Associate Director

You want more out of a career. A place to share your ideas freely even if theyre daring or different. Where the true you can learn grow and thrive. At Verizon we power and empower how people live work and play by connecting them to what brings them joy. We do what we love driving innovation creativity and impact in the world. Our V Team is a community of people who anticipate lead and believe that listening is where learning crisis and in celebration we come together lifting our communities and building trust in how we show up everywhere & always. Want in Join the #VTeamLife.

Lead a data science and development team supporting network applications that monitor and improve the performance of RAN network (20%); Partner with the AI&D community to define industry standards for AI led/autonomous network (10%); Build data models that will drive automation of network assurance performance and planning activities (10%); Partner with the Network Performance teams to manage project prioritization and work with global delivery teams (including vendors) to deliver the program and projects meeting the timeline quality and budget (10%); Adopt and strengthen agile SOE practices (examples: adopt SOE tech stack reduce backlog reusable components code standardization test automation) (10%); Improve delivery management and automation (test driven config/development) and increase feature delivery throughput (drive process improvement reduce cycle time) (10%); Lead the delivery of Systems Reliability Engineering (SRE) product journeys across platforms to capture customer or user feedback to improve user experience (10%); Engage in technical discussion to build solutions that can scale and are resilient to meet agreed upon service levels (10%); Drive the adoption of analytics in decision making build business cases and translate findings into practical business implications (5%); Demonstrate and encourage on-going performance coaching to refresh elevate and unlock talent and execute on Development Plans/Performance Improvement Plans (5%).

Bachelors or foreign equivalent degree in Mathematics Statistics Physics Engineering Computer Science or a related fieldand 6 years of progressive post-baccalaureate experience in the job offered or as a software engineer member technical staff IT/system analyst or consultant or in a related/similar position working on end-to-end systems analysis/design applications development/architecture database analysis/design orquantitative modeling statistics or data mining. Experience therein to include 6 years using C/C Java React JS Spring Boot and Python; 4 years using DevSecOps RAN Network Oracle or Druid Cassandra or Postgres databases and data science tools such as Tableau Grafana Domino or Big Query. Hybrid role ability to work from home.

Must Reference: Job code SHKATS-W.

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