Ip Design Authority

**Role Title**:IP Design Authority
**Location**:Any UK Hub & Hybrid *
**Salary**:Excellent basic salary plus bonus and Vodafone benefits
**Working Hours**:Full time - 37.5 hours per week - Mon to Fri

**Hybrid**
At Vodafone UK we believe that through collaboration and connection with our colleagues we can achieve great things. Our hybrid working approach allows our people to work both in the office and at home, providing the flexibility and resources you need to succeed in your role. We don't require you to be in on specific days; instead, we ask people to come into the office 2-3 days each week, on average 8 days a month. Our “Office in a Box” home working kit will provide you with everything you need, no matter where you are.

**Who We Are**
Join our Vodafone UK Networks team, where we’re continually building and enhancing our network, connecting millions of people and businesses across the country. Be part of the team that makes it all happen - simplifying, automating, and bringing better connectivity than ever before, with giga-fast speed, to our customers.

**Role Purpose / What You’ll Do**
- Responsible for the creation of IP designs to support all demands across Vodafone UK. Supporting Design, Testing and Validation, Implementation & Integration and Acceptance activity, providing leadership and guidance on resolving complex technical issues.
- Own Infrastructure designs and solutions, leading innovation to bring new ideas and products to the market quickly and efficiently. Always ensuring design aligns to the Company Roadmaps / Strategy.
- Seen as the SME providing technical guidance to assist configuration, support & provide teams on all areas relating to IP Design
- Responsible for the IP Area Controller (Nokia NSP) development as part of the Software Defined Networking introduction. This is a key part of this role to ensure we deliver as much automation capability into the UK business & evolve service deployment from the current set up to using Intent Based Service Fulfilment in NSP.
- Good understanding of the TDO (Transport Domain Orchestrator) and its interaction with the network / NSP / NFM-P. Define detailed process steps to evolve from today’s service deployment model to the expected future set up using the SDN stack.
- The main interfaces are within the Service Management, Product Management, Mobile networks, Service Delivery, Program management & Operations.
- To own the technical relationship with vendors, continually looking to deliver improvements to existing & new designs.
- Work with the problem Management team for any issues relating to the UK IP Design, ensuring the problem is fully understood & any design changes required are delivered to time.
- Ensuring network inventories such as Cramer are aligned to the live core & backhaul network. Working with OSS & IT to ensure as the network evolves their tools can also cater for these network changes.
- Support lifecycle management activities, including reviewing EoX notifications / vendor roadmaps, delivering the most cost-effective way to evolve the network, while staying in vendor support,
- Heavily involved in relationship with vendors, continually looking to deliver improvements to existing & new designs through HW & SW evolution features.

**Key Accountabilities & Decision Ownership**
- Support all activities within the NSP in terms of design & evolution to ensure service migrations evolve to using the SDN stack
- To produce or modify appropriate technical documentation as part of the evolution of the network & SDN.
- Manage all financial requirements needed, covering the next few FYs to ensure the appropriate funding is detailed, requested and spent to meet forecasted network growth.
- To develop SDN capability for the wider business, developing the building blocks for automation that all UK teams could use.
- Ensure there is well understood & documented governance around how SDN automation should be developed, onboarded and operated across the UK business.

**Core Competencies, Knowledge & Experience**
- Seen as the SME within the Business for Nokia NSP / NFM
- Good knowledge and understanding of Backhaul & Core IP networks.
- Good understanding of TDO platform & its interaction with the network or SDN stack
- Excellent knowledge of telecommunications network systems and their services
- Excellent knowledge of Services (Mobile, Broadband & Enterprise) utilising MPLS networks & how they route.
- Strong knowledge of Software Defined Networking

**Technical / Professional Qualifications**
- Ideally Cisco CCNP / Nokia SRA qualified. Excellent knowledge of routers / switches & network design
- Excellent knowledge of Cramer would be ideal
- Coding: Some experience here would be useful - VBA/Macro, Perl, Python, SQL

**Key Performance Indicators**
- Ensuring the NSP / SDN evolves as required, with active use cases across the UK network within the next year
- Ensuring service deployment / modification for the UK business evolved away from