col-wideJob Description:
Hewlett Packard Enterprise advances the way people live and work. We bring together the brightest minds to create breakthrough technology solutions, helping our customers make their mark on the world.
**The 5G Chapter Lead **is an essential role in the 5G GTC organization, managing the world-class team of 5G experts who are delivering HPE and partner 5G Core Network Functions, deploying and customizing the 5G CI/CD pipeline for customers all over the globe. 5G Chapter Lead is involved in the technical pre-sale activity (defining of the solution architecture, providing effort estimation, creating the scope of work) and delivery activity (contributing in the creation of HLD and SoW, managing the customer, managing the delivery team to fulfill HPE obligations, handling of the escalations) in close collaboration with different stake holders (customers, partners, HPE GP, HPE 4G/Orchestration GTC, HPE product teams).
The 5G Global Technology Center (GTC) is looking for experienced delivery people to join our rapidly growing cutting-edge team to help us fulfill our mission - to secure HPE CMS as the industry leader in 5G by delivering HPE cloud-native 5G and HPE Core Stack solutions effectively and efficiently being the first among our competitors to fully embrace aaS and the CI/CD delivery model and paving the road to Open 5G.
The 5G Chapter Lead is an essential role in the 5G GTC organization, managing the world-class team of 15-20 5G experts who are delivering HPE and partner 5G Core Network Functions, deploying and customizing the 5G CI/CD pipeline for customers all over the globe. 5G Chapter Lead is involved in the technical pre-sale activity (defining of the solution architecture, providing effort estimation, creating the scope of work) and delivery activity (contributing in the creation of HLD and SoW, managing the customer, managing the delivery team to fulfill HPE obligations, handling of the escalations) in close collaboration with different stake holders (customers, partners, HPE GP, HPE 4G/Orchestration GTC, HPE product teams).
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**Responsibilities**:
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- Manages the 5G team of up to 15-20 technical consultants.
- Owns 5G delivery model and assures consistency in delivery approach across all projects.
- Deep involvement in technical presale activity to define architecture, scope of work and corresponding effort estimates.
- Managing the delivery to the end customer including design, customer and escalations with the objective to fulfill the customer requirements as per defined project milestones.
- Interacts with HPE 5G internal stakeholders: 4G/5G product management (enhancement requests, Customer's commitment follow-up), 4G/5G R&D, 5G Support, 4G GTC (CI/CD & automation for legacy 2/3/4G scope) and Orchestration GTC (for Service Director delivery and integration).
- Contributes to partners & customers' relationship with partner manager and local CMS team.
- Mentors and encourages skill development of project team members.
- Provides detail performance review input and development recommendations for team members.
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Education and Experience Required:
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- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent.
- Minimum 10 years experience in solution architecture design and/or project delivery and/or R&D.
- Telecom and networking experience (4G & 5G Mobile Core Networks, 3GPP standards), Cloud native experience (Kubernetes and associated tools, CI/CD, DevOps and Agile methodologies).
- Previous experience in pre-sales activities is appreciated (responding RFPs, performing PoCs, estimating efforts and building quotations and proposals).
- Previous experience in the delivery activities.
- Experience managing and growing a team of 10+ direct reports.
- Languages: excellent written and spoken English is a must. Others are a plus.
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Knowledge and Skills:
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- People leadership skills and experience with the ability to self-manage, direct and mentor technical leadership team, and to enforce direction in a matrix environment.- Cloud native experience (Kubernetes and associated tools, CI/CD, DevOps and Agile methodologies) is a plus.
- Excellent customer facing skills, integrity and confidence with good presentation skills; ability to gain trust of clients and act in a mutually beneficial manner.
- Demonstrates ownership and assumes responsibility to drive resolution of issues.
- Broad understanding of evolving standards and technologies.
- Ability to work in flexible schedule when required to interact with teams in different time zones and managing the escalations.
- Travel at short notice availability required (up to 50%).
- Excellent verbal and written English language communications skills.
Join us and make your mark!
We offer:
- A competitive salary and extensive social benefits
- Diverse and dynamic work environment
- Work-life balance and support for career development
- An amazing life inside the element! Want to know more about it?
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