Software Engineering Manager

BT Group • birmingham, england • Posted June 30, 2026

About the Role

Job Req ID: 57897

Location: Manchester or Birmingham

About the role

This role is critical to delivering a scalable internal platform that enables engineering teams across BT to build, deploy and operate software efficiently at scale. The Engineering Manager, Platform Engineering leads a team of 8–12 engineers responsible for platform capabilities, developer tooling, and application enablement – directly improving the productivity and experience of thousands of engineers across the business.

By combining strong people leadership with a genuine engineering background, this role ensures platform teams deliver high-quality, reliable, and adoptable platform services – supporting BT’s radical simplification agenda and our path to becoming the UK’s best telco.

What you’ll be doing

Platform Delivery & Engineering

  • Manages and coaches teams of platform engineers, driving the engineering organisation’s ability to deliver ...