Packet Core Technical Project Manager

Job Description:

Our client is committed to innovation and technology leadership across mobile, fixed and cloud networks. Your career here will have a positive impact on people’s lives and will help us build the capabilities needed for a more productive, sustainable, and inclusive world. We challenge ourselves to create an inclusive way of working where we are open to new ideas, empowered to take risks and fearless to bring our authentic selves to work. We expect the candidate to be located in Ukraine and have the appropriate work permits.

Relevant Tasks:

•    Responsible for Packet Core domain project delivery schedule creation
•    Responsible to support Project Manager in creation of Project schedule and Resource Management plan
•    Responsible for definition of the required resources, alignment of the resource demand with DDM, TDL
•    Accountable for Project technical documents initiation, creation, and delivery, according to customer and internal procedures
•    Accountable for Packet Core design documents delivery according to customer and project requirements
•    Accountable for Packet Core technical project scope delivery, including network functions deployment, integration, upgrade, acceptance testing, system performance evaluation
•    Accountable to consult Project stakeholders with all technical questions related to Packet Core
•    Defines Packet Core SW implementation strategy, including specific SW version for Packet Core Network Elements (NE), their installation sequence, considering dependency from other NEs of the Nokia solution
•    Defines the requirement for new SW features development, required for project completion. Interworks with R&D and Product Managers to request those features
•    Responsible for managing of project technical risks
•    Defines and implement new tools to increase project execution effectiveness, including automation tools, provides feedback toward tools developers
•    Manage Packet Core project technical team on daily basics, including specific tasks assignment and control of their execution, coordinate engineer’s work according to customer demands and expectation
•    Schedule and facilitate regular Project technical meetings. Provides report about the status, existing issues, future plans according to responsibility area
•    Accountable for quality of all technical process and procedures implemented at the project, e.g. customer network intervention: administrative and technical preparations of such Interventions, including development of all required procedures and their rehearsal testing in labs, instructing intervention engineers, making decision about the results of Intervention execution. For failed Intervention or/and for customer network outages, caused by the Intervention, responsible to provide RCA, list of corrective and preventive actions, secure the actions implementation.
•    Accountable and responsible for closure and follow up of all Tickets raised towards Salesforce/4LS/R&D
•    Accountable for tickets consolidation, prioritization and escalation
•    Responsible for Kick of call of upgrade project and discuss the requirements during upgrade e.g. MW length, Traffic migration, SOW, Deliverables, exclusions etc.
•    Defines Packet Core SW upgrade strategy, including recommendation & decision of target SW version for Packet Core Network Elements (NE), their upgrade sequence, considering dependency from other NEs of the Nokia solution
•    Accountable for Project technical documents study, release notes study compatibility matrix compliance, according to customer and internal procedures
•    Accountable for creation of upgrade assessment document for customer which explains what all SW bugs/problems fixed in SW version and new features etc.
•    Responsible for Assignments of Network Element for upgrade 
•    Responsible for Maintenance window coordination with various customer and internal SPOCs during upgrade execution
•    Responsible for decision making on EME call and all relevant escalation on firsthand
•    Responsible for coordination/communication with customer and other stake holders related to technical delivery.
•    Responsible for reporting project weekly updates to managment
•    Responsible for care handover of Project
•    Responsible to contribute in improvement of SCD DQ(Delivery Quality) KPI by reviewing the need to raise Care case.

What you will love about working here?

• We care about all our employees and want them to feel as comfortable as possible. That's why we offer them health insurance from the first days, regardless of the probationary period.
• The gift from the company - Christmas holidays from 25 December to 31 December.
• Сooperation with Superhumans center and Veteran HUB. Capgemini Engineering has supported the launch of psychological rehabilitation department of Superhumans. Our team also donnated over UAH 500 000 prosthetics for three Ukrainian defenders. Currently, we support psychological counseling provided by the Veteran Hub, and we have implemented a internal policy making the company friendly to military and veterans with the assistance of the Hub.