Remote Senior Network Migration Planner

Lumen; Dover (DE); Remote; USD 88,000 - 124,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and life benefits

Job summary

Lumen is a trusted network provider enabling AI-ready connectivity across cloud, edge, and AI workloads. We offer remote opportunities in the US for experienced professionals driving complex network migrations and programs.

This Senior Planning Engineer role emphasizes planning, coordination, and risk management to meet customer commitments while balancing operational priorities. Based in a remote US environment, you will develop migration roadmaps, manage dependencies, and communicate plans to

Qualifications

• Experience supporting telecommunications, network migration, infrastructure, or transformation programs.
• Knowledge of network planning, implementation, and operations.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional projects and stakeholders.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and organizational skills.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and work effectively in complex environments.
• Customer-facing experience communicating technical concepts to diverse audiences.
• Knowledge of project management, reporting tools, and performance metrics.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain migration plans, schedules, and roadmaps.
• Support route prioritization and execution activities.
• Identify dependencies, constraints, and readiness requirements.
• Coordinate activities supporting network migration delivery.
• Partner with Planning, Engineering, Construction, Implementation, Operations, vendors, and customer-facing teams.
• Facilitate issue resolution and stakeholder alignment.
• Participate in program reviews and governance activities.
• Identify, track, and mitigate risks to migration schedules and customer commitments.
• Support resolution of planning, implementation, capacity, and operational issues.
• Escalate critical concerns and recommend corrective actions.
• Communicate migration plans, schedules, risks, and requirements.
• Support customer meetings, planning reviews, and issue resolution efforts.
• Support occasional overnight customer migrations.
• Build strong relationships with customers and internal stakeholders.
• Maintain migration trackers, metrics, and status reporting.
• Provide schedule forecasts, risk assessments, and program updates.
• Support executive reporting and continuous process improvement initiatives.

Skills

Network planning

Project management

Cross-functional coordination

Stakeholder management

Analytical skills

Tools

Reporting tools

Job description

Lumen is a trusted network provider enabling AI-ready connectivity across cloud, edge, and AI workloads. We offer remote opportunities in the US for experienced professionals driving complex network migrations and programs.

This Senior Planning Engineer role emphasizes planning, coordination, and risk management to meet customer commitments while balancing operational priorities. Based in a remote US environment, you will develop migration roadmaps, manage dependencies, and communicate plans to