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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Software Engineering Manager - **Company:** BT Group - **Location:** Birmingham, UK - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Computing Platforms, Cloud Engineering, Continuous Integration, Data Centers, DevOps, Programming Tools, Scrum Methodology, SAP (Applications), Software Engineering, Datadog, Pulumi, Load Balancing, Cloud Platform System, Gitlab, Containerization, Kubernetes, Terraform - **Published:** October 8, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.co.uk/job/gb34b29c7de81df4cd02cd05c2a30d99de/eaa ## About the Role * Strong software engineering background with deep cloud engineering experience; proven track record building cloud-native platforms, developer tooling or platform capabilities * Strong command of Agile delivery practices (Scrum / Kanban) with demonstrable experience owning sprint execution and delivery outcomes * Proven ability to lead, develop and performance-manage engineering teams in a hands-on engineering management capacity Desirable Skills / Experience * Experience in platform engineering or DevOps ecosystems, with familiarity across CI/CD platforms (e.g. GitLab), Kubernetes / container platforms, and Infrastructure as Code (Pulumi / Terraform) * Experience building or scaling Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) and improving developer experience * Experience working across distributed UK and offshore engineering teams * Understanding of developer experience and platform enablement models * Familiarity with observability tooling, platform metrics and SLO / SLA frameworks ## Description This role is critical to delivering a scalable internal platform that enables engineering teams across BT to build, deploy and operate software efficiently at scale. The Engineering Manager, Platform Engineering leads a team of 8-12 engineers responsible for platform capabilities, developer tooling, and application enablement - directly improving the productivity and experience of thousands of engineers across the business. By combining strong people leadership with a genuine engineering background, this role ensures platform teams deliver high-quality, reliable, and adoptable platform services - supporting BT's radical simplification agenda and our path to becoming the UK's best telco. What you'll be doing Platform Delivery & Engineering * Manages and coaches teams of platform engineers, driving the engineering organisation's ability to deliver high-quality platform services on time and within scope * Oversees technical decisions, tooling choices and platform architecture, balancing short-term delivery with long-term platform sustainability * Contributes hands-on to engineering work including platform services, CI/CD tooling, automation and developer-facing capabilities * Partners with the Platform Architecture Lead to implement standards, patterns and platform roadmap outcomes * Monitors and ensures timely, quality releases from teams by driving delivery predictability and compliance with platform engineering standards People Leadership * Leads and develops a team of 8-12 engineers through regular 1:1s, structured goal setting and performance reviews * Manages underperformance proactively with clear improvement plans and career development frameworks * Builds a high-performing, accountable and psychologically safe engineering culture * Coaches and mentors engineers into stronger platform practitioners Delivery & Agile Execution * Drives Agile delivery practices (Scrum / Kanban) to ensure predictable sprint execution and clear team cadence * Partners with the Product Owner to prioritise and sequence the platform backlog, aligned to engineering KPIs Platform Adoption & Enablement * Ensures platform outputs are usable, consumable and actively adopted by engineering teams * Reduces developer friction through onboarding improvements and close collaboration with Developer Experience engineers Cross-Team Collaboration * Works closely with the Platform Architecture Lead (technical direction), Product Owner (prioritisation), and India Engineering Manager (execution and operations alignment) * Takes a managerial and influencing role in the platform engineering function, implementing technical vision and driving a culture of continuous improvement, When you visit any website, it may store or retrieve information on your browser, mostly in the form of cookies. 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