Senior Technical Solutions Specialist

Cellnex Telecom; Reading; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

28 days annual leave

10% annual bonus

Enhanced parental leave

Income protection

Hybrid working model

Job summary

Cellnex Telecom is seeking a seasoned technical leader to shape and deliver the UK solution roadmap. You will serve as the trusted technical authority across the lifecycle, translating customer needs into innovative, commercially viable products in collaboration with Sales and Product teams.

Based in Reading with a hybrid scheme, you will engage with MNOs and suppliers, lead major bids, and influence product development while promoting value-driven, scalable telecom solutions.

Qualifications

• Extensive telecoms technical experience.
• Experience with MNOs and external suppliers preferred.
• Able to translate customer requirements into technical solutions.

Responsibilities

• Define and deliver the technical roadmap across the UK market.
• Act as the technical authority throughout the solution lifecycle.
• Collaborate with design, sales and product teams to create solutions.
• Identify and engage with suppliers, supporting RFQ/onboarding and BAU duties.
• Lead pre-sales high-value opportunities and maintain UK relationships.

Skills

Telecoms experience

Pre-sales

MNO collaboration

Supplier management

Technical authority

Job description

As part of our Customer Solutions team, you'll play a key role in defining and delivering the technical roadmap that underpins our products and solutions across the UK market. Working with Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) and a diverse range of customers, you'll help transform complex requirements into innovative, commercially viable solutions that support our long-term strategic ambitions.

Reporting to the Head of Design and working closely with Sales and Product teams, you’ll act as a trusted technical authority throughout the solution lifecycle. From capturing and assessing customer requirements to influencing the development of new products, services and capabilities, you'll bring together technical expertise, customer insight and strategic thinking to create solutions that deliver real value for both our customers and our business.

This is a hybrid position based at our welcoming offices in Reading, with three days in the office and two days working from home.

We welcome applications from everyone. If you require any adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know—we’re here to support you.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide Technology insight – including opportunities and threats. Continual research of current and emerging technologies and proposing changes to approach where needed.
• Analyse MNO technical and spectrum strategies to understand how this might create specific opportunities and threats
• Collaborate with the design team and internal stakeholders to create solutions, based on common products, components and capabilities
• Identify and engage with suitable potential suppliers and partners. Support the Head of Design with supplier reviews, supplier RFQ/onboarding and any other BAU Operational design duties
• Develop and maintain relationships with customers & suppliers at Senior Management level
• For major bids act as the technical authority for very high value propositions
• Act as a UK Technical Authority for product and solution development
• Be recognised as a Subject Matter Expert internally and externally
• Working within the Solution Design Team, complete all assigned pre-sales HLDs, post-sales LLDs on opportunities to agreed SLAs. Site visits may be required
• Collaborate with corporate and shared service teams to incorporate best practice and market changes into the technical roadmap and solution design

We Offer

• Step into a role that values your expertise and supports your career development.
• Be part of a collegiate team that supports a growth mindset.
• Amongst other benefits -
• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• 10% target annual bonus
• Enhanced Maternity, Paternity & Adoption leave offering; 26 weeks full basic pay for Maternity leave, followed by 13 weeks SMP – Enhanced leave is intended for all parents, whatever your family setup may be.
• Income protection & Life assurance
• Hybrid working model (3 days in the office, 2 days remote)

Experience

• Extensive experience within Telecoms industry in technical roles
• Demonstrable experience of working within or closely with MNOs and external suppliers is preferred

All round understanding of

• RF environment and radio planning principles for macro sites, small cells and in-building DAS solutions
• MNO technical and spectrum strategies
• Site design and deployment, including a working knowledge of acquisition, design and planning requirements for both rooftop and greenfield deployment
• Backhaul transmission including microwave links
• Dark fibre

A deeper knowledge in one or more of the following

• DAS Architecture and design (capacity and coverage Modelling)
• Open RAN
• Private networks
• Connectivity
• The Telecoms Security Act
• Don’t worry if you don’t meet every requirement. We’re building a workplace where everyone can thrive. If this role excites you, we encourage you to apply, even if your experience doesn’t tick every box.

You’ll enjoy this role if

• You enjoy being the technical authority supporting the wider commercial team.

Equity, Diversity & Inclusion

Cellnex Telecom is a leader in communication, technology and innovation and employs over 2000 people. We want everyone to feel valued by creating a culture of inclusion and belonging. We do this by empowering all our people to be authentic and share their ideas and experiences to ensure we have diversity of perspective. Only by doing this will we be a truly innovative forward-thinking organisation.

Who Are We?

Cellnex is Europe’s and the UK’s largest and fastest-growing independent owner and neutral operator of wireless telecoms infrastructure and is integral to the successful rollout of 5G. With the wireless infrastructure foundation that we deliver across rural and urban areas, Cellnex UK helps to connect everyone, everywhere - reducing digital inequality and supporting socio-economic growth. Our networks and solutions are built to be fit for now and the future so that the UK can prosper. We are a business built on commercial and technical innovation, ambition and sustainable growth.

We provide high-speed connectivity for sports stadia, shopping centres, campuses, railways, ports and even in the air. Whenever you're out in public, and you call a loved one, scroll through social media, watch a funny video or check if your train is running on time, there's a high chance that our infrastructure is enabling your connection.

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Authenticity of Assessment

Our recruitment process is designed to assess each candidate's own knowledge, skills, judgement, and experience. Unless explicitly stated otherwise, candidates should not use generative AI tools or third-party assistance to answer interview questions, complete assessments, or produce work submitted as part of the selection process.

If we believe that AI or other external assistance has been used in a way that compromises the integrity of the assessment, we reserve the right to investigate this and, where appropriate, withdraw the application from the recruitment process.