Onshore Assessment Lead

Tata Consultancy Services; Toronto; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Tata Consultancy Services Canada Inc. is seeking a senior advisor to lead engagement mobilization, discovery workshops, and assessments across telecom and network testing domains.

You will translate technical findings into business impact, drive transformation roadmaps, and manage governance and dependencies. The role requires extensive experience in consulting within telecom/networks, strong stakeholder management, and proficiency in Python automation and CI/CD tools.

Qualifications

• Experience leading current-state assessments, gap analysis and roadmaps.
• Strong knowledge of telecom network testing and lab operations.
• Experience facilitating workshops with stakeholders and executives.

Responsibilities

• Lead engagement mobilization, including charter, RACI, governance and scope.
• Facilitate discovery workshops with lab owners, test leads and SMEs across IP, Optical, Voice and network testing.
• Assess automation maturity, identify pain points and improvement opportunities.
• Review maturity assessments, bottleneck analysis and transformation roadmaps.
• Present findings to leadership and define phased priorities.

Skills

Consulting experience

Telecom/network engineering

Test strategy

Transformation

Assessment

Automation advisory

Workshop facilitation

Stakeholder management

Executive communication

Presentation skills

Tools

Cisco pyATS

Robot Framework

Python automation

CI/CD

Version control

Job description

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is an equal opportunity employer, and embraces diversity in race, nationality, ethnicity, gender, age, physical ability, neurodiversity, and sexual orientation, to create a workforce that reflects the societies we operate in. Our continued commitment to Culture and Diversity is reflected in our people stories across our workforce and implemented through equitable workplace policies and processes.

Tata Consultancy Services (BSE: 532540, NSE: TCS) is the technology partner of choice for industry-leading organizations worldwide. Since its inception in 1968, TCS has upheld the highest standards of innovation, engineering excellence and customer service.

It has set an aspiration to become the world's largest AI-led technology services company and is enabling its clients to transform themselves across the full AI stack, from infrastructure to intelligence.

Rooted in the heritage of the Tata Group, TCS is focused on creating long term value for its clients, its investors, its employees, and the community at large. With a highly skilled workforce spread across 56 countries and 194 service delivery centers across the world, the company has been recognized as a top employer in six continents. With the ability to rapidly apply and scale new technologies, the company has built long term partnerships with its clients. Many of these relationships have endured into decades and navigated every technology cycle, from mainframes in the 1970s to artificial intelligence today.

Required skill set

"Skills and Responsibilities:"

"Must-Have Skills:"

• Good years in consulting, telecom/network engineering, test strategy, transformation, assessment, or automation advisory.
• Strong experience leading current-state assessments, gap analysis, business cases, and roadmap engagements.
• Knowledge of telecom network testing, lab operations, regression testing, service validation, and test automation.
• Strong workshop facilitation, stakeholder management, executive communication, and presentation skills.
• Experience managing multi-location teams, delivery risks, dependencies, and scope.

Nice-to-Have Skills:

• Exposure to Cisco IOS XR/XE, Juniper Junos, Nokia MDCLI, Ciena 6500, Nokia 1830, Spirent, or EXFO.
• Familiarity with Cisco pyATS, Robot Framework, Python automation, CI/CD, and version control.
• Experience with telecom operators, automation maturity models, Lean Business Cases, and value-versus-effort prioritization.
• Relevant networking, automation, architecture, consulting, or project management certification.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead engagement mobilization, including charter, RACI, stakeholder mapping, governance, escalation paths, and assessment scope.
• Facilitate discovery workshops and interviews with lab owners, test leads, and SMEs across IP, Optical, Voice, and network testing domains.
• Assess current automation maturity, operational pain points, constraints, coverage gaps, technical debt, and improvement opportunities.
• Review test cases, runbooks, execution logs, release calendars, tooling inventories, and related technical inputs.
• Translate technical findings into business impact, benefit hypotheses, and executive-ready recommendations.
• Review maturity assessments, bottleneck analysis, automation candidate prioritization, Lean Business Case inputs, and transformation roadmaps.
• Manage governance, risks, dependencies, decisions, stakeholder alignment, and scope throughout the assessment.
• Present findings to leadership, identify quick wins, define phased priorities, and support transition to future execution programs."

Salary Range - CA$ 100,000 - CA$ 120,000 Per Year

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