Principal Enterprise Architect - DevSecOps and Developer Platforms

Our Digital unit is responsible for leading BT’s digital transformation, delivering brilliant customer experiences and creating the innovative products and services our customers need. Across BT we have thousands of developers and software engineers that design, build and test capabilities used by colleagues and customers. Security, productivity, quality and developer experience are therefore critical to BT’s success and how Digital provides the best tools and platforms to support the software development lifecycle (SDLC) is key. This job puts you at the forefront of this and our journey to build an amazing internal developer platform, with stand-out developer experience, enabling best-in-class developer productivity and embedding security at all stages. Protecting BT and our customers is extremely important. This role will have a dotted line to the Security Architecture Director for BT Group, and you will ensure alignment to the wider security architecture strategy and capabilities, acting as a bridge between the digital and security architecture teams for DevSecOps.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Sets and drives the enterprise architecture strategy for DevSecOps, leading road mapping, goal setting, project execution, and roll-out strategy in tight partnership with stakeholders.
• Decides the viable architectural frameworks to implement that support long term maintainability, extensibility, and interoperability.
• Drives architectural assessments, technology selection, and technology roadmaps.
• Manages the alignment with cross-functional teams through the lifecycle to empower decision making.
• Operates as an SME within own field of expertise and acts as expert advisor to other teams and senior management on the most complex enterprise architecture related issues and provides consultation regarding opportunities to enhance efficiency and effectiveness in system capabilities.
• Leads the development of the conceptualization of innovative services or products within enterprise architecture.
• Mentors and coaches experienced professionals to develop current and future team capabilities and ensure performance.

Skills

• Experience within the IT/Digital industry.
• Experience of enterprise architecture.
• Experience of software engineering technologies (SCM, CI/CD, BDD/TDD, etc. across the entire SDLC).
• Experience with technologies such as agile project management, issue/backlog management, collaboration tools, etc.
• Personal experience of software development in an enterprise environment.
• Multi-sector experience; telecommunications is useful but not essential.
• Architecture experience of software engineering and related technologies.
• DevSecOps practices and capabilities such as SAST/DAST, SCA, SBOM, etc.
• Modern software engineering practices and cloud native technologies (Public Cloud: AWS, GCP, Azure; Kubernetes).

Our leadership standards

• Looking in: Leading inclusively and Safely — I inspire and build trust through self-awareness, honesty and integrity. Owning outcomes — I take the right decisions that benefit the broader organisation.
• Looking out: Delivering for the customer — I execute brilliantly on clear priorities that add value to our customers and the wider business. Commercially savvy — I demonstrate strong commercial focus, bringing an external perspective to decision-making.
• Looking to the future: Growth mindset — I experiment and identify opportunities for growth for both myself and the organisation. Building for the future — I build diverse future-ready teams where all individuals can be at their best.

Benefits

• Annual On target bonus 15% (personal and company multipliers).
• Car allowance - worth £5,500 a year, can be taken as cash.
• Private healthcare for you and your family.
• BT Pension scheme; minimum 5% employee contribution, BT contribution 10%.
• Life Assurance.
• Direct share scheme.
• Exclusive colleague discounts on BT broadband packages.
• 50% off EE mobile pay monthly or SIM only plans and 50% discount for friends and family on EE SIM only plans.
• My Discounts for savings on everyday purchases.
• Discounted EE TV including TNT Sport and NOW Entertainment.
• Support for working parents including pay while on maternity, adoptive, and paternity leave.
• 25 days annual leave (plus buy holiday option).
• Volunteering days.
• Brand new electric vehicle salary sacrifice arrangement, known as ‘My EV’.

BT Group was the world’s first telco. We host recognised brands – BT, EE, Openreach and Plusnet – and are focused on improving connectivity, AI, and driving digital transformation to create the UK’s best telco experience.

A FEW POINTS TO NOTE: Although these roles are listed as full-time, flexible working arrangements can be discussed. We offer reasonable adjustments for the selection process if required. DON’T MEET EVERY SINGLE REQUIREMENT? We encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply even if not all qualifications are met.