European WAN Program Manager for Hyperscale Networking

Nscale; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Nscale is seeking a Technical Program Manager – WAN to lead planning, coordination, and delivery of the company’s wide-area network across Europe. You’ll ensure backbone, interconnects, and new site connectivity are delivered on time, at scale, and with high reliability.

You’ll work within the Deployment organisation, coordinating Network Engineering, Data Centre Operations, carriers, and commercial teams. Regular travel to sites and partners is required, with a focus on execution, risk

Qualifications

• 5+ years in technical programme or project management, ideally in networking or infrastructure.
• Experience delivering large-scale WAN, telecom, or data centre interconnect programmes.
• Strong planning, risk management, and dependency tracking.

Responsibilities

• Drive end-to-end WAN programme delivery, including backbone expansion, new site and region bring-up, capacity upgrades, and network optimisation.
• Build and manage detailed programme plans, tracking dependencies, identifying risks early, and keeping delivery on schedule.
• Coordinate Network Engineering, Infrastructure, SRE, Procurement, and external vendors to deliver against milestones.
• Manage carriers, dark fibre and wavelength providers, IXPs, and hardware vendors through ordering, provisioning, and issue resolution.
• Make sure WAN deployments meet performance, reliability, and scalability requirements before they go into production and are handed to customers.
• Put in place processes, tools, and reporting that improve execution, visibility, and predictability.
• Give clear, regular updates to leadership and stakeholders on progress, risks, and outcomes.

Skills

Technical programme management

WAN / networking experience

Stakeholder management

Travel awareness

Education

PMP or PgMP certification

Job description

Nscale is seeking a Technical Program Manager – WAN to lead planning, coordination, and delivery of the company’s wide-area network across Europe. You’ll ensure backbone, interconnects, and new site connectivity are delivered on time, at scale, and with high reliability.

You’ll work within the Deployment organisation, coordinating Network Engineering, Data Centre Operations, carriers, and commercial teams. Regular travel to sites and partners is required, with a focus on execution, risk