Software Engineering Specialist

Salary: £36,000 - 67,000 per year

Requirements:

• We need strong experience building and supporting scalable backend services using Java, Spring Boot, microservices, and API-first architectures.
• We need proven expertise deploying and operating cloud-native applications in AWS and EKS, including containerisation, observability, resilience, and CI/CD practices.
• We need experience leading end-to-end engineering delivery, making architectural decisions, mentoring engineers, and driving operational excellence across complex enterprise platforms.
• We value Oracle database expertise, including schema design, performance tuning, and data integration.
• We value consumer billing platform experience within telecoms or other large-scale enterprise environments.
• We value NetCracker RBM knowledge and associated billing platform integrations.
• We value event-driven architecture and domain-driven design experience.
• We value CI/CD automation and DevOps tooling expertise.
• We value production support and incident management experience, including root cause analysis and resilience planning.
• We value cross-functional stakeholder management across Product, Architecture, Security, QA, and Operations teams.
• We value familiarity with AI technologies within software engineering and operational environments.

Responsibilities:

• We will lead the rollout of new technology across consumer billing platforms, ensuring changes are delivered safely, predictably, and with minimal service disruption.
• We will drive end-to-end delivery from solution design through build, test, deployment, and production support for billing services.
• We will establish engineering standards, release readiness, and delivery controls that support resilient, high-quality platform change.
• We will design and evolve cloud-native billing solutions using microservices architecture, API-first design, and scalable integration patterns.
• We will make key technical decisions across Java/Spring Boot services, AWS-hosted workloads, EKS deployment models, and Oracle DB data design.
• We will ensure solutions are secure, scalable, supportable, and aligned to enterprise architecture and billing domain requirements.
• We will create and enhance new microservices and backend capabilities using Java and Spring Boot to support billing journeys, integrations, and platform modernisation.
• We will review, optimise, and troubleshoot application code, service interactions, container deployments, and database access across the billing estate.
• We will support technical discovery for existing and brownfield billing applications to identify dependency, migration, and simplification opportunities.
• We will ensure billing services are deployed and operated effectively in AWS and EKS, with strong observability, logging, alerting, and operational controls.
• We will lead production readiness, resilience planning, performance tuning, and root-cause analysis for customer and revenue-impacting incidents.
• We will improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and engineering practices to accelerate safe and repeatable change.
• We will guide Oracle DB usage, data access patterns, and schema considerations to ensure performance, integrity, and traceability across billing solutions.
• We will work with dependent systems and teams to maintain reliable billing flows, reconciliations, and operational controls across integrated services.
• We will provide technical leadership to engineers, setting direction through design reviews, code reviews, and architectural guidance.
• We will mentor team members in microservices engineering, Java/Spring Boot development, AWS/EKS operations, Oracle DB integration, and modern engineering practice.
• We will drive a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and operational excellence across delivery teams.
• We will collaborate with Product, Architecture, Security, QA, Operations, and dependent delivery teams to align technical change to business priorities.
• We will communicate delivery plans, technical decisions, risks, and trade-offs clearly to support informed decision-making across stakeholders.

Technologies:

• AI
• API
• AWS
• Backend
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• DevOps
• Incident Management
• Support
• Java
• Oracle
• Security
• Spring
• Spring Boot
• microservices
• DDD
• Mobile

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BT Group is the UKs leading communications group and the holding company behind BT, EE, Openreach and Plusnet. Our purpose is to connect for good, serving consumers, businesses, public sector organisations and other communications providers. We are focusing on simplifying how we operate, using technology and AI to work smarter, and organising ourselves to serve customers better and grow sustainably. Our group teams shape strategy, policy, brand, capital allocation and transformation, helping the organisation perform at its best. We offer a comprehensive package that includes a 10% on target annual bonus, access to an online private GP 24/7 for you and your immediate family, market-leading paid carers leave, equalized maternity, paternity and adoption leave, discounted EE and BT products, a market-leading pension scheme, a holiday purchase scheme, and additional benefits such as healthcare, dental and gym memberships. Joining BT Group means working at the heart of a business that matters to the UK, with the opportunity to shape decisions, influence outcomes and help set the future course of one of the countrys most important companies.

last updated 36 week of 2026