top 3 scores:
82%

Autonomy

76%

Hours flexibility

72%

Work-life balance

Job Description


Why BT?
We’ve always been an organisation with purpose; to use the power of communications to make a better world. You can trace this back to our beginning as pioneers of the world’s first telecommunications company. At our heart we’re a technology company with research and innovation in our bones and a desire to be personal, simple, and brilliant for our customers - those are the values we live by whilst also creating an inclusive working environment where people from all backgrounds can succeed.

Our pursuit of progress over the past 180 years has established BT as a strong, successful brand, with huge scale capable of achieving great things. From supporting emergency services, hospitals, banks and keeping economies around the world online, safe and secure, to delivering large scale technology infrastructure like the creation of BT Sport.

Today in this fast changing, always on, digital world our purpose remains true. Yet the market conditions, regulation and competition we face are tougher than ever before. So if you have the drive, optimism and resilience to help propel us forward we’ll offer unrivalled personal development, a wealth of opportunities to learn, experience new things and pursue new careers. If that’s you and what you’re looking for, we’d love you to be part of our future.

Why this job matters

The Software Engineering Professional supports the execution of the software engineering strategy and roadmap that supports BT's commercial strategy through cross functional project and technical delivery and the participation of a team that pursues innovation as well as engineering excellence.

What you’ll be doing

  • Experience in designing & development in Core Java/JS/Oracle technologies and lead from
  • an Engineering point of view.
  • To analyze problems and propose solutions with high quality.
  • Good understanding of telecom OSS domain.
  • Ability to deep dive on technical areas and get the best outcome out of technically
  • challenging situations.
  • Possess good hands-on experience and be able to mentor technical teams.
  • Understand need of multiple projects and communicate them divisionally and/or crossdivisionally
  • Adopt new and emerging technologies to provide solutions to meet challenging needs.
  • Ability to debug complex issues and provide the right solution
  • Ability to drive and validate technical and functional designs and lead to implementation.
  • May involve liaising with internal, external and third-party suppliers

Skills Required

  • Minimum 4 years of Hands-on coding ability and strong analytical skills to trouble shoot and provide technological solutions using Java/J2EE, design Patterns, Oracle, PLSQL, Tomcat and JavaScript.
  • Hands-on coding ability in Spring Boot, Rest APIs and Microservices.
  • Hands-on experience in Bootstrap, AngularJS.
  • Working knowledge of performance tuning of application and continuous integration
  • techniques.
  • Effective verbal and written communication skills.
  • Working Experience in Jenkins, Sonar and Devops.
  • Contributing to planning and prioritizing Agile Delivery tasks/stories within team

Company benefits

Enhanced maternity leave – 18 weeks full pay, 8 weeks half pay, 6 months statutory
Enhanced paternity leave – 18 weeks full pay, 8 weeks half pay, 6 months statutory
25 (UK, increasing with service) / 21 (India) days annual leave + bank holidays
Carer’s leave – Two weeks paid leave
Open to job sharing
Open to part time work for some roles
Private GP service – 24/7 virtual GP access for UK colleagues
Mental health platform access – Calm app and Silvercloud
Adoption leave – 18 weeks full pay, 8 weeks half pay, 6 months statutory
Shared parental leave
Buy or sell annual leave – buy up to 5 days/year pro rata
Flexible working week
Employee assistance programme
Bank holiday swaps
Share options
Compassionate leave
Faith rooms
Salary sacrifice
Employee discounts
Cinema discounts
Enhanced sick pay – 3 months
Optional unpaid leave
Returnship
Complimentary Medical Services
Travel loan
Enhanced pension match/contribution
Volunteer days – 3 volunteer days per year
Lunch and learns
Cycle to work scheme
In house training
Mentoring
LinkedIn learning license – unlimited access
Learning platform – internal and external learning content via Degreed
L&D budget – sponsored accreditation available for certain professions
Coaching
Referral bonus
Neo-natal leave

We asked employees of BT Business what it's like to work there, and this is what they told us.

Location flexibility
67%
Employees are largely happy with their working location freedom
Hours flexibility
76%
Employees are largely happy with the flexibility in the hours they work
Benefits
70%
Employees are largely happy with the benefits their company offers
Work-life balance
72%
Employees feel that they can switch off quite easily from work
Role modelling
67%
Employees feel that most people work flexibly
Autonomy
82%
Employees feel they have complete autonomy over getting their work done

Working at BT Business

Company employees

100,000 across BT Group (24,000 at BT Business)

Gender diversity (male:female)

74.3:25.7 (BT Group)

Currently Hiring Countries

Brazil

China

Colombia

Hungary

India

Ireland

Japan

Spain

United Kingdom

Office Locations

Awards & Achievements