Lead Software Engineer

BTGlasgow, United Kingdomlast year

You will be an influential member of a co-located, multi-disciplinary team responsible for the descign, development, test and support of monitoring and management systems that underpin BT’s Energy, Power & Cooling domain. As a lead software engineer based in BT's main office in Glasgow, you will have a hands-on role in designing, developing and integrating the software applications and automation that drive BT’s energy efficiency, underpinning our environmental commitments while enabling the transformation of BT’s network to all IP digital and supporting the resilience and reliability of this vital piece of the UK critical national infrastructure.

What You’ll Be Doing

Positioned within our co-located Energy, Power & Cooling IT Centre of Excellence in Glasgow, your specific responsibilities will include:

Designing and developing microservice-architectured applications using Java/Spring Boot/RDBMS, employing agile methodologies (SCRUM, prototyping preferred)
Responsible for leading software engineering projects within the team, directing a team of a few software engineers/associate software engineers as required, taking up an Agile/Scrum lead role qhere required
Responsible for subject matter expertise within specific projects, customer interaction related to the subject and controlling changes within this area of expertise
Leverage software development skills to find innovative approaches to problems.
Mentoring of software engineers/associate software engineers
Object oriented analysis and design using common design patterns.
Experience with test-driven development
Represent the software team at requirements and design workshops at BT and supplier sites.
Experience in evaluating and selecting from competing technology options (languages, frameworks, libraries) for component level solutions.
Experience in understanding and applying knowledge from 3rd party technical/regulatory documentation.
Role requires integrating software with plant hardware in our Glasgow test lab during the design and development process.
Experience in managing IT infrastructure from design and commissioning to on-going support and maintenance
DBA experience / appreciation of common performance issues and how to address them.

Skill And Experience

The following skills at Advanced/Expert proficiency are required:

Ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders (customers, other development/ design/support teams, suppliers, development partners)
5+ years Core Java development
Design and implemention of microservice architectures using Spring framework and ReST APIs
5+ years RDBMS development skills, ideally in Oracle and/or PostgresSQL
Test automation and test-driven development
Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment Automation&Orchestration
Non-functional design and development including designing monitoring solutions
Knowledge of IT Security best practice and techniques
Understanding of Dev-Ops technologies and how they can be applied to improve an application / project / team.
Experience in data analysis and reporting
BSc Hons Computing Science or similar degree level qualification.

Experience you would be expected to have REQUIRED

Software development experience, including 5+in Java.
Experience with managing small teams of developers in an agile manner
Experience in working with stakeholders (other designers, suppliers, development teams, ops and customers etc.) to resolve technical issues.
Experience of Microservices Architectures using Spring Boot and ReST APIs
Experience of working with relational databases and SQL (especially PostgresSQl and/or Oracle)
Experience in Linux operating system
Experience in using requirements-management tools and processes (e.g. Jira)
Experience in software test automation and manual testing using standard test tools (Junit, Jira etc.)
Experience in designing and developing code for systems with strong non-functional constraints (performance, reliability, availability)
Experience in version control
Experience in creating design documentation written in the Unified Modelling Language (UML)
Experience performing Show&Tell/Presentations to customers, developers, designers
Experience of building and using CI/CD pipelines
Experience in data analysis and reporting

DESIRABLE

Experience using Maven, Gitlab, Jenkins, Nexus
Linux Shell scripting experience
Experience of Vaadin UI framework
Experience of Oracle PL/SQL
Experience using Kibana/Elastic Search/Logstash
Knowledge/experience of Electricity Metering Industry and Power, Cooling and Energy domain
Experience in integrating hardware with IT systems to facilitate the discovery / exposure of telemetry / control / alarm data

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Is the Lead Software Engineer position at BT remote?: Yes. This role was posted on Remote Frontend Jobs, a job board that lists exclusively fully remote positions.
When was this Lead Software Engineer job posted?: This listing was posted on August 11, 2025 and is still open for applications.
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