Network Solutions Director

• Network Technology Solutions Director
• £90,000 - £110,000
• Bonus – 20%
• Private healthcare
• Hybrid working: Remote/visits to Peterborough office

Our client are start up gigabit fast full fibre broadband company who are currently going through an exciting period of growth.

They are currently seeking an experienced Network Technology Solutions Director to join their business.

As a complete business support partner service, and working with other functions across the business, the Network Technology Solutions Director shall lead a team of subject matter experts in its efforts to deliver innovation, design, development and costing of Network Technology solutions through their whole lifecycle, and for Network Technology solution design during a whole project’s/initiative’s lifecycle.

This includes delivering business solution options, estimates (Rough Order of Magnitude), detailed design proposals and estimates, High Level Design (HLD) production, Low Level Design (LLD) assurance and sign off, anticipated project Network Technology solution implementation timelines, and participating on key Network Technology architecture initiatives. The Network Technology team will be a combination of direct reports, and potentially as projects and business needs grow contracting team members

Responsibilities:

• Reporting directly to the Chief Technology and Information Officer, lead and develop a high performing Network Technology Solutions team through clear vision, coaching and support.
• Plays a key part in delivery of large, complex strategic programmes that cut across different business areas and brands.
• Responsible for the Network Technology Solutions team, which will be accountable for definingand present technical recommendations for specific business objectives and key requirements, where all outputs shall be aligned to strategic business needs, the business plan, their architectural roadmap and objectives.
• Ensures that Network Technology Solutions not only meet the functional objectives but also meet operational requirements such as scalability, security, extensibility, flexibility and manageability.
• Ensures the Network Technology Solutions team gains and maintains knowledge of the business needs, strategic goals, objectives, and functional areas across, attaining value for money, identifying savings made whilst providing technical solutions for commercial requirements that facilitates sales and marketing efforts.
• Working collaboratively with the Project Management Office (PMO), OSS/BSS/UX, and IT teams in the preparation of solution pricing, documentation and solution design.
• Estimate / Coordinate the consolidation of Rough Order of Magnitude (ROM) costs, deliverables and scope for Network Technology solutions, and application activities.
• Documents ROM costs, deliverables, scope, assumptions, risks and issues using PMO standard documentation and processes.
• Ensures the Network Technology Solutions team is cognisant that its solutions always meet business stability, network data integrity, infrastructure stability, network security, and maintainability.
• Responsible for identifying ‘proactively’ innovative technology solutions, that meet businessneeds that removes obstacles for the business.

Personal Qualities:

• Maintains a dotted line support partner function directly to the Chief Delivery Officer (CDO), to ensure that Network Technology solutions, and the Network Passive Architecture build function act as a single delivery unit to meet business needs.
• Ability to establish, and interact with structures, multi-functional areas, processes, and standards.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to interact effectively with people at all levels, i.e., converting the complex to simple at all levels.
• Ability to work effectively within a wider team, and across business functions.
• Ability to prioritise, meet deadlines and work under pressure.
• Ability to work under own initiative, following ‘intent’ based leadership direction.
• Self-motivated, driven.
• Having a ‘one-team-one-goal’ working ethos.
• Displays excellent technical and interpersonal leadership qualities
• Proven problem-solving capability, displaying a tenacious desire to get to the bottom of issues
• Inspires confidence, both in their customers and in colleagues within the technology function
• Completer/finisher.

Skills & Qualifications:

• Proven track record experience in designing and monitoring varied network technologies and delivering solutions to solve business requirements and concerns.
• Line management and people management experience, including with teams based in different locations.
• Strong experience of managing teams to design and deliver large, and small scale change programmes.
• Proven track record of proposing and estimating network technology solutions.
• Understanding business objectives / requirements and translating into solutions.
• Co-ordinating multiple streams of work.
• Strong Stakeholder management experience.
• Risk management exposure, including incorporating risk mitigations into network technology solutions.
• Proven track record of costs estimation experience, including development, test and integration costs.
• Degree level qualified in Telecommunications, Optical Networking, or similar.
• Industry qualifications or equivalent professional training.
• Seasoned telecommunications industry, and/or enterprise architecture background.

For more information on this role, please contact Scarlet Wilson.