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Job Title: Head of Network Automation - Telco industry
Location: Remote - with occasional travel to office for workshops which usually take place once every 3 weeks.
Salary/Rate: Up to £795 a day Inside IR35
Start Date: August 2025
Job Type: Initial 3-month contract with scope to extend
Company Introduction
We are looking for an experienced Head of Network Automation to join our client in the Telecommunications industry. This is a leadership role where direct management of several tech teams will be required.
Job Responsibilities/Objectives
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Explore new libraries, opensource tools & adapters
- Encourage data-driven decision-making and sprint planning
- Work across both fixed and mobile network
Required Skills/Experience
- Strong experience working 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
- Experienced individual with software engineering background
- Fixed mobile/ b2b experience
- Experienced leader
Skills:
- Netconf, APIs, XML, JSON, Jinja 2, Python, JavaScript
- Cisco NSO, Ansible, Net Miko, Docker
- Workflow automation Itential IAP, Appian, Resolve
- Knowledge of TMF/Tosca/MEF
- YANG/TOSCA for service modelling
- CI/CD/CT - GITLAB, Robot, Selenium, Cucumber, Veracode, Sonar cube
- Familiarity with AI/ML - understanding concepts
