Principal Software Engineer

Principal Software Engineer x2

CT&C

Permanent

White City, London

Hiring range: £120,000

For more information please email TalkingCareers@itv.com

Your work matters to millions.

Shaping culture is in the DNA of ITV. So, it's not surprising that you'll find us in every home in the UK, our productions are famous all over the world and we're at the forefront of the digital streaming revolution.

When you join us, you enter a fun working environment. With opportunities to learn, to grow and make a real difference. Small enough that your impact's felt in the business, but big enough that your impact reaches millions of people.

Come develop your skills, change TV and the course of your career. Don't just watch it. Be part of it. Join ITV.

Your impact sends ripples.

The team

Millions of people use the products we build. We're customer focused, informed by data and have a product mindset, using state-of-the-art cloud-first technology. Iterating and evolving daily. In a fast-changing world, we not only make sure our systems work effectively but our Technology teams are spearheading the transformation to a digital-first business. There's never been a more exciting time to join us.

As part of the Advanced Advertising Technology team, the focus is on data analytics, monetisation and financial governance. When you join us, you enter a fun working environment with opportunities to learn, to grow and make a real difference. Small enough that your impact's felt in the business, but big enough that your impact reaches millions of people.

The role

As a Principal Engineer you will be known as a technical authority and champion of engineering delivery. You will identify, define and nurture the how and the what with regards to our software engineering process. You will own and support initiatives which lift our general level of competency and working culture, and be excited about helping people achieve their full potential. You will be expected to work with a good degree of independence and autonomy.

Key Responsibilities:

• Capability: recruiting, building and maintaining a strong software engineering team
• Line Management: line reporting for a small group of engineers
• Product Development: working with your team and other CT&C engineering functions own, deliver and maintain the physical architecture / designs for the systems you are responsible for
• Data Platform Development: Designing and building scalable, cloud-native data pipelines and machine learning workloads - data engineering
• Machine Learning Solutions: Collaborating with data scientists to deliver ML based cloud solutions incorporating automated training pipelines, inference workflows. Implementation of CI/CD pipelines for deploying and monitoring ML models in production
• Governance & Security: adhere to architecture governance practices and ensure compliance with ITV data privacy and security regulations. Follow best DevOps and DevSecOps practices, to ensure successful delivery, observability, operation and security of software in production.
• Support & Monitoring: ensure all features conform to all observability requirements and suitable dashboards are in place. Promote a long term design philosophy to proactively reduce incidents and firefighting
• Continuous Improvement: be proactive in introducing current and new industry trends and emerging technologies into our software engineering domain. Identify opportunities for process improvement, automation, and innovation to enhance software engineering capabilities. Lead PoCs and present their conclusions with recommendations. Engage with the ITV Common Platform team to promote feature enhancements and improvements and be an active community member. As well as being an active member of our appropriate CT&C guilds.

Personal Qualities

• Leadership: you will inspire and influence others to work towards a common goal.
• Delivery: you will have a reputation for software engineering excellence, which is derived from a deep personal interest in this field. You will consider yourself to be a highly competent and decisive problem solver, as well as highly motivated to always deliver value in a timely manner. As such, you will ensure your team is always productive and delivering value.
• Technology outlook: Inquisitive and personal desire to stay up to date in evolving and changing technology approaches and tooling and how to meaningfully apply them to achieve improvements in productivity and quality.
• Alignment approach: an eagerness to lead the discovery and decision process regarding tech choices, building alignment and promoting best practice within the engineering organisation.

• T-shaped orientation: through collaboration you will consider and promote the needs of product management, product design, quality assurance, service management, support, change management and customer success.

• Influence: You are experienced and confident in guiding your team, and the wider team, towards establishing a common understanding of goals and gaining acceptance of fresh concepts.

• Outcome/Process Balance: you are a structured and process-oriented thinker, yet remain flexible and adaptable to effectively deliver desired outcomes and results.

• Agile mindset: you embrace change and are willing to adapt to evolving requirements, as well as seek to promote continuous improvement both in your own work and that of the team.

Qualifications and Skills

• 6 years leading cross-discipline agile software engineering teams
• Experience as a design authority (eg Software Architect) delivering a number of successful Web/API/micro-service or ML/data engineering based systems into production
• Experience in designing and implementing a modern MLOps Architecture using Cloud-native or SaaS services bringing Data Science and modern Software Engineering together.

• Deep understanding and awareness of software architecture design patterns and principles and able to communicate these effective and promote adoption
• Historically strong programming and technology skills in TypeScript, React, GraphQL, Node.js, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Terraform, JSON
• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and associated services (e.g. Route53, Cognito, WAF, AppSync, RDS, AWS infra, Lambda, CloudWatch, EventBridge, Step Functions, S3, Sagemaker, Glue, PySpark etc)

• Good knowledge of AWS and other Technology services for building Data-driven AI-based applications, creating a cloud environment via IaC for a scalable, secure, and reliable architecture
• Strong communication and collaboration abilities, with the ability to work effectively in a team environment
• Confident approaching development with TDD principles, embracing code quality standards, and integration with CI/CD tooling
• Worked with source control systems such as Github, experience in deploying code via CI/CD platforms (e.g. Github Actions, Jenkins)
• Knowledge of serverless monitoring and debugging tools, and DevSecOps tooling
• Familiarity with data and ML modelling, model lifecycle, database systems, and Data Engineering optimization techniques

• Excellent problem-solving, analytical thinking, and troubleshooting skills

Other things we're looking for (key criteria)

• Knowledge of the UK broadcast industry & broadcast/OTT advertising market.
• Knowledge of the digital marketing and advertising industry.
• Knowledge of Terraform and CloudFormation as IaC technologies.
• Experience using AWS serverless technologies including Lambda, Step Functions, Aurora.
• SSO solutions such as Cognito, Okta.
• Working knowledge of GitHubActions or other CI/CD frameworks.
• Good understanding of data governance, data privacy, and security principles.

ITV is for everyone.

ITV strongly encourages applications for this role from disabled people. As a Disability Confident Leader, if you meet the minimum criteria for a role and you have declared that you are disabled, we'll guarantee to take you to the next stage* (minimum criteria above).

We're happy to discuss any support/personalisation you may need during our application and selection process as part of our reasonable adjustments. Drop us a line if you require anything at talkingcareers@itv.com.

Find out more about applying with a disability.

* There may be a few exceptions where we are not able to take all eligible candidates to the next stage due to the volume of applications.

Because those who make an impact deserve to be rewarded for it.

ITV offers some great rewards and benefits including:

• Flexible working with a range of options
• Generous holiday allowance, plus you can buy more
• Annual bonus opportunity
• Competitive pension contribution
• Save as you earn - with an opportunity to buy ITV shares
• Wellbeing and volunteering days plus a wide range of opportunities to help you live a balanced and healthy life

More about our benefits

Closing date: Monday 17th February 2025]]>