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 Technology?
We are in an incredibly competitive industry and it’s not just the technology that’s important, but the world of promise it creates for our customers. We live and work in a connected world where people want seamless service, great products and the best connectivity there is, as well as continually expecting more and more from us, and rightly so. Technology is BT’s powerhouse, with our expert technologists, we have a unique position in BT. By bringing together our technical and commercial expertise, and our insight and passion for customer experience, we help BT stand out from the competition. With the best networks and smart innovative products, combined with a personal experience, it sets us apart from the pack.
Innovation drives everything we’ve done since BT started in 1846. Coming up with new ideas and developing new technologies is central to our future. We want to improve people’s lives for the better in welcome, relevant and affordable ways and we’ll be fast to market with an effortless experience to match. We will continue to focus on developing our converged network capabilities which will give customers seamless connectivity. Our skilled people will lead this technological revolution, not only for our customers but for the industry across the Globe, truly making customers our heartbeat.
Why this job matters:
This Job Matters as it provides technical expertise, delivering solutions that provide business value and meet customer requirements, including necessary designs, documentation, deployment and in-life support. The role works collaboratively with the teams in unit and external vendors to influence scope and deliver centre of excellence functions and improve efficiency.
Skills required for the job:
- Using Microsoft platform technologies (ASP.NET Web API) and Azure, design, build and modify existing business-tier components, Web applications, and database objects
- Create prototypes to validate proposed ideas and solicit input from stakeholders
- API exposure and implementation for digital identity and profile. Engineering of a highly scalable, resillient, cloud native identity
- Analysis and Design – Converts high-level design to low-level design and implements it
- Collaborate with Team Leads to define/clarify business requirements, estimate development costs, and finalise work plans
- Run unit and integration tests on all created code – Create and run unit and integration tests throughout the development lifecycle
- Benchmark application code proactively to prevent performance and scalability concerns
- Collaborate with the Quality Assurance Team on issue reporting, resolution, and change management
- Support and Troubleshooting – Assist the Operations Team with any environmental issues that arise during application deployment in the Development, QA, Staging, and Production environments
- Assist other teams in resolving issues that may develop as a result of applications or the integration of multiple components
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Understanding of Software Development principles: Complete knowledge of development processes, DevOps, Cloud architecture and infrastructure. Comprehensive knowledge of Jira and confluence tools for collaboration is must
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Technical Knowledge: Over 5 + years of exp in development of Microsoft Azure cloud, Azure DevOps, Active azure directory, understanding of authentication protocols (ODIC and SAML) and ability to write code and develop, understanding of Microsoft Authentication Library (MSAL) and support for other standard compliant libraries. A registration and configuration experience in the Azure portal, along with the other Azure management capabilities, .Net core, C#, REST APIare must.
- Knowledge in azure services like App Service, Storage Account, Keyvault, Service Bus, Application Insights, Redis Cache, Functions, Front Door and powershell knowledge is added advantage.
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System thinking - You provide technical expertise to evaluate the impacts and links between structure, people, process and technology. You think through the whole systems context, new perspectives and insight before taking on projects
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Technology excellence - You build and apply insight about emerging technology to develop and deliver new digital solutions. You break complex information down into understandable language.
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Be agile: Able to collaborative in agile ways of working through projects and programmes effectively managing changing priorities.
Company Benefits
- 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays),
- 10% on target bonus,
- Life Assurance,
- Pension scheme,
- Option to join the Healthcare Cash Plan or other benefits such as dental insurance, gym memberships etc.,
- 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
Interview Process
- Initial Discussion with Talent Acquisition
- Introduction/Meet and greet with hiring lead and a member of the team
- Final stage further technical deep dive with hiring lead and another member of the team
