Head of Engineering- Broadcast & Distribution
- Recruiter
- ITV
- Location
- London
- Salary
- Competitive
- Posted
- 12 Jul 2017
- Closes
- 07 Aug 2017
- Sectors
- Distribution & Warehouse
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Head of Engineering- Broadcast & Distribution
Permanent
London, Grays Inn Road
ITV is the biggest commercial television network in the UK. Behind every famous face, there are hundreds of others, all doing their bit to make things happen. We love telly, we're passionate about content and most importantly we understand our audiences. As a growing international company, we're commercially minded and have a global focus. We're all about pushing the boundaries and being innovative.
New opportunity for a Head of Engineering to provide leadership and direction to the developer and automated tester community across the Broadcast & Distribution team. You will join the Broadcast & Distribution Technology leadership team, working alongside colleagues who are helping us move to a product-centric approach for our business applications, leading the way with embedding modern architectural principles and approaches, and managing the transformation programmes enabling new business capabilities and processes through technology advancement.
This is a technical leadership role with line management responsibility. You will have a solid and current technical background and be confident working across different technologies and software architectures. You will be able to break down, simplify and explain complicated technical subjects so that business people can understand them.
You will lead the development teams to enable them to deliver good solutions through coaching and mentoring techniques but you will make key decisions when required to do so. You will have high standards for software delivery, choice of solutions and architectures. You promote reusable APIs and going back to single source of truth to ensure that data is not duplicated as much as possible. You understand that APIs should evolve and be long living things over and above meeting a short term user story. You are able to balance the needs of delivering value in the short term with a reusable, stable system for the long term. You have experienced multiple life-cycles of product development processes from the inside out.
You will be comfortable managing your team and will work closely with your permanent members of staff and help them to progress and grow their careers. You will mentor and coach them in terms of technical development, but also in the soft skills that are required to work in development teams and operate within the context of the wider business.
You will have experience in the following areas:
Software engineering experience working across different technologies and architectures
Leading software teams in a technical leadership role, preferably leading multiple teams
Experience working in a Agile delivery environment
Development of continuous delivery pipelines, test automation and microservices
Demonstrable experience working with business people to explain technical subjects
Software architecture and design
Ensure the delivery of high quality software that is maintainable and operable
Pairing and code reviews
Code development and testing assistance
Coding standards and quality assurance
Designing and implementing components to specification that are efficient, scalable and well abstracted
Writing unit and functional tests using automated test driven techniques to ensure code quality
We are promoting a DevOps culture so you will need to look beyond pure programming and get involved with the deployment and operation of the software we build.
Our people are our greatest asset and, as an equal opportunities employer, we welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds to work both in front of and behind the cameras.
"ITV, where creativity, diversity and collaboration put us right at the heart of popular culture." Salary: . Date posted: 04/10/2016
Permanent
London, Grays Inn Road
ITV is the biggest commercial television network in the UK. Behind every famous face, there are hundreds of others, all doing their bit to make things happen. We love telly, we're passionate about content and most importantly we understand our audiences. As a growing international company, we're commercially minded and have a global focus. We're all about pushing the boundaries and being innovative.
New opportunity for a Head of Engineering to provide leadership and direction to the developer and automated tester community across the Broadcast & Distribution team. You will join the Broadcast & Distribution Technology leadership team, working alongside colleagues who are helping us move to a product-centric approach for our business applications, leading the way with embedding modern architectural principles and approaches, and managing the transformation programmes enabling new business capabilities and processes through technology advancement.
This is a technical leadership role with line management responsibility. You will have a solid and current technical background and be confident working across different technologies and software architectures. You will be able to break down, simplify and explain complicated technical subjects so that business people can understand them.
You will lead the development teams to enable them to deliver good solutions through coaching and mentoring techniques but you will make key decisions when required to do so. You will have high standards for software delivery, choice of solutions and architectures. You promote reusable APIs and going back to single source of truth to ensure that data is not duplicated as much as possible. You understand that APIs should evolve and be long living things over and above meeting a short term user story. You are able to balance the needs of delivering value in the short term with a reusable, stable system for the long term. You have experienced multiple life-cycles of product development processes from the inside out.
You will be comfortable managing your team and will work closely with your permanent members of staff and help them to progress and grow their careers. You will mentor and coach them in terms of technical development, but also in the soft skills that are required to work in development teams and operate within the context of the wider business.
You will have experience in the following areas:
Software engineering experience working across different technologies and architectures
Leading software teams in a technical leadership role, preferably leading multiple teams
Experience working in a Agile delivery environment
Development of continuous delivery pipelines, test automation and microservices
Demonstrable experience working with business people to explain technical subjects
Software architecture and design
Ensure the delivery of high quality software that is maintainable and operable
Pairing and code reviews
Code development and testing assistance
Coding standards and quality assurance
Designing and implementing components to specification that are efficient, scalable and well abstracted
Writing unit and functional tests using automated test driven techniques to ensure code quality
We are promoting a DevOps culture so you will need to look beyond pure programming and get involved with the deployment and operation of the software we build.
Our people are our greatest asset and, as an equal opportunities employer, we welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds to work both in front of and behind the cameras.
"ITV, where creativity, diversity and collaboration put us right at the heart of popular culture." Salary: . Date posted: 04/10/2016