Head, Transport Engineering at Airtel

Purpose of the Job

• This is a vital position to head and manage design & planning of network unit and providing technical solutions for connecting cell sites and enterprise customer locations for excellent customer experience.
• This person will be interacting with the Partners’ teams’ very extensively. Robust, flexible and state of art fiber and microwave transmission network planning & delivery is the essence of the role.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Transmission Design based on optical fibre network and Microwave.
• Design the MBPN and data network
• Pre-qualification & participation in the ordered network elements based on engineering and commercial aspects.
• Definition of network reference architecture designs for Airtel OpCo transmission and transport networks to support IP/TDM based mobile voice/data, enterprise and other services, with the aim at delivering clear design targets to the Africa operations to plan and execute against.
• Identify and evaluate converging technology opportunities as well as study and evaluate market trends that apply directly and indirectly to the Airtel OpCo of assignment.

Skills and Qualifications

• Bachelor of Engineering Degree in Electronics & Communications Engineering
• Sound knowledge of fiber optics network for Mobile & Enterprise Network - Planning
• Bachelors of Science in Telecommunications
• 10 years telecommunication experience
• More than 6 years’ experience in Transport Planning.
• Experience in optical fiber networks design, DWDM
• MBPN and IP design
• Ericsson or Huawei Transmission experience is required.

Competencies:

• Good communication skills
• Ability to work in challenging environment.
• Analytical thinking and decision making
• Dynamic personality
• Analytical and Presentation skills.