Recruiter: Daniel McCarthy
Career Grade: C
Internal Closing Date: 24/1/25
About us
BT is part of BT Group, along with EE, Openreach, and Plusnet.
Millions of people rely on us every day to help them live their lives, power their businesses, and keep their public services running. We connect friends to family, clients to colleagues, people to possibilities. We keep the wheels of business spinning, and the emergency services responding.
We value diversity and celebrate difference. ‘We embed diversity and inclusion into everything that we do. It’s fundamental to our purpose: we connect for good.’
We all stick to the same values: Personal, Simple, and Brilliant. From day one, you’ll get stuck in to tough challenges, pitch in with ideas, make things happen. But you won’t be alone: we’ll be there with help and support, learning and development.
This is your chance to make a real difference to the world: to be part of the digital transformation of countless lives and businesses. Grab it.
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. Technology is BT’s powerhouse, with our expert technologists, we have a unique position in BT. By bringing together our technical and commercial expertise, and 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.
Why this job matters
This Principal Designer is accountable for the technical and functional leadership of the technical domain in the Mobile IP Core team. Plays key role in maintaining EE/BT’s industry leading position in network reliability and performance. Applies specialist expertise to deliver technical work that is typically unique, complex and high impact, requiring both breadth and depth of domain knowledge. Drives efficiency and scalability through the re-use of network designs and accountable for the design whilst it is deployed in the network. Provides technical concurrence and sign off for high profile and/or critical network changes on major BT core platforms and/or customer bids.
What I’ll be doing – your accountabilities
* Provide technical leadership across the domain, establish design best practice.
* Oversee design activities across the domain to ensure component designs integrate and interoperate cohesively and that current activities align with strategic network evolution goals.
* Analyse and inform technical projects, ensuring planned deliveries are achievable, that they call on the most appropriate technical options available and are effectively managing risks and issues.
* maintain a portfolio of 12-24 month improvement activities that will inform the budgetary and workstack management cycles.
* Using a mixture of deep domain specific technical knowledge, substantial experience of successful delivery and generic analytical/logical skills, coach more junior members of the team and play a formative role in their development.
* Advise line managers on all technical aspects of project resourcing, individual team member development and feedback on staff and team.
* Coordinate the portfolio of activities across the technical domain to optimise overall delivery plans.
* Provide design authority for complex solutions.
* Manage technical risk for key platforms.
* Share knowledge and thought leadership to advance the team’s thinking, guide technical decisions and provide strategic level recommendations.
Skills required for the job
* In depth technical expertise in fixed/mobile telecommunications industry with business critical, high availability and high throughput systems and networks.
* In depth knowledge of IP routing and switching technologies.
* In depth knowledge of mobile network architecture and IP transport solutions for securely connecting mobile core network elements and service platforms.
* In depth knowledge of Quality of Service and OAM mechanisms in packet switched data networks.
* Evidence of strong mentoring and coaching skills. Evidence of driving the technical development of a team in a rapidly changing market place.
* Ability to manage vendors to ensure timely and cost-effective delivery of solutions.
* Good communication skills with internal and external teams/customers, including the ability to articulate ideas in basic financial terms.
* Knowledge of IP/MPLS technologies.
* Knowledge of data centre networking and network virtualisation.
* An appreciation of fixed broadband and voice network architectures and associated technologies.
* Knowledge of evolving industry trends, best practice and customer requirements in the telecoms arena.
* Knowledge of current and potential future routing and switching platforms.
Experience you would be expected to have
* Design expertise in IP/MPLS/mobile technologies and complex design solutions in network technology domain. Recognised for technology design leadership.
* Identifying risks, balancing the threats and opportunities associated with the risks. Taking appropriate mitigating action against the risk and tracking and managing risks over their lifetime.
A FEW POINTS TO NOTE:
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.
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