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Snr Specialist: Network Architect

BCXP

Centurion

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ZAR 600,000 - 800,000

Full time

Yesterday
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Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Senior Engineer to ensure high-quality standards in Voice and Data Network solutions. The role involves strategic planning, team leadership, and technical expertise development, with a focus on optimizing network strategies and preparing customer proposals. Ideal candidates should have a Bachelor's degree and significant experience in IT environments, particularly in network management.

Qualifications

  • Minimum 7 years relevant IT experience, including 4 years in Voice/Data Networks.
  • Experience leading teams preferred.

Responsibilities

  • Provide technical and strategic expertise for network solutions.
  • Manage network rollout activities to achieve business targets.
  • Lead a team of specialists in achieving objectives.

Skills

Relationship Building
Technical Expertise
Negotiation
Strategic Planning

Education

NQF 7: 3 year Bachelor's Degree in Business/Commerce or Information Technology

Job description

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Responsible for ensuring that high quality standards are met through evaluation, designing and preparing detailed specifications for larger complex Solutions that are in alignment with BCX's Standards, assisting with Pre-Sales Customer proposals and Tender Responses as well as mentoring other Voice engineers.

Key Deliverables / Primary Functions

Provide technical and strategic expertise by:

  • Document and describe the requirements, applied design principles, technical components (physical, logical and component) and product selection (services, hardware, software and network) needed to support the operation of applications
  • Plan access network strategy and roll-out and ensure optimisation
  • Select and deploy technology to optimise multi-Tenant access roll out and allow automatic service creation.
  • Represent conceptual designs graphically
  • Defines the product/service specification in terms of Technology, People, Process and documents for network access and establishment of BCX own Access presence
  • Ensure the product/service is implemented across systems and that a full FAB environment support the product/service portfolio

Ensure clean hand-over of solutions for implementation and delivery by:

  • Manage network rollout activities in line with business plan requirements to achieve revenue and strategic targets, expanding customer base and enabling the full-service portfolio over the Communications Network.
  • Audit the deployed products/services for compliance with the standards and designs.
  • Engage and onboard network providers to extend the reach and product portfolio BCX can offer to its customer base.

Provide sales and commercial support by:

  • Negotiate with 3rd parties, potential partners and suppliers for the best solutions to support BCS’s access networks strategy
  • Bridge the gap between sales acumen and engineering expertise to demonstrate usefulness of products
  • Deliver presentations with consultative style selling using technical skills, solving problems for client and consult with clients to identify Telecommunications Solution opportunities
  • Develop solution pricing including supporting pricing models, and develop technical and pricing sections of Client proposals
  • Responding to RFX’s and compiling customer proposals relating to:
  • Access Networks,
  • Provide operational support by:Contribute towards attaining BCX Converged Communication Targets

Lead a team of specialist by providing expert guidance in the delivery of the business plan and team objectives

Core Functional Skills & Capabilities

Integrated Business Solution

Infrastructure Development& Support

Proposal Management

Relationship Building

Core Behavioural Competencies

Applying expertise & Technology

Working with people

Deciding & Initiating Action

Persuading and Influencing

Planning & Organising

Entrepreneurial & Commercial thinking

Culture Match

Job Match

Minimum Qualifications

NQF 7: 3 year Bachelors Degree in Business/ Commerce or Information Technology

OR NQF 4: Grade 12

Additional Education -Preferred /Advantage
Experience
  • 7 years relevant experience in an IT environment of which at least (4) four years in a Voice Network and or Data Networks environment.

OR

9 years relevant experience in IT environment of which at least (4) four years in a Voice Network and or Data Networks environment and 2 years’ experience in leading teams

Certifications

Qualification in other Voice technologies’ will be considered

Professional Memberships in Relevant Industry
Level of Engagement & Span of Control
Special Requirements / Employment Condition

Drivers Licence and Reliable Vehicle - both required

Required to travel locally and/or internationally

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