Essential duties and responsibilities
- Support the Portfolio/Product team with new product creation including vendor selection, testing and development, to ensure technical product & service releases and enhancements are delivered on time and on budget.
- Work closely with other internal teams to build and develop our product offering and customer credibility.
- Develop and contribute to company-wide technology policies, practices, and standards.
- Contribute to improving ways of working with the technology practices.
- Collaborating in cross-functional teams across technical practices to develop cross-portfolio solutions.
- Focus on service/technologies relating to Secure Digital Networks including but not limited to (SD)WAN, LAN, MPLS, Firewall, Security, VPN, WI-FI, Cellular.
- Design and template standardised Network & Connectivity solutions that meet business requirements and ensure scalability, reliability, and security.
- Supporting the pre-sales process through advice, validation and design guidance. Including customer engagements, internal meetings and design sign-off ensuring that proposed solutions meet expectation, are deliverable and can be supported operationally.
- Responsible and accountable for the technical data gathering and documentation in an agreed, shared location.
- Support our continual service improvement by the review of solutions, systems and process to identify areas of improvement and where appropriate manage those improvements into implementation to ensure high quality, efficient and consistent delivery, right first time and on-budget.
- Continually seek opportunities to increase customer satisfaction and deepen client relationships.
- Facilitate training to enable greater self-sufficiency for peers, support staff and the solution architects.
- Be familiar with industry innovations, trends and developments within the networking & Connectivity, security and VOIP field.
- Comply with and help to enforce standard policies and procedures.
- You will be required to work out of hours as required by a project or deployment and provide out of hours support via an on-call rotation.
Teams to collaborate with
- Portfolio and Propositions - collaborate to provide engineering support for the Network & Connectivity Portfolio. Provide feedback to improve customer solutions.
- Solutions Architecture – support team with technical expertise to help underpin and translate client need and create a design proposal.
- Customer Experience and Managed Services – collaborate to ensure a smooth service transition from technical delivery into in-life support where required.