent the communities and customers we serve, because a diverse business is a better business.

We value every colleague, their diversity and the contribution that they make.

When we say you’re welcome at BT, we really mean it.

Secondly, the one thing the pandemic has taught us is that a lot of current and future colleagues, where and when possible, want to embrace hybrid working.

Therefore, we are introducing smart working at BT.

Smart working means having the flexibility to choose, as a team, how and where you work depending on your team’s deliverables and needs; when you are at your shared core location to connect with others and when not.

It may not be for every role, and, as part of the recruitment process, you’ll have the chance to discuss smart working and how it might work for the job you are applying for.

About this role

Delivering quality digital architecture and solutions for our customers is at the heart of everything we do.

As a Principal Front End Engineer you will be responsible for leading and defining the front end architecture for the next generation of Consumer Digital Products and Propositions.

From feasibility assessments, to solution scoping, conceptual design and engineering delivery, you will be the driving force of the architecture delivery and technical product roadmap for our front end stack.

This is a hands on role and you’ll have a passion for front end coding as well as growing, leading and mentoring our front end squad to become a world class team delivering frameworks that are used to build brilliant experiences across the business.

You’ll have the following responsibilities

• Architecting, building and supporting front end experience frameworks used across Digital Consumer
• Setting the technical direction of front end technologies across the whole of Consumer Digital, ensuring its technology keeps up to date with latest frameworks and industry best practice as appropriate
• Line management, recruitment, mentoring and goal setting for the front end enablement squad engineers, helping build both their careers and BT’s front capability
• Practice lead for front end engineering in BT Consumer.

  Working with the wider business to help upskill the squads across our alliances with the rights skills, frameworks and best practises to accelerate delivery of world class user experiences

• Ensuring solutions are fit for purpose and conform to our architectural principles
• Provide clear, actionable insights and proposals to the leadership team
• Work with the Product Owners, Project / Programme, Development, Test to participate on solution architecture for Digital, including validating detailed requirements and process / experience mapping in order to facilitate effective development solutions
• Work with other parts of the group and within wider technical communities outside the business, in order to share learnings around FE best practise and tooling 
• Maintain and grow relationships with strategic external partners and open source projects to influence their roadmaps and continue taking best advantage of their evolving capabilities
• Lead by example, living the company values: Personal, Simple & Brilliant

You’ll have the following skills & experience

• You will have established yourself as a trusted technology leader, from successful experience in building and delivering frontend applications from start to end, and you have in-depth knowledge of the full lifecycle of frontend development from choosing the right tools for business needs to develop quality applications, to deployment and iterate.
• You have an engineering profile with at least 10 years of experience designing and maintaining large and scalable frontend applications with hands-on knowledge of design systems and modern frameworks like React, Angular, JAMStacks etc.

  You have experience in mobile application development using React Native or Flutter. 

• You’re experienced in designing, configuring, deploying and managing cloud-based applications using terraform, serverless architecture etc… 
• You’re experienced in delivering decoupled applications in weeks/ days with consistent quality and unified technology, processes and good practices.
• Demonstrable experience as a Senior/Lead Front End Engineer providing strong technical direction for both web and native applications
• Experience of Agile development practices and techniques
• Ability to build strong relationships with Leadership teams 
• Line management inc recruitment, mentoring and people development
• 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
• 15% on target bonus
• Life Assurance
• Private Medical cover 
• Share save scheme
• 50% off BT and EE mobile pay monthly or SIM only plans
• Exclusive colleague discounts on our latest and greatest BT broadband packages
• BT TV, including BT Sport and the NOW Entertainment membership, and 25% off NOW Sport, Cinema and Kids
• 30% discount for friends and family on EE mobile pay monthly and SIM only plans

About BT

BT has a key role in British society, fostering change and leading technology innovation.

From delivering the Olympics, to supporting the emergency services, to investing more into research than any other UK technology company, we take pride in everything we do
– and in the people who work here.

We’re now a global company operating at the forefront of the information age, employing 90,000 people in 180 countries.

And we’re on a mission.

Guided by our core values of Personal, Simple and Brilliant our goal is to help customers, communities and businesses overcome barriers and release their potential.

So, if you’re interested in the power of potential, why not join us today and release yours?

You can read more here about what it’s like to work at BT

How to Apply

It’s easy to apply online; you just need a copy of your up-to-date CV and to follow the step-by step process.

Don’t worry if you need to make changes
– you’ll have the opportunity to review and edit your work on the final page.

We look forward to receiving your application!