Software Engineering Manager

Band: Band E
Salary: Upto £115,000 base salary depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Contract type: Permanent role
Location: Salford or London office – 1 to 2 days a week. This is a hybrid role, and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working

We’re happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application. There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to. 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. The BBC’s digital products play a key role in our mission to inform, educate and entertain the audience.

We are hiring a Software Engineering Manager to lead our newly formed Account Platform Group, part of a strategic restructure to scale identity and access services for millions of users. The BBC offers an inclusive workplace where fairness, respect, equality, dignity and autonomy are part of our everyday goals and behaviours. We select candidates on merit and value diversity in all its forms.

Interview process

• First stage - Virtual and 60 minutes - This is the first stage and consists of an interview with a focus on following lasting 60 minutes. The aim of this section is to discuss your experience of leadership and teams.

• Second Stage - Virtual and 60 minutes - The overall interview is for an hour and consists of a talk from you for 20 minutes which you will prepare based on brief provided to you a week in advance and Q&A from panel. The aim of this section is to discuss your experience of leadership and teams.

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT

As a Software Engineering Manager, you will lead multiple engineering teams focused on building and evolving the BBC’s Account Platform. You’ll be responsible for delivering a trusted and scalable foundation that powers secure identity, access management, and platform capabilities across our portfolio.

You will directly line manage Software Engineering Team Leaders and Principal Engineers, and work closely with peers in Architecture, Product, and Delivery to guide technical strategy and execution. You’ll shape our platform-first strategy, foster engineering excellence, and enable long-term sustainability.

This role is central to our ambition to simplify and modernise our access management systems, support global growth, and accelerate time-to-market for audience-facing products. You’ll also help define engineering culture, technical standards, and ways of working across the group.

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

People

• Experience leading multiple software engineering teams focused on platform capabilities
• Proven ability to recruit, grow, and coach engineering talent and emerging leaders
• Commitment to building inclusive, diverse, and high-performing teams
• Ability to foster a culture of ownership, curiosity, and continuous improvement

Delivery

• Skilled at managing stakeholders across Product, UX&D, Architecture, and Delivery
• Track record of delivering complex technical solutions at scale
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and driving clarity in fast-moving environments
• Experience aligning teams to shared OKRs, engineering principles, and planning rituals

Technical

• Deep understanding of platform architecture, access management systems, and identity services
• Experience with DevOps practices and ensuring high availability of platform services
• Strong grasp of service design, infrastructure-as-code, and cloud-native engineering
Passion for improving engineering craft, tooling, and operational resilience

Disclaimer

This 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: [email protected]

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.