BT Group
Principal Solution Architect, IPTV
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Job Title: Principal Solution Architect, IPTV
Req ID: 60371
Job Function: Architecture Solution and Design
Posting Start Date: 04/08/2026
Posting End Date: 12/08/2026
Division: Networks
Job Location: GBR-London-BTHQ One Braham
Advertised Salary: Competitive with Benefits
Recruiter: Molly Lees
Locations: Birmingham, London, Belfast, Bristol
Closing Date: 12th August 2026
About The Role
TV plays a critical role supporting our consumer broadband services, giving customers more reasons to join and to remain with BT and EE for their home connectivity, and more. The TV Technology team, in our Networks business unit, build and deliver the innovative capabilities of our EE TV and BT TV services, including our devices (including Set Top Boxes), apps, and on-demand and live TV delivery over BT’s brilliant fibre broadband network, and beyond.
This senior role is part of the TV leadership team and brings a breadth of experience and understanding that ensures we use technology effectively to support our TV ambitions; delivering experiences that delight our customers, with business benefits that support BT’s future growth. You will complement the brilliant expertise in our platform, content distribution, device, and client teams, with your innovative, future-thinking approach that is rooted in your deep experience of delivering brilliant customer experiences of video content at scale over the internet or broadband networks – to enable us to offer our TV customers the broadest choice of content, and the most compelling experiences to discover and engage with it.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Lead the design and delivery of end to end solution architecture for our TV services, with broad subject matter expertise in OTT/IPTV video, to ensure scalable, secure, reliable and business-aligned outcomes.
- Partner with product, engineering, and operational stakeholders to help translate business needs into clear architectural approaches, identifying risks, dependencies, trade offs and ensuring successful delivery.
- Provide technical leadership and thought leadership across the organisation, influencing stakeholders and shaping the long term direction of our IPTV architecture and emerging capabilities.
- Lead and contribute to complex, cross organisational initiatives, ensuring architecture supports BT’s commercial objectives, innovation agenda and transformation goals.
- Define and evolve architecture standards, patterns and roadmaps for TV through collaboration with other architects and experts, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture guardrails, regulatory requirements and long term strategy.
- Drive continuous improvement in architecture practices, delivery approaches and tooling, including adoption of modern cloud native, DevOps and platform evolution techniques.
- Mentor and coach architects and engineers, building capability, consistency and knowledge sharing across the community, while acting as a design authority for key decisions.
- Enable innovation through prototyping, experimentation and external engagement, ensuring BT remains competitive in an evolving TV ecosystem (including aggregation, AI, new service models and more).
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Essential Skills / Experience
- Extensive breadth and depth of experience of the architecture and technology for online consumer IPTV and OTT services at scale, including user experience, applications, middleware, hardware, content distribution, metadata, and platform expertise.
- Proven clear communication and engagement with stakeholders across business, commercial, product, partner, supplier, and technology experts, at all levels.
- Transformative thinking, including strong familiarity with public and private cloud, microservice architectures, AI, and DevSecOps approaches.
Desirable Skills / Experience
- Broad architectural experience and knowledge across multiple domains.
- Familiarity with competitors, suppliers, and other TV industry players.
- Understanding of regulatory, and contractual content licensing constraints and implications.
- Experience of telco IPTV or broadcast TV platforms, and UK DTT delivery.
- Active participation in relevant industry bodies and initiatives, and of speaking at events.
- Demonstrable experimentation and practical application of AI and other emerging technologies.
- Evidence of transformational approaches, innovation, experimentation, and influencing other experts.
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Our Package
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:
- 10% on target annual bonus
- Access to an online private GP 24/7 for you and your immediate family
- Market-leading paid carers leave with up to 2 weeks off
- Equalized maternity, paternity, and adoption leave – 18 weeks’ full pay and 8 weeks’ half pay
- Discounted EE and BT products, including mobile and broadband
- Market leading Pension scheme – 5% from you and 10% from us
- Holiday purchase scheme
You can select additional benefits, including healthcare, dental, gym memberships and more when you’re ready. Ready to connect for good and help shape the future? Apply now.
At BT International, our purpose is to keep the world connected. As part of BT, we build on almost 180 years of innovation and expertise to deliver secure connectivity and digital services to some of the world’s leading multinational businesses and organisations. Our customers trust us to safeguard their data, drive their digital transformation and keep their businesses running. With colleagues on the ground across the world and supporting customers wherever they need to operate, BT International offers a truly global experience. Whether it’s about providing cloud connectivity, helping organisations collaborate, or enabling innovation in cybersecurity and digital services, you’ll be part of a team that shapes how businesses succeed in a world that is being transformed by AI. If you have the drive and ambition to make an impact on a global stage, BT International is where it happens.
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