Head of Automation Development
About the role
As Head of Automation Development, you will lead the CTO automation development teams across Fixed, Mobile & B2B networks. You will lead, scale, and develop a team of over 30 developers across internal and external resources, ensuring best practice and code quality is maintained whilst we scale up delivery. You will work with product teams, OSS architecture, and business analysts to ensure maximum value is delivered across our scaled scrum teams.
Key Accountabilities
· Recruit, develop and lead multiple development squads across internal and external resources
· Assess use cases in backlog, estimate MVP and sizing effort to ensure team resources are sized appropriately with the right skills.
· Work alongside SA to do strategic use case design and design tactical solution with strategic outcome in mind
· LLD, develop and create workflows (when required)
· Approve Code reviews before merge (when required)
· Internal/External stakeholder engagement (including vendors)
· Set standards - coding, ways of working, documentation, for 30+ developers and provide thought leadership to wider development community across NSE etc.
· Encourage close loop automation across Plan, Provide & Assure ensuring Automation Silos are broken.
· Set development and SA targets
· High level shaping of tickets; size ticket and allocating to squads
· Communicate updates to key stakeholders
· Help stakeholders to think strategically
· Explore new libraries, opensource tools, adapters that helps us achieve our strategic objective in more efficient ways
· Contribute to team’s roadmap and strategy
· Develop & mentor your teams and arrange training where necessary
· Encourage data-driven decision-making and sprint planning
· Work across both fixed and mobile network and create synergies and consolidation where possible
Experience
· Multiple years of experience in a senior developer role, ideally in a large Telco or IT company
· Experience working in Networks or IT network transformations
· Proven track record of delivering high quality code and leading development squads
Personal characteristics:
· Team play- We win and lose as a team, we support each other by providing honest feedback to improve our collective performance and learn from our mistakes.
· Agile – Accommodate changing requirements throughout the development process
· Deliver Value- Customer satisfaction through early and continuous delivery
· Attention to detail and Analytical/logical problem solver
· Good documentation and communication skills
· Self-organizing and ability to pick up next task independently
· Comfortable working as part of team, often with remote team members
Skills:
· Netconf, API’s, XML, JSON, Jinja 2, Python, JavaScript
· Cisco NSO, Ansible, Net Miko, Docker
· Workflow automation Itential IAP, Appian, Resolve
· Knowledge of telecom networks, technologies, and standards e.g TMF/Tosca/MEF
· YANG/TOSCA for service modelling
· CI/CD/CT – GITLAB, Robot, Selenium, Cucumber, Veracode, Sonar cube
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