Lead Specialist, Mobile Data Engineering (Networks)
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Make an Impact:
1. Mobile Data Engineering Planning
- Lead end‑to‑end planning for mobile data platforms across 4G and 5G environments, including mobile core, packet core, service assurance, probe, analytics, data feeds, and observability platforms.
- Own the planning roadmap for 4G VNF and 5G CNF domains, ensuring scalability, resiliency, lifecycle readiness, capacity sufficiency, and alignment with business, technology, and operational priorities.
- Provide domain expertise across 4G EPC, 5G Core, control plane, user plane, roaming, VoLTE, VoNR, IoT, 5G slicing, xDR, session tracing, performance analytics, and end‑to‑end service correlation.
- Define architecture, capacity, interface, integration, monitoring, and performance requirements for new mobile data capabilities and platform enhancements.
- Ensure engineering plans support business growth, customer experience, operational efficiency, automation, security, and cost optimization.
2. End-to-End Architecture and Technical Ownership
- Lead end‑to‑end solution planning across mobile core, IP transport, data centre, cloud infrastructure, virtualization, container platforms, monitoring, orchestration, and operational support systems.
- Ensure complete E2E setup readiness, including IP design, routing, firewall requirements, DNS, load balancing, connectivity, security zones, platform onboarding, operational access, monitoring, logging, backup, and disaster recovery considerations.
- Provide technical leadership for cloud‑native and virtualized environments, including 5G CNF and 4G VNF architecture, platform dependencies, lifecycle management, resource planning, software upgrades, and vendor roadmap alignment.
- Drive readiness of environments for deployment, testing, integration, commissioning, production acceptance, and operational handover.
- Serve as the technical planning authority for mobile data use cases that span network, IT, cloud, security, automation, analytics, and business teams.
3. DevOps, GitLab and Automation
- Lead the adoption of DevOps practices for mobile data engineering, including GitLab‑based source control, CI/CD pipelines, configuration management, change traceability, automated testing, and controlled deployment workflows.
- Drive automation initiatives to improve delivery speed, configuration consistency, service assurance, operational efficiency, and incident response.
- Promote infrastructure‑as‑code, pipeline‑driven deployment, repeatable testing, automated validation, and standardised rollback practices where applicable.
- Work with engineering, operations, vendors, and platform teams to industrialise automation for 4G VNF and 5G CNF deployment, upgrade, monitoring, and lifecycle activities.
- Ensure DevOps and automation practices comply with security, governance, change management, and production control requirements.
4. LMP, Platform and Lifecycle Management
- Provide planning and domain leadership for LMP‑related capabilities, platform onboarding, lifecycle management, orchestration, inventory, performance, and operational readiness.
- Manage technology lifecycle planning for mobile data platforms, including hardware, software, licences, capacity, support contracts, end‑of‑life, end‑of‑support, refresh, migration, and decommissioning.
- Maintain forward‑looking platform roadmaps aligned with business demand, vendor evolution, 5G standalone development, cloud‑native transformation, and operational requirements.
- Identify technical risks, obsolescence risks, security risks, capacity constraints, and cost pressures, and develop mitigation plans.
5. CAPEX, OPEX and P&L Accountability
- Manage P&L accountability for assigned Mobile Data Engineering platforms, including CAPEX and OPEX planning, forecasting, tracking, optimisation, and reporting.
- Develop business cases, investment papers, budget submissions, procurement justifications, cost models, and financial impact assessments for new platforms, capacity expansions, renewals, upgrades, and transformation initiatives.
- Track and manage vendor costs, maintenance charges, software licences, cloud or infrastructure consumption, support services, professional services, hardware refresh, and project delivery costs.
- Optimise total cost of ownership through platform consolidation, automation, capacity efficiency, vendor negotiation, lifecycle planning, and operational simplification.
- Ensure spending aligns with approved budgets, business priorities, governance requirements, and measurable value delivery.
6. Business Use Case Leadership
- Lead conversations with business, product, commercial, enterprise, network, IT, security, finance, and operations stakeholders to convert business ideas into practical mobile data use cases.
- Translate business opportunities into technical requirements, solution options, cost estimates, implementation plans, KPIs, delivery milestones, and operational acceptance criteria.
- Assess feasibility, financial impact, security impact, customer experience impact, operational complexity, and delivery risk for proposed business use cases.
- Drive use cases from ideation through planning, business case approval, design, delivery, testing, launch, and post‑launch benefit tracking.
- Act as the bridge between business ambition and network/platform realisation, ensuring solutions are technically sound, financially justified, secure, and operationally sustainable.
7. Security, Risk and Compliance
- Apply security‑by‑design principles across mobile data planning and delivery, including confidentiality, integrity, availability, accountability, authentication, authorisation, least privilege, secure access, network segmentation, and data protection.
- Ensure mobile data solutions comply with internal security policies, change management processes, vulnerability management requirements, regulatory obligations, and operational governance.
- Lead security assessment planning for new platforms and major changes, including vulnerability assessment, penetration testing coordination, risk review, remediation tracking, and secure production rollout.
- Ensure proper management of privileged access, system accounts, logs, audit trails, asset inventory, software licences, patching, backup, restoration, and secure disposal where applicable.
- Work closely with cybersecurity, network security, architecture, operations, vendors, and governance teams to manage risks and ensure secure implementation.
8. Project and Program Management
- Lead complex mobile data engineering projects from planning to delivery, including scope definition, budget planning, solution design, procurement, vendor engagement, implementation, testing, commissioning, acceptance, documentation, and handover.
- Manage project schedules, dependencies, risks, issues, resources, financials, governance forums, and executive reporting.
- Ensure project delivery follows agreed scope, timeline, budget, quality, change management, security, and operational acceptance requirements.
- Lead cross‑functional project teams across network engineering, operations, IP, cloud, IT, cybersecurity, finance, procurement, vendors, and business units.
- Drive timely decision‑making, issue resolution, escalation management, and stakeholder alignment.
9. Stakeholder and Vendor Management
- Act as a senior technical and planning interface for internal stakeholders, vendors, suppliers, and delivery partners.
- Manage vendor performance, roadmap alignment, solution compliance, commercial discussions, technical escalations, support quality, and delivery commitments.
- Influence stakeholders across business and technology teams to align priorities, resolve conflicts, and deliver outcomes.
- Prepare and present technical papers, investment proposals, architecture options, risk assessments, financial summaries, project updates, and management recommendations.
- Build trusted relationships with stakeholders by combining strong technical credibility, financial discipline, business understanding, and clear communication.
Skills for Success:
- Degree in Telecommunications, Electrical/Electronic Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or related discipline.
- 10 or more years of experience in mobile network planning, mobile data engineering, packet core, mobile core, service assurance, cloud‑native telecom platforms, or telecom infrastructure delivery.
- Strong domain knowledge in both 4G and 5G mobile data environments, including 4G VNF and 5G CNF architecture.
- Experience in mobile core, packet core, EPC, 5GC, control plane, user plane, roaming, VoLTE, VoNR, IoT, slicing, probes, analytics, xDR, KPI monitoring, and service assurance.
- Strong understanding of end‑to‑end telecom setup, including IP networking, routing, DNS, firewall, load balancer, data centre, cloud platform, virtualization, containers, orchestration, monitoring, and operational support.
- Experience with GitLab, DevOps practices, CI/CD, automation, scripting, configuration management, and controlled software delivery processes.
- Experience managing CAPEX, OPEX, budget planning, cost tracking, procurement support, business cases, and financial governance.
- Strong project management experience, preferably with exposure to large‑scale telecom platform delivery, vendor management, change management, and operational handover.
- Good security knowledge across telecom networks, cloud‑native platforms, access control, vulnerability management, patching, logging, network segmentation, secure change, and production risk management.