Migrations Engineering Manager

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Migrations Engineering Manager

Posting Date: 25 Mar 2025

Function: Software Engineering

Unit: Digital

Location: Riverside Tower, Belfast (N.I), United Kingdom

This role is based at our Belfast office. We have a hybrid working model of 3 days together, 2 days wherever.

Why this job matters

The Migration Platform underpins BT Group's transformation strategy, enabling seamless migration of customers and services across our IT, product, and network estates. As an Engineering Manager, you will lead a team of 50-75 multidisciplinary subcontractors across design, development, testing, and data analytics. You will play a critical role in shaping migration strategies, reducing fallout, and driving automation and AI-powered efficiencies. This role is pivotal in evolving our migration capabilities from reactive, ad hoc solutions to a strategic, industry-leading platform, supporting the breadth of BT Group.

What you'll be doing

• Lead and manage squads focused on delivering large-scale, data-driven migration projects across Consumer, Business, and International segments.
• Own and optimise the resource profile, ensuring the right mix of skills to meet demand while managing costs effectively.
• Work closely with senior stakeholders, including business unit leads, programme managers, and architects, to align migration solutions with BT's IT simplification strategy.
• Ensure on-time delivery of migration projects while identifying opportunities to reduce fallout, improve automation, and drive AI adoption.
• Implement structured ways of working, including sprint planning, backlog prioritisation, and governance frameworks to track migration success.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives, using data analytics and automation to enhance migration efficiency and scalability.
• Own budget management for assigned squads, ensuring effective utilisation of subcontractor resources.

Skills and Experience

Must Have:

• Strong knowledge of ETL pipelines and data transformation principles
• Experience with varied disciplines across design, development, testing, and data analytics.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with experience working with senior leadership and cross-functional teams.
• Strong problem-solving ability, with a data-driven approach
• Proven experience in leading engineering teams within large-scale data transformation or migration programmes.
• Financial and budget management experience, including cost control and resource planning.
• Experience with AI and automation tools for process optimisation.
• Understanding of telecoms IT architecture, including CRM, billing, and service platforms.

About us

BT Group was the world's first telco and our heritage in the sector is unrivalled. As home to several of the UK's most recognised and cherished brands - BT, EE, Openreach and Plusnet, we have always played a critical role in creating the future, and we have reached an inflection point in the transformation of our business.

Over the next two years, we will complete the UK's largest and most successful digital infrastructure project - connecting more than 25 million premises to full fibre broadband. Together with our heavy investment in 5G, we play a central role in revolutionising how people connect with each other.

While we are through the most capital-intensive phase of our fibre investment, meaning we can reward our shareholders for their commitment and patience, we are absolutely focused on how we organise ourselves in the best way to serve our customers in the years to come. This includes radical simplification of systems, structures, and processes on a huge scale. Together with our application of AI and technology, we are on a path to creating the UK's best telco, reimagining the customer experience and relationship with one of this country's biggest infrastructure companies.

Change on the scale we will all experience in the coming years is unprecedented. BT Group is committed to being the driving force behind improving connectivity for millions and there has never been a more exciting time to join a company and leadership team with the skills, experience, creativity, and passion to take this company into a new era.

Although these roles are listed as full-time, if you're a job share partnership, work reduced hours, or any other way of working flexibly, please still get in touch.

We will also offer reasonable adjustments for the selection process if required, so please do not hesitate to inform us.

Studies have shown that women and people who are disabled, LGBTQ+, neurodiverse or from ethnic minority backgrounds are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification and criteria. We're committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace where everyone can be their best, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every requirement on the Job Description, please apply anyway - you may just be the right candidate for this or other roles in our wider team.