Director Systems Engineering - Africa Region at Parallel Wireless

What You Will Be Doing,

Director of Systems Engineering, Africa region will be empowered to manage all technical activities with multiple customers in Africa Region. The leader will work with global SE teams, engineering, product management, Accounts and Project managers to design, implement and support Parallel Wireless solution.

Key Job Functions

• Lead technical discussions with the customer including network implementation, performance, features, dimensioning and capacity analysis during integration, deployment, and support phase.
• Understand Customer infrastructures, their needs and provide expertise and consulting solutions.
• Author and present customer-facing presentations and written technical materials.
• Execute strategic plans to achieve operational targets and business objectives through managing and coordinating the overall Radio Access Network with the design team.
• Develop RAN metrics and KPIs and work to adhere to those metrics.
• Manage and lead and mentor regional systems engineering team responsible for,
• Solution integration
• ATP Execution
• Software upgrades
• Second and third-tier support to Operations to resolve network issues.
• Manage schedule of local system engineers to ensure on time delivery of the assigned project by collaborating with local PM and Accounts team.

Job Requirements

• Understand End-to-End Wireless Network Architecture. Knowledge 3GPP and ORAN standards and virtualization and container-based network deployments.
• Minimum 15 years Engineering experience in Telcom industry
• Customer-facing experience and negotiations skills
• Wide knowledge of the products and best practice solutions
• Experience in large project integration and delivery and management
• Ability to Travel across Africa region.
• Ability to adapt quickly to changing environments and manage parallel time-critical tasks
• Ability to work and lead in a highly matrixed organization within a collaborative environment.
• Strong background building internal relationships across functions to ensure a success.

Education

• Bachelor’s (B.S) or Master’s degree (M.A. or M.S.) in Engineering; or equivalent training, education and experience.