Research Director

2 months ago


Ipswich, Suffolk, United Kingdom BT Group Full time
Job Description

Job Title: Director of Research Services

Job Summary:

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Director of Research Services to join our team at BT Group. As a key member of our Research and Network Strategy team, you will play a critical role in driving innovation and delivering business value through research and development.

Key Responsibilities:

  1. Lead Research Projects: Manage and lead one or more related research projects and activities, comprising matrixed resources both inside and outside BT, including university students and vendors.
  2. Engage with Business Units: Proactively engage with relevant business units to downstream strategic technologies for commercial realisation.
  3. Intellectual Property: Responsible for intellectual property creation, managing patent filing in their domain, and supporting IPR exploitation where appropriate.
  4. Research Definition: Accountable for defining and performing research in a specific domain of Autonomous Service Assurance.
  5. Team Supervision: Supervise professionals, graduates, and post-graduate student placements and secondments.
  6. Team Management: Depending on business needs, may manage Research Specialists, Professionals, or other Team members.
  7. Qualifications: Strong academic record in technology specialism with post-graduate qualification(s) (PhD or equivalent research experience).
  8. Storytelling with Data: Strong skills in building the case for change, drawing on data and analytical techniques where appropriate, and communicating this to business audiences.

Requirements:

  1. Technical Domain Expertise: Evidence of significant knowledge and skill relevant to Autonomous Service assurance, including:
  2. Data Science and Software Engineering: Python preferred.
  3. Autonomous Service Assurance Expertise: Including TM forum and industry standards familiarity.
  4. AI/ML Architectures: Development, test, and verification, including use of cloud infrastructure.
  5. Researching Trustworthy Autonomous Systems:
  6. Knowledge of Telecommunications Networks and Systems: Including Mobile.
  7. Proven Experience: Proven experience in researching and/or development in this area, including mobile (MANDATORY).
  8. Significant Delivery: Evidence of significant business impact through delivery of research (MANDATORY).
  9. Stakeholder Management: Evidence of managing project stakeholders across the business at a variety of grade and seniority levels (MANDATORY).
  10. Commercial Applicability: Understanding the business case principles around relevant innovations and the real value to the business through value proposition build (MANDATORY).

Benefits:

  1. Competitive Salary:
  2. Bonus Scheme: 10% on target bonus.
  3. Pension Scheme: BT Pension scheme, minimum 5% Employee contribution, BT contribution 10%.
  4. Annual Leave: 25 days annual leave (not including bank holidays), increasing with service.
  5. Flexible Benefits: Huge range of flexible benefits including cycle to work, healthcare, season ticket loan.
  6. Training and Development: World-class training and development opportunities.
  7. Share Schemes: Option to join BT Shares Saving schemes.
  8. Discounts: Discounted broadband, mobile, and TV packages.
  9. Access to Retail Discounts: Access to 100's of retail discounts including the BT shop.

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