Research Professional

**Research Professional - Cloud Infrastructure**:

- Job Req ID: 48929
- Posting Date: 11 Jul 2025
- Function: Product & Propositions
- Unit: Networks
- Location: Ipswich (4405), Ipswich, United Kingdom
- Salary: Competitive with great benefits

**Why this role matters**:
This role is based in Ipswich or Bristol and our hybrid working model means you are expected to be in the office 3 days per week.

**You'll have the following responsibilities**:
Technical expert responsible for maintaining expertise in a specific technical domain.
- Responsible for intellectual property creation, contributing to patent filing with their team and supporting IPR exploitation where appropriate
- Accountable for performing research in a specific domain (i.e. Cloud Infrastructure Research) or area that is typically unknown, complex, high impact and high value across multiple domains.
- Responsible for authoring technical papers, capturing intellectual property.
- Responsible for developing novel research work and contributing towards recommendations for future research projects.

**You'll have the following skills and exprience**:
**Skills**
- **Technical domain expert**:Technical or domain expertise. They continually develop their expertise in a key technical area so they are recognised as a technical expert in that domain
- **Qualifications**:Strong academic record in technology specialism, qualified to degree level and may hold a post-graduate qualification
- **Expert communicator**:Presents to peers and managers about their research and area of technical expertise.
- **Experienced in open innovation**:Contributes to creation of patents, technical publications, conference presentations etc.
- **Concept Evaluation**: ability to spot relevant innovations, horizon scanning, determine relevance for the business, develop an effective conceptualisation and build trials to test the concept.

**Experience**

Technical domain expert: evidence of significant knowledge and skill relevant to Cloud Infrastructure, including:

- Networks fundamentals (MANDATORY)
- NFV/Virtualisation core principles (MANDATORY)
- Infrastructure/hardware aspects of telco cloud (MANDATORY)
- Linux
- admin, OS, networking (DESIRABLE)
- Software-defined networking and its role in telco cloud deployments (DESIRABLE)
- Automation principles applicable to telco cloud and cloud native infrastructure (DESIRABLE)
- Other (non CPU) hardware in telco cloud infrastructure (DESIRABLE)
- Data centre design fundamentals (DESIRABLE)
- Tooling/instrumentation (DESIRABLE)
- Software development (DESIRABLE)
- AI/ML and applicability to network management and optimisation (DESIRABLE)
- Experience of publishing papers and delivering conference presentations (DESIRABLE)
- Significant delivery: evidence of business impact through contribution to delivery of research (MANDATORY)
- Stakeholder management: evidence of managing project tasks within local team. (MANDATORY)
- Innovative Thinker: ability to spot and identify new innovations and act to bring them in and capitalise and create value (MANDATORY)
- Commercial Applicability: understanding the business opportunity and potential value around relevant innovations (PREFERRED)
- Problem solving, intellectually curious, comfortable taking ownership and responsibility
- Self-starter, proactively working with mínimal guidance

**Benefits**:

- 10% on target bonus
- BT Pension scheme, minimum 5% Employee contribution, BT contribution 10%
- From January 2025, equal family leave: receive 18 weeks at full pay, 8 weeks at half pay and 26 weeks at the statutory rate. It’s for all parents, no matter how your family is made up.
- Enhanced women’s health support: including help with menopause symptoms, cancer screenings, period care and more.
- 25 days annual leave (not including bank holidays), increasing with service
- 24/7 private virtual GP appointments for UK colleagues
- 2 weeks carer’s leave
- World-class training and development opportunities
- Option to join BT Shares Saving schemes

**Our leadership standards**:
**Looking in**:
**Leading inclusively and Safely**
I inspire and build trust through self-awareness, honesty and integrity.
**Owning outcomes**
I take the right decisions that benefit the broader organisation.

**Looking out**:
**Delivering for the customer**
I execute brilliantly on clear priorities that add value to our customers and the wider business.
**Commercially savvy**
I demonstrate strong commercial focus, bringing an external perspective to decision-making.

**Looking to the future**:
**Growth mindset**
I experiment and identify opportunities for growth for both myself and the organisation.
**Building for the future**
I build diverse future-ready teams where all individuals can be at their best.

**About us**

BT Group was the world’s first telco and our heritage in the sector is unrivalled. As home to several of the UK’s most recognised and cherished brands - BT, EE, Openreach and Plusnet, we have always played