Working Style: Hybrid, 3 days a week from office and 2 days from home
We are seeking a Principal Solution Architect to act as BT Group's technical authority for Content Delivery Network (CDN) and Edge Compute capabilities across BT, EE and Plusnet broadband and mobile services.
This is a rare opportunity to shape the future of content distribution at one of the UK's largest network providers. As a senior individual contributor, you will define the strategy, roadmap and architecture for CDN and edge computing services, ensuring we maximise the value of our network infrastructure while creating innovative products and experiences for customers and partners.
Working across engineering, commercial and research teams, you'll identify new opportunities driven by changing media consumption, IP-based content delivery and emerging edge technologies. You'll translate market and technology trends into scalable solutions, helping to create new revenue streams, enhance customer experience and accelerate strategic transformation across the business.
As the overall design authority for CDN and Edge Compute, you'll lead the development of a pan-BT strategy that:
With demand for video streaming and digital content continuing to grow at scale, CDN capabilities are increasingly critical to delivering the high-quality experiences our customers expect. At the same time, the convergence of CDN and edge computing is creating exciting opportunities to deliver new services closer to users, unlock operational efficiencies and support emerging workloads, including AI at the network edge.
We're looking for someone who can do more than deliver established solutions. You'll bring deep technical expertise, commercial awareness and strategic thinking to define what we should build next, why it matters, and how we should bring it to market. Your thought leadership will help shape investment decisions, influence senior stakeholders and guide the future direction of content delivery across BT Group.
We're looking for a proven technology leader with deep expertise in CDN, content delivery and edge computing, alongside the ability to shape strategy, influence investment decisions and drive innovation at scale.
Tailored benefits make a real difference. That’s why we offer a comprehensive range to support your growth, wellbeing, and everyday life. You can design the package to suit you and your lifestyle. Your core benefits include:
You can select additional benefits, including healthcare, dental, gym memberships and more when you’re ready.
BT Group is the UK’s leading communications group and the holding company behind some of the country’s most recognised brands – including BT, EE, Openreach and Plusnet. Our purpose is as simple as it is ambitious: we connect for good. Our customers include consumers, small, medium and large businesses, public sector organisations and other communications providers.
BT Group’s role is about setting direction, unlocking value and creating the conditions for our brands and businesses to thrive.
Having come through the most capital-intensive phase of our fibre investment, our focus now is on what comes next – simplifying how we operate, using technology and AI to work smarter, and organising ourselves to serve customers better and grow sustainably. Group teams shape strategy, policy, brand, capital allocation and transformation, helping the whole organisation perform at its best.
We have a singular culture that unites all our people: we are customer-first challengers, who are committed, clear and connected. These behaviours unite us as one team to deliver for our colleagues, our customers, our stakeholders and the country. Joining BT Group means working at the heart of a business that matters to the UK, with the opportunity to shape decisions, influence outcomes and help set the future course of one of the country’s most important companies.
We’re one of the world’s leading communications services companies. At BT Group, the solutions we sell are integral to modern life. Our purpose is as simple as it is ambitious: we connect for good.
There are no limits to what people can do when they connect. And as technology changes our world, connections are becoming even more important to everyday life.
Today, that’s truer than ever. The connections we make are helping solve the world’s biggest challenges such as the global pandemic, climate change and cyber security. Through the power of technology, we’re supporting customers to live, work and play together better.
