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Date: Sep 17, 2024

Location: Snowhill, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Company: BT Group

Recruiter: Daniel McCarthy

Career Grade: E

Internal Closing Date: 1st October

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.

What you’ll be doing – your accountabilities

As a Network Design Specialist you will be accountable for

• Carrying out feasibility and rapid impacts assessments and inputting to business cases.

• Deciding on design scope of the overall network platform and/or customer solution including high and low level designs

• Designing, validating & testing (DVT) innovative and architecturally aligned network solutions that meet business requirements

• Ensuring security capabilities are built in from the outset

• Providing technical guidance to Platforms, OSS teams, Test, Delivery and Operations to ensure smooth delivery of changes to Live.

• Acting as point of contact for technical expertise to project senior stakeholders, both internal and customers.

• A mentor and share knowledge with others, and be an advanced user of design tools.

• Encouraging network designers to identify opportunities to follow design best practice.

• Proposing technical strategy for network platforms in conjunction with platform managers

• Engaging with suppliers to ensure technical capabilities meet BT needs

The skills you’ll need to succeed

• Deep knowledge of Network design principles and practice

• Knowledge of Optical, Ethernet and Mobile Backhaul Technologies, IP and VPN

• In-Life problem resolution and performance

• Be inquisitive and challenging

• Practicing/emerging Dev Ops Engineer who understands software and network combinations to a practitioner level

• Educated to degree level or equivalent in engineering, member of a relevant professional institution (e.g. IET

Experience you’d be expected to have

• Accomplished and experienced network designer

• successful track record of leading complex design deliveries, including initial feasibilities and prof of concepts

• Delivering on time and to budget

• Have led teams through significant change and developed an innovative, challenging and supportive team culture

• Knowledge of the commercial market place, including technical innovations which could be used to drive market growth and revenue

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.

DON'T MEET EVERY SINGLE REQUIREMENT?

Studies have shown that women and people who are disabled, LGBTQ+, neurodiverse or from ethnic minority backgrounds are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification and criteria. We're committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace where everyone can be their best, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every requirement on the Job Description, please apply anyway - you may just be the right candidate for this or other roles in our wider team.