End-To-End Solution Design, Network Design Specialist

Job Details

Job title

 End-To-End Solution Design, Network Design Specialist

Reports to (job)

Senior Manager, Radio & Satcoms Platform

Business Unit

Radio & Satcoms Platform, Fixed Networks

Team

Radio & Satcoms Delivery team

Location

Adastral Park, Ipswich

Job Dimensions

End to end solution design and network integration of radio systems into BT Core and Access Networks.

Hours

Full time

Direct Reports

N/A

Career Level

D

Why BT?

We’ve always been an organisation with purpose; to use the power of communications to make a better world. You can trace this back to our beginning as pioneers of the world’s first telecommunications company. At our heart we’re a technology company with research and innovation in our bones and a desire to be personal, simple, and brilliant for our customers - those are the values we live by whilst also creating an inclusive working environment where people from all backgrounds can succeed.

Our pursuit of progress over the past 180 years has established BT as a strong, successful brand, with huge scale capable of achieving great things. From supporting emergency services, hospitals, banks and keeping economies around the world online, safe and secure, to delivering large scale technology infrastructure.

Today in this fast changing, always on, digital world our purpose remains true. Yet the market conditions, regulation and competition we face are tougher than ever before. So if you have the drive, optimism and resilience to help propel us forward we’ll offer unrivalled personal development, a wealth of opportunities to learn, experience new things and pursue new careers. If that’s you and what you’re looking for, we’d love you to be part of our future.

Why Business Unit/Function

We are in an incredibly competitive industry and it’s not just the technology that’s important, but the world of promise it creates for our customers. We live and work in a connected world where people want seamless service, great products and the best connectivity there is, as well as continually expecting more and more from us, and rightly so.

The Radio and Satellite Platform houses expert technologists, with a unique position in BT, by bringing together our technical and commercial expertise, our insight and passion for customer experience, we help BT stand out from the competition. With the best networks and smart innovative products, combined with a personal experience, it sets us apart from the pack.

Innovation drives everything we’ve done since BT started in 1846. Coming up with new ideas and developing new technologies is central to our future. We want to improve people’s lives for the better in welcome, relevant and affordable ways and we’ll be fast to market with an effortless experience to match.  We will continue to focus on developing our converged network capabilities which will give customers seamless connectivity. Our skilled people will lead this technological revolution, not only for our customers but for the industry across the Globe, truly making customers our heartbeat.

In Specialist Platforms, we’re creating an inclusive working environment where people from all backgrounds can succeed. We value different perspectives, skills and experiences. We’re happy to consider ways of working that will mean you can perform at your best.

Why this job matters

Specialist Platforms provide unique and specialist solutions to some of the industries more complex connectivity issues across the UK and wider Global communities.

Within the Radio and Satcoms platform, our role is to support the availability and security of the network 24/7/365 combining operational and engineering resources to meet the customer demand. In your role as an

End-to-End Solution Designer you’ll work with key stakeholders and partners to identify how we could meet our customer’s needs, creating a solution, providing specialist advice and assisting the field engineering teams in delivering for our customers.

In this role you’ll play a key part in shaping, designing, managing and maintaining the UK key infrastructure, supporting major projects, Government and Critical National Infrastructure.

What I’ll be doing – your accountabilities

Skills required for the job

·        Setting the strategy for the use of Radio across BT, influencing Regulatory and Standards bodies to meet BT’s business needs

·        Defines and sets all Operational policies covering the use of Radio technologies across BT Group.

·        Key contributor into business cases. Technical expert during vendor conversations.

·        Providing advice and guidance to the Network design authority for a complex technology in a challenging regulatory environment.

·        Design scoping and design of the overall network platform and/or customer solution, as well as estimating the time and type of resource needed to support the deliverables with increasing cost impact and time duration.

·        Definition, handling and managing all the regulatory, spectrum and safety aspects of Radio technologies. This includes any action under the Wireless Telegraphy Act (Prosecution/defence) and defining setting/policy with OFCOM

·        Technical ambassador for the company facing outwards to both customers and vendors. Providing expert technical consulting to customers at a platform and/or overall solution level.

·        Work with colleagues in delivery teams to define the resources and time required for projects/tasks.

·        Detailed understanding of the radio environment, current and proposed designs, the customer requirements which inform these designs, and the end-to-end service wrap.

·        Knowledge and experience of Antennas and RF Propagation

·        Knowledge and experience of Modulation methodologies.

·        Knowledge and experience of IP Connectivity, Network Fundamentals and Security.

·        Knowledge and Experience of OSS Design, Network Integration and solution testing.

·        Recognised as an expert in the relevant technologies, and an active contributor to best practice in the wider community.

·        Detailed knowledge of Ofcom rules on use of radio spectrum to ensure BT maintains compliance.

·        Externally recognised expert in all the regulatory spectrum and safety aspects of radio technologies

·        Ability to work with Ofcom on both a technical and legal basis

·        Leading a matrix (virtual) team of technical experts to deliver network design solutions and provide technical thought leadership to a larger matrix team. The sphere of influence for the matrix team will be from a technical perspective.

Our Leadership Standards

Experience you would be expected to have

·        Leading inclusively and safely, Owning outcomes

·        Delivering for the customer, commercially savvy

·        Growth mindset, Building for the future

Leadership Standards

·        BSc in an Engineering discipline (Physics or Electrical/Electronics Engineering).

·        Experience in design, build and configuration of point-to-point microwave links (3+ years)

·        Successful delivery of a range of small to large programmes would be desirable

·        Ability to collate and analyse data and translate into Reporting insights

·        Working with senior stakeholder managing conflicts in delivering enablement solutions in a timely manner at optimum cost.

·        Working with internal and external partners to deliver to quality and on time expectation.

·        Experience and proficient in Microsoft office packages

·        Implemented change initiatives, ability to adapt quickly and deliver change effectively. 

·        Systems experience including JIRA & Ariba.

Compliance and ethic statement

Role models and leads team in line with The BT Way operating model, ethics code and our policies outlined here

Carries out regular risk reviews and assessments and operates controls effectively.