Flint are looking for a IP Design Lead to join one of our clients in the UK on a perm basis.

Duration: Permanent

Salary exp: £neg. depending on experience

What you will be doing:

• Provide technical leadership across the domain, establish design best practice.
• Oversee design activities across the domain to ensure component designs integrate and interoperate cohesively and that current activities align with strategic network evolution goals.
• Analyse and inform technical projects, ensuring planned deliveries are achievable, that they call on the most appropriate technical options available and are effectively managing risks and issues.
• maintain a portfolio of 12-24 month improvement activities that will inform the budgetary and workstack management cycles.
• Using a mixture of deep domain specific technical knowledge, substantial experience of successful delivery and generic analytical/logical skills, coach more junior members of the team and play a formative role in their development.
• Advise line managers on all technical aspects of project resourcing, individual team member development and feedback on staff and team.
• Coordinate the portfolio of activities across the technical domain to optimise overall delivery plans.
• Provide design authority for complex solutions platforms.

Skills Required for the Role:

• Technical experience: Design expertise in IP/MPLS/mobile technologies and complex design solutions in network technology domain. Recognised for technology design leadership.

• In depth knowledge of IP routing and switching technologies.
• In depth knowledge of mobile network architecture and IP transport solutions for securely connecting mobile network elements and service platforms.
• In depth knowledge of quality of service and OAM mechanisms in packet switched data networks.
• Evidence of strong mentoring and coaching skills. Evidence of driving the technical development of a team in a rapidly changing market place.
• Ability to manage vendors to ensure timely and cost-effective delivery of solutions.
• Good communication skills with internal and external teams/customers, including the ability to articulate ideas in basic financial terms.
• Knowledge of IP/MPLS technologies.
• Knowledge of data centre networking and network virtualisation.
• An appreciation of fixed broadband and voice network architectures and associated technologies.
• Knowledge of evolving industry trends, best practice and customer requirements in the telecoms arena.