Sr. Manager, Systems Engineering

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What you’ll be doing...

We are seeking a Sr. Manager, Systems Engineering for the Access Engineering team. The position is a critical leadership role within Access Engineering, including,Radio Access Network (RAN) Engineering, Telecom, and Business. The Manager will be responsible for delivering a constantly improving end-to-end workflow, cycle time and process improvements. In this new role, the leader will be responsible for managing a team that transcends traditional organizational and product boundaries to build fluid, requirements-based user-driven experiences with our applications.

Your work will focus on shaping end to end processes from inception of a new wireless solution, through activation including full accountability for product vision & strategy, roadmap and backlogs around key mission objectives, delivering features from concept to launch through agile delivery methodologies, ensuring value realization, run governance and support that delivers outstanding business results / user experience.
Partnership is essential in this role, as we focus on shaping a strategy that requires collaboration within the Planning, Engineering, and Network Assurance domains for wireless and wireline, in-franchise and out of franchise.

The application landscape you will directly influence and define the experience for includes FUZE, and CoFEE. Responsibilities will include but not limited to:

• Owning the agile delivery model, roadmap, backlog execution processes for RAN Engineering tools.
• Executing the product roadmap, end to end data strategy / vision, including governance and data continuous improvement.
• Partnering with stakeholders to inform the product vision and overall architectural strategy.
• Partnering with stakeholders and maintaining the sprint backlog for assigned products, balancing the requirements of the business, production support and northstar vision.
• Leading the product functional design process.
• Translating business processes into the design of RAN Engineering tools, how to drive accountability with upstream data owners to ensure appropriate coordination occurs to enable accurate mapping, complete / accurate data for downstream consumption.
• Coordinating support for systems initiatives driven by other groups if there are impacts to downstream systems.
• Building and maintaining strong relationships with business partners, technology teams, and strategic vendors; including the ability to collaborate and influence.
• Partnering with cross-functional technology teams to determine pain points for users of our services.
• Attracting, recruiting, managing, developing, and retaining talented team members, including hiring and growing employees as well as effective use of contractors with vendor relationships.

Where you'll be working…

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and assigned office days set by your manager.

What we’re looking for...

You’ll need to have:

• Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of experience.
• Six or more years of relevant work experience.
• Experience in working with global teams and overcoming time zone challenges.
• Experience in Engineering Transformation including DevOps, Microservices, Cloud technologies.

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• Experience in taking ideas from theory into execution in partnership with others.
• Experience in setting rigorous technical and architectural standards.
• Experience in technical knowledge of agile tools and products.
• Experience in motivating employees with highly diverse skill sets and work experiences.
• Demonstrated ability to prioritize workloads, set milestones, and meet project deadlines
• Experience in working within the agile/Kanban framework
• Good leadership skills, preferably within a technology organization.
• Knowledge of negotiating with vendors, and other partners.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Experience in prioritizing workloads, setting milestones, and meeting project deadlines.
• Experience in tracking records of defining and delivering cross functional solutions that are innovative.

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every “even better” qualification listed above.

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