Network Design Professional

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There are two things that we want to share with anyone considering joining us.

Firstly, we’ve got big ambitions for our colleagues and the future of the organisation. These include our vision that inclusion and accessibility drive every conversation we have and every decision we make. We want our workforce to fully represent the communities and customers we serve, because a diverse business is a better business. We value every colleague, their diversity and the contribution that they make. When we say you’re welcome at BT, we really mean it.

**About this role**

1 - **Customer partner** - You put the customer first, promoting the breadth of services. Looks to fully understand the customers’ needs and align relevant solutions.

2 - **Continuous improver** - You question current processes, trying to change and work smarter. You try new approaches or ideas, seeking to understand the benefits and opportunities that they offer.

4 - **Team player** - You navigate relationships openly and honestly. You share knowledge and information to directly benefit or support others.

**You'll have the following responsibilities**
- Provides technical concurrence and sign off for elements of designs and/or network changes on BT core platforms and/or customer bids; accountable for identifying technical risk for major platforms.
- Provides consultancy on network designs for platforms and/or solutions.
- Develops design patterns in own technical domain.
- Responsible for following and contributing to 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 in own area of expertise/domain
- Delivers Right First Time solutions.
- Proposes technical strategy to network platforms and/or customer solutions factoring in impact and 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 small matrix team (virtual) and is accountable for 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 network platforms and/or customer solutions
- Decides on the time and type of resource needed to support deliverables for complex projects.
- Provide design authority for complex solutions and/or platform designs in own area of expertise
- Decides on network models for design testing.
- Decides on approach to resolving customer affected issues to network platforms and/or customer solutions, as appropriate.
- Resolves in-life issues to network platforms and/or customer solutions, as appropriate
- Decides how to re-use network designs.
- Decides on implementation approaches of technology related transformation activity.

Provide detailed information on any qualifications, technical expertise or security clearance that you will need for the job. (See example statements below).
- **DYNS**:

- Strong understanding of IP Networking
- CCNA, CCNP, CCIE or equivalent desirable
- Good understanding of software defined networking (SDN), SDWAN
- Able to deliver stakeholder influence to resolve problems. Expected to give technical guidance to others to help resolve issues within the domain of the role.
- Provides technical leadership to internal stakeholders and customers regarding the platform and/or customer solutions.
- Acts as a point of contact for technical expertise to more junior designers or those outside of own domain

**You'll have the following skills & experience**
- Expert user of design tools; seeks opportunities to contribute to new design tools for BT, and for external adoption.
- Makes recommendations on design tools and processes for network platforms and/or customer solutions, where appropriate.
- Able to solve problems typically specific to complex components across the network platform and/or customer solutions.
- Able to solve known and complex/unknown problems that may lie outside the domain of the role.
- Resolve the majority of problems independently, however may seek guidance where there is interaction with other domains. May provide guidance to others in their area of domain expertise
- Impact of decisions are specific to the design scope and design for complex components of network platforms and/or customer solution.
- Evidence of successful transformation measures - e.g. change in processes, innovative designs.
- Mentors and share knowledge with others.

**About BT**

BT has a key role in British society, fostering change and leading technology innovation. From delivering the Olympics, to supporting the emergency services, to investing more into research than any othe