Responsibilities
• Manage Programs/Projects involving Optical Infrastructure/Services deployment.
• Project Governance - Ensuring project resources execute against plans within the agreed time frame and budget.
• Tracking costs associated to a project, ensuring projects remain within budget
• Stakeholder Management - Leading scrum and other project calls as required, whilst keeping teams and management informed of critical activities and challenges impacting the program.
• Supporting Vendor & Supplier Management, including logistics where needed
• Reporting - Create group/project weekly Product Status Reports (PSRs), Milestone trackers, Metrics & Reports for communicating statuses to management.
• Risk & Issue Management – Working with resources to ensure risks/issues are identified, documented, and managed to guidelines.
• Attend project wash-up reviews and provide input to develop key learnings and execute actions to address them.
• Identify areas for continuous improvement, document issues seen, and provide suggestions on how to handle them.
Skills/Requirement
• 5 years+ experience executing Agile project/program management.
• Optical/DWDM deployment project experience of Ciena and/or Infinera networks is desirable
• Relevant experience in the IT/Telecom and/or Datacenter industry
• Good knowledge of networking fundamentals
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks.
• Excellent time management and problem-solving skills
• Ability to communicate at the executive level.
• Experience with Jira/Confluence & MS Office suite
Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field
• SCRUM practitioner certification or equivalent
• ITIL V4 foundation desirable