Network Design Specialist

**Job Title: Network Design Specialist**

**Location: Montreal, QC H3G 2W7**

**Duration: 12 months**

**Bilingual in both English & French is must**

**Description**:

- Creates and implements technical solutions for a domain or cross domains / portfolios of work within a specific technology area autonomously, understanding how solutions impact systems internally and/or externally and assessing impact of change.
- Provides technical quality assurance over work of other engineers through matrix team structure.
- Provides sound technical expertise to consult on significant component(s) of a technical solution within a specific domain or cross domain.
- Identifies opportunities to improve standards of practice within a project, continuously enhancing ways of working.
- Delivers resolutions to problems that tend to be complex, cross-domain or of high impact to customers.

**Purpose**:
The purpose of this role is to deliver the overall network design authority for a network platform and/or customer solution. Driving efficiency and scalability through the re-use of network designs and ongoing in-life operation of designs across the overall network platform and/or customer solution. Acting as a technical ambassador for the company and providing expert technical consulting to customers at a platform and/or overall solution level. The role decides on design scope 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. Provide design authority for significant component(s) of the overall solution and/or platform.

**What I’ll be doing - your accountabilities**:

- Provides technical concurrence and sign off for high profile and/or critical network changes on major BT core platforms and/or customer bids; accountable for managing technical risk for major platforms.
- Provides consultancy on network designs for multiple platforms and/or solutions and/or customers
- Develops design patterns across multiple domains.
- Responsible for establishing design best practice within a unit.
- Responsible for estimating the time and type of resource needed to support deliverables for complex, high impact and high value projects.
- Drives Right First Time solutions and leads lessons learned
- Proposes technical strategy to network platforms and/or customer solutions factoring in high impact and high risk as appropriate.
- Drives efficiency and scalability through the re-use of network designs and accountable for the design whilst it is deployed across the overall network platform and/or customer solution.
- Potentially leads a large matrix team (virtual) and is accountable for complex network development using innovative approaches to design (including cross-portfolio solutions). Leverages technical resource/s as required to deliver the solution.
- Decides on design scope and design to leading edge high impact and high risk network platforms and/or customer solutions
- Decides on the time and type of resource needed to support deliverables for complex, high impact and high value projects.
- Provide design authority for complex solutions and/or platform designs.
- Decides on network models for design testing.
- Decides on approach to resolving customer affected issues to leading edge high impact and high risk network platforms and/or customer solutions, as appropriate.
- Resolves in-life issues to high risk and high impact network platforms and/or customer solutions, as appropriate
- Decides how to re-use network designs.
- Decides on implementation approaches of technology related transformation activity.

**Skills required for the job**:

- May lead technical design output from level 1, 2, 3, or 4 designers and/or third party resources.
- May lead a large matrix team of technical experts.
- Ability to support multiple customer domains across one or more technologies
- Provides strong influence on senior stakeholders in terms of technical direction of platforms, which will influence commercial direction.
- Likely to lead on significant vendor selection for one or two domains.

**Qualifications, technical expertise or security clearance needed for the job**:

- Network Solutions:

- Strong understanding of IP Networking and it’s future direction
- CCNP/CCIE or equivalent desirable
- Strong understanding of software defined networking (SDN) including specialist in at least one key area (SD-WAN/NFV/SD Edge)
- Able to deliver significant stakeholder influence to resolve problems. Expected to give technical guidance to others to help resolve issues outside of the domain of the role.
- Provides thought leadership to senior internal stakeholders and customers regarding the overall future platform and/or customer solutions.
- Acts as a point of contact for technical expertise to advise senior stakeholders, internal and external.
- French and English fluent

**Experience you would be expected