Senior Principal Software Engineer

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JOB BAND: E
CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-time
DEPARTMENT: Discoverability
LOCATION: Office Base is Newcastle or Salford Dock House - Hybrid. This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working.
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: Up to £115,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

We're happy to discuss flexible working. If you'd like to, please indicate your preference in the application - though there's no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

Job Introduction

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

Our Discoverability teams are building platform capabilities that make it easier for audiences to find personalised and contextually relevant content. Our goal is to create the first personalisation platform rooted in public service values.

We're looking for an experienced software engineering leader in Machine Learning to join us as a Senior Principal Software Engineer. You will be responsible for shaping, developing and delivering machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions. This will help create robust, scalable and innovative personalisation systems that power our digital services.

Interview process

Two stage interview process

Technical task for shortlisted candidates - approx. one hour preparation time (week commencing 18th August this may be subject to change")
Virtual interview - approx. one hour of technical and values-based questions interviews to begin 4th September this may be subject to change")

Main Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and mentoring, set technical standards and define best practice.
• Ensure reliability, scalability and maintainability of our ML capabilities.
• Cross functional collaboration with product, architecture and data science
• Ensure that machine learning solutions are effectively integrated into products and deliver measurable, sustainable business value
• Identify and champion innovation within teams
• Active participant in Industry ML forums and communities

Are you the right candidate?

• Excellent communication skills and experience with managing multi-disciplinary stakeholders.
• Extensive experience setting technical direction across multiple teams.
• Extensive experience in large scale machine learning, including building, deploying, scaling and securing ML infrastructure in cloud-native environments.
• Strong experience with AWS services including SageMaker, Bedrock, S3, EC2, Lambda, IAM, VPC, ECS/EKS, DynamoDB, Kafka, CloudFormation and associated technologies such as Python
• Proven ability to drive cross functional technical initiatives and deliver results through collaboration and alignment.

Disclaimer

This job description 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.

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.

Information at a Glance This is your BBC

At the BBC you can create and innovate in an inclusive environment while contributing to some of the world's best loved content, and the BBC's mission to inform, educate and entertain.

Find out more about the BBC Life at BBC

Here you will benefit from:

• Fair pay and flexible benefits including a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pensionscheme and discounted dental, health care and gym.
• Excellent career and professional development.
• Support in your working life, including flexible working which you can discuss with us at any point during the application, selection or offer.
• A values-based organisation where the way we do things is important as what we do.

Benefits may vary if you are joining on an FTC basis.

Learn more about life at the BBC and our values in our candidate pack.

Candidate pack You belong

We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, so all our employees feel that they can belong, thrive and achieve their full potential.

We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to join us. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.

We welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.

Find out more about diversity, inclusion and belonging in our strategy below.

Diversity, inclusion & belonging strategy Disability confident

We are a disability confident employer. If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process, or to carry out this role, please contact us via email and we'd be happy to discuss:

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