Solution Design Authority - Newbury, United Kingdom - Vodafone

Vodafone

Verified Company

Newbury, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Description:

Location:
Blended

Salary:
Competitive

Hours: 37.5

Role purpose:

A senior customer facing role and owner of the low-level customer solution.

Responsible for providing technical leadership and support to a virtual team of highly skilled professionals and for detailed customer design, development, delivery and test of complex WAN solutions.

To be engaged during the latter stages of the pre-sales cycle to provide technical assurance on complex solution viability and then ensure detailed solution compliance throughout delivery, only exiting once the solution is accepted into operation by the customer services organisation and warranty support period expired

What will you be doing?

Technical accountability and leadership of the virtual team responsible for the detailed design, development, delivery, and test of multimillionpound complex customer solutions working alongside the Programme Manager providing assurance and governance for technical components of the solution.
Low level discovery of existing solution components and owner of the transition from existing to proposed solution
Sign off and acceptance of presales High Level Design and statement of requirements on behalf of the Solution Integration team
Owner of the Solution Integration statement of work which translates the highlevel design and requirements into detailed technical deliverables, identifying the risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies for submission into the Programme risk register
Technical risk/issue ownership and management/resolution during solution delivery.
Operate the Solution Integration governance processes and to hold internal and external technical teams to account.

Who are we looking for?

Highly effective technical planning across customer, internal and 3rd Party technical teams
Builds influential and effective relationships with technical, service and delivery teams
Effective management of internal and external teams
Significant experience of fixed product market, in depth understanding of complex customer WAN and LAN solutions with awareness of other enterprise solutions such as UC and Contact Centre
Proven track record for delivery of large scale, complex projects delivering IT/Telco customer solutions; demonstrable leadership skills and organisational experience
High standard of written & verbal communication skills

Recommended technical skills/professional qualifications.

CCNA
CCNP Enterprise
In depth knowledge of IP Networking
Knowledge of WAN network elements and products.
Knowledge of SD-WAN
Knowledge of Cisco ASA and other firewall platforms.

Microsoft products

Excel is essential.

What's in it for you?

An excellent remuneration and bonus package with 28 days holiday entitlement, in addition to bank holidays and paid leave for charity projects.

We offer an extensive and flexible benefits package that can be tailored to suit you and your family. We're proud to provide a Reconnect programme with flexibility for individuals returning to work after a career break.

From our market-leading parental leave policies through to employee discounts, retail vouchers, pension plan and share schemes we are committed to supporting you throughout your career with Vodafone.

Together we can
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