Senior Mobile Data Planning Architect

Singtel; Singapore; On-site; Confidential; Full time

Job summary

Singtel Networks is seeking a seasoned Mobile Data Engineering professional to lead end-to-end planning for 4G/5G data platforms. You will own roadmaps for 4G VNF and 5G CNF, ensuring scalability, performance, and alignment with business priorities.

You will provide domain expertise across 4G EPC, 5G Core, control plane, user plane, roaming, VoLTE/VoNR, IoT, and analytics, while driving DevOps, automation, and lifecycle management across cloud-native and virtualized environments.

Qualifications

• Degree in Telecommunications, Electrical/Electronic Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems or related discipline.
• 10 or more years of experience in mobile network planning or mobile data engineering.
• Strong domain knowledge in 4G/5G environments including VNF/CNF, EPC and service assurance.
• Experience with GitLab, DevOps practices, CI/CD and automation.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end planning for mobile data platforms across 4G and 5G environments.
• Own planning roadmap for 4G VNF and 5G CNF domains.
• Provide domain expertise across 4G EPC, 5G Core, VoLTE, VoNR, IoT, and analytics.
• Define architecture, capacity, interface, integration, monitoring, and performance requirements for new mobile data capabilities.
• Ensure engineering plans support business growth, customer experience, operational efficiency, automation, security, and cost optimization.
• End-to-End Architecture and Technical Ownership.
• Lead end-to-end solution planning across mobile core, IP transport, data centre, cloud infrastructure, virtualization, container platforms, monitoring, orchestration, and operational support systems.
• Drive readiness of environments for deployment, testing, integration, commissioning, production acceptance, and operational handover.
• Serve as the technical planning authority for mobile data use cases that span network, IT, cloud, security, automation, analytics, and business teams.
• DevOps, GitLab and Automation
• Lead the adoption of DevOps practices for mobile data engineering, including GitLab-based source control, CI/CD pipelines, configuration management, change traceability, automated testing, and controlled deployment workflows.
• Drive automation initiatives to improve delivery speed, configuration consistency, service assurance, operational efficiency, and incident response.
• Promote infrastructure-as-code, pipeline-driven deployment, repeatable testing, automated validation, and standardized rollback practices where applicable.
• Work with engineering, operations, vendors, and platform teams to industrialize automation for 4G VNF and 5G CNF deployment, upgrade, monitoring, and lifecycle activities.
• Ensure DevOps and automation practices comply with security, governance, change management, and production control requirements.
• LMP, Platform and Lifecycle Management.
• Provide planning and domain leadership for LMP-related capabilities, platform onboarding, lifecycle management, orchestration, inventory, performance, and operational readiness.

Skills

DevOps practices

CI/CD pipelines

Automation

GitLab

Cloud-native platforms

5G CNF / 4G VNF

Mobile core / EPC

Security knowledge

Project management

Vendor management

End-to-end telecom setup

Education

Degree in Telecommunications / ECE / CS

Job description

Singtel Networks is seeking a seasoned Mobile Data Engineering professional to lead end-to-end planning for 4G/5G data platforms. You will own roadmaps for 4G VNF and 5G CNF, ensuring scalability, performance, and alignment with business priorities.

You will provide domain expertise across 4G EPC, 5G Core, control plane, user plane, roaming, VoLTE/VoNR, IoT, and analytics, while driving DevOps, automation, and lifecycle management across cloud-native and virtualized environments.