What you’ll be doing
– your accountabilities
1. Design leadership for BT’s Core Routing Engine (CRE) platform and its interfaces to all other BT systems. Hold accountability for technical decision making, effectively assessing and introducing new technology as part of the planning portfolio from proof of concept to delivery
2. Manage the technical interface to the supplier, ensuring that all developments are delivered to the expected scope, cost and quality.
3. Technical leadership of CRE platform designs, and co-ordination with all Customer, Test, OSS, Security and Operational team stakeholders
4. Ensure that all e2e service and Operational concerns are fully taken into account in designs
5. Responsible for production of high and low level design documentation as appropriate including initial settings - prior to test entry quality gate as defined in delivery plan
6. Managing peer reviews and providing sign off authority on designs associated with CRE components within network platforms and/or customer solutions
7. Take technical lead in resolution of any significant CRE in-life service affecting issues
8. Lead the ongoing definition of the CRE platform roadmap, ensuring engagement with all stakeholders in Technology and Product Line.
9. Ensure that designs are progressed in line with Delivery plan, and any issues are flagged to the Delivery manager. Support resolution of any issues to keep delivery on track.
10. Highlight any design risks encountered. Manage resolution of risks.
11. Lead on Engineering Integrity and architecture conformance.
12. Mentor and share knowledge with others, offer expert advice and recommendations in your areas of subject expertise, and be an advanced user of design tools.
13. Provide technical expertise to inform contract and commercial management. Provide input to business cases and proposals for ways to avoid costs
You will also be responsible for
People
14. Lead a small matrix team across Design and Test to ensure they are trained and directed to design and test CRE related deliveries appropriately
Cost
15. Driving efficiency and cost reduction through defining Brilliant and Simple requirements to the supplier and other BT systems
Quality
16. Ensuring rigorous and highly available solutions to underpin the highly available requirements of SDIN/ORION and our VoIP services.
Delivery
17. Design and drive improved working processes, Operating outside of set designs and guidelines where necessary to find innovate solutions to optimise delivery of technical solution.
18. Application of Design best practise to domain, and interlock with design and delivery plans across all related systems and teams.
Skills required for the job
The CRE Specialist Network Designer will possess a good knowledge of voice networks including VoIP, Mobile networks and large Carrier networks. They will have a strong grasp of Switching and IP Networking, SIP signalling and DNS.
Other specifics for the role include thorough knowledge of
19. Voice Numbering standards and call routing strategies
20. Server configuration and management
21. Provisioning systems and associated interfaces e.g. REST API, SOAP XML
22. Titanium (ex NetNumber) TITAN platform, and the BT routing application running on it
23. Openstack private cloud platform and deployment of applications to it
You will also possess, or be in the process of developing, more general business skills
24. Stakeholder and Vendor Management – Ability to engage with
25. Stakeholders and Vendors at an appropriate level to ensure necessary business results can be attained.
26. Problem solving – Proven ability to solve complex problems in a controlled and systematic manner, analysing the available data to make the correct business decesions taking responsible risks when appropriate.
27. Coaching and Mentoring – Experience of coaching and mentoring others for peak performance
28. Financial Management – Understands overall cost to business for decisions made, has a good working knowledge of different types of budgets and inputs to business cases
29. Process improvement / Management – Works across teams to identify changes to processes and procedures to enable faster delivery or better business outcomes.
30. Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to bring teams together across BT to look at business issues ranging from feasibility through to issues affecting live service.
You will be a recognised expert in this field inside BT
Experience you would be expected to have
31. 3 years + experience of core voice network/platform design
32. 3 years+ experience of voice network/platform testing
33. Proven record of delivering projects to time, cost, quality requirements
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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