Senior Network Planning Specialist

What you'll do:

You will work in a team of Network Planners, Software Developers and Data Scientists to support the growth of Sky’s Voice and Data Centre infrastructure and to drive the network strategy across Sky’s European network.

This is a highly dynamic role that will allow you to grow multidisciplinary skills beyond the network domain and into the Data Science and Network Modelling domains.

Your main responsibilities will be:

Network Dimensioning

• Collaborate with network Architecture, Design teams and Vendors to ensure the network is correctly dimensioned and resilient
• Ensure all stakeholders are informed of future capacity requirements and drive the implementation with support from the delivery teams
• Network Modelling
• Identify network capacity limits and related network metrics
• Create capacity and economic network models
• Generate capacity and budget forecasts
• Network Analytics
• Apply data science methodologies to analyse and improve network performance and cost efficiency
• Develop Insights to support commercial objectives and present analysis/plans to relevant stakeholders up to Group CTO

What you'll bring:

Essential requirements:

• BSc in Engineering or Telecommunications (or similar)
• English and Italian language
• Industry experience with carrier networks either on capacity planning, engineering or technical project management
• Proven analytical skills
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Proactive attitude with a growth mindset
• Desirable requirements
• CCNA or equivalent certification
• Hands on experience dimensioning voice network components and voice interconnects including interactions with AgCom, MiSE, Telecom Italia, etc.
• Familiarity with analysing and forecasting time series data
• Experience extracting and analysing large network data sets
• Some programming skills in Python and hands-on knowledge of SQL
• Acquaintance with Agile methodologies

Team Overview:

The Group Network Software and Data Science team, part of Sky’s Engineering Division, takes a data-driven approach towards meeting network planning goals, including capacity planning, performance planning and network economics. We develop insights which reinforce planning decisions and support wider commercial objectives.