Distinguished Engineer (MTD)

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Work with senior leaders to shape the go-forward vision for the organization, drive thought leadership, business focus, and innovation across the organization
• Drive roadmaps to meet business goals, work with vendors and partners on the successful strategy, planning, and implementation of critical tooling and platforms
• Demonstrate strong technology roadmap influence within the organization to meet business goals; evaluate new technologies for adoption across the enterprise
• Attract, develop and motivate top talent; teach, mentor, grow, and advise other domain experts; mentor senior engineers on how to grow their careers and expand their sphere of influence
• Understand and articulate the value creation and business proposition to teams and functional partners
• Participate in and lead learning activities within the organization
• Promote and facilitate collaboration within teams and across organizations and connect teams facing similar challenges and problems to encourage consistency
• Attend conferences to learn and apply new technologies and demonstrate technical industry leadership through speaking engagements and publications
• Motivate and mentor more junior engineers to become the natural technology leader of the organization
• Promote customer focus throughout technology roadmaps; field questions from product, project, and support teams
• Evangelize successful usage of tooling and technologies across the organization and enterprise
• Actively engage in industry innovation and direction by learning new technologies and best practices through reading, tutorials, networking, and videos
• Serve as the final escalation point for technology issues across organizations

Requirements

• Master's degree in Engineering
• 16+ years of engineering work experience
• 16+ years of project management work experience
• Extensive industry experience in network architectures, and technologies
• Ability to read, write, speak and understand English and effectively communicate complex problems
• Ability to perform duties in a fast-paced environment, learn new technology quickly, and self-study new technologies
• Ability to create a business case encompassing business and technology requirements
• Ability to communicate technology to non-technical senior business leaders
• Expert knowledge in network/platform/system design, architectures, protocols and relevant topologies, TCP/IP, IPv4 and IPv6, OSI Model, network devices, network applications and servers
• Demonstrated some telecommunication industry leadership
• Self-driven individual with the ability to deliver major projects with minimal supervision

Nice to Have

• Industry and vendor specific certifications and training (Cisco, Juniper, Alcatel-Lucent, etc.)

Qualifications

• Master's degree in Engineering
• 16+ years of engineering and project management experience

Benefits & Perks

• Comprehensive pay and benefits package supporting all aspects of well-being
• Base pay generally between $155,430.00 and $275,990.00, with potential for bonuses and incentive-based compensation
• Opportunities for career growth and advancement
• Work environment in an office setting