Sr Lead Planning Engineer

$111,480 - $148,630/Yr

Lumen Technologies - Oklahoma City, OK

Full-time - Senior

Oklahoma City, OK

Telecommunications

About the position

The Sr Lead Planning Engineer at Lumen is responsible for setting the direction for systems, networks, user services, and vendor development efforts. This role involves analyzing complex local and wide area network systems, planning and designing network solutions, and ensuring interoperability of systems and hardware. The engineer will act as a subject matter expert, leading projects and providing guidance to lower-level employees, while also identifying and implementing new technologies and processes to enhance business priorities.

Responsibilities

• Design, plan, engineer, and budget complete projects supporting network optimization and consolidation.
• Use best practices when engineering projects to meet financial obligations for ROI while maintaining network architecture and protection schemes.
• Blend technical, organizational, and financial aspects into valid business solutions.
• Identify systematic gaps with internal processes and applications to develop and implement solutions.
• Work independently with limited direction and guidance.
• Identify and champion change, new technology, applications, processes, and systems to align and enhance business priorities.
• Act as team lead supporting prioritization of projects, project distribution and assignments, and reporting on performance and production values.
• Serve as Subject Matter Expert for a variety of network layers, processes, and/or applications.
• Analyze complex local and wide area network systems and/or customer network environment.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent education and experience.
• Typically, 10+ years related experience.
• 8+ years related experience with a Master's degree.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Voluntary lifestyle benefits
• Short-term incentives or sales compensation
• Long-term incentive for Director and VP positions