T-Fiber Sr Engineer, Systems Design

Full-time - Mid Level

Hybrid - Overland Park, KS

Telecommunications

About the position

The T-Fiber System Design Engineer's role is to design, validate and deploy technical solutions to maintain, enhance, and evolve the T-Mobile Network and Systems. Specific tasks may include the development and maintenance of designs for the network, applications, data centers, connectivity, validation plans, monitoring systems, reporting systems and engineering tools. This position requires in-depth knowledge of telecommunications with a focus on FTTH, XGS-PON, ACS's, API's TR069, RDK, and W-Fi technologies. The priority of these designs is to maximize reliability, performance, and efficiency while limiting costs and time to market. Responsibilities may include the evaluation and translation of requirements into design, evaluate design benefits and tradeoffs, validate design compliance and support deployment of the design to ensure the requirements were met. Development of tools may be required in order to most efficiently solve technical or business challenges including technology evolution, capacity management, and performance optimization.

Responsibilities

• Understands system protocols, how systems operate and data flows.
• Aware of current technology benefits.
• Expected to lead and deliver complex network designs.
• Deep understanding of the building blocks, interactions, dependencies, and tools required to complete design work.
• Independent study of current technology is expected.
• Drives engineering projects by active contribution to the application of engineering techniques; conducting tests and inspections; preparing reports and calculations.
• Expected to supervise associate and base level engineers as needed.
• Develops procedures and processes to validate and enhance and optimize network.
• Creates appropriate validation tests and inspection techniques and effectively documents results.
• Able to prepare executive summaries of activities and clearly communicate areas of opportunity.
• Contributes to designs to implement new ideas which improve an existing and new system/process/service.
• Understands and can apply new industry perspectives to our existing business model.
• Review existing designs and processes to highlight more efficient ways to complete existing workload more effectively through industry perspectives.
• Seeks opportunities to improve designs, processes, or product by reducing cost, improving efficiency, or quality.
• Proactively contributes during brainstorming sessions.
• Maintains knowledge of existing technology documents.
• Writes basic documentation on how technology works.
• Contributes clear documentation on multiple systems used.
• Able to document systems designs, business requirements and technical interpretation.
• Develops and provides technical data for incorporation into internal presentations.
• Technical Leadership: Collaborates with technical teams and utilizes system expertise to deliver technical solutions.
• Continuously learns and teaches others existing and new technologies.
• Contributes to the development of others through mentoring or in house workshops and learning sessions.
• Influence technology and policy decisions made across the appropriate functional organization.
• Contributes to new and existing technology options that supports business goals.
• Strategic end to end dimensioning, planning and performance of the network.
• Development of optimization features and processes.
• Provides capacity plans and performance reports.
• Provides regular performance reports for nodes, interfaces, and services across.
• Supports performance related lab and FOA activities.
• Systems Engineering and design of T-Mobile's Network.
• Feasibility analysis of new technologies, products, features, and services.
• In depth analysis (both fiscal and technical) and design of new features and technologies.
• Development and deployment of network technology software/automation reporting and tools to meet internal customer and business requirements.
• Collect, process and evaluate market/regional analytics to identify further business CAPEX spend and OPEX Savings.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering/Computer Science, or related field of study. Advanced degree preferred.
• 5 yrs of technical engineering experience.
• A strong history with Calix, Nokia, Eero or ADTRAN XGS PON.
• Strong knowledge of Ethernet and Wi-Fi CPE / ONT gear.
• At least 18 years of age.
• Legally authorized to work in the United States.

Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision insurance
• Flexible spending account
• 401(k)
• Employee stock grants
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Paid time off and up to 12 paid holidays
• Paid parental and family leave
• Family building benefits
• Back-up care
• Enhanced family support
• Childcare subsidy
• Tuition assistance
• College coaching
• Short- and long-term disability
• Voluntary AD&D coverage
• Voluntary accident coverage
• Voluntary life insurance
• Voluntary disability insurance
• Voluntary long-term care insurance
• Mobile service & home internet discounts
• Pet insurance
• Access to commuter and transit programs