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What you'll be doing...

Verizon is looking for a dynamic, entrepreneurial, highly motivated Principal Engineer for developing the NaaS (Network As A Service) & AI initiatives in the Technology and Product development organization. The position will be responsible for Technology development, solution design and managing software development for product offerings in Network & Security integrated offerings. This Role will require a strong entrepreneurial attitude who can ideate, collaborate, design, solution, and architect NaaS product solutions working with internally developed solutions and vendor solutions. The candidate should be able to work in an agile environment across stakeholder organizations (including other Software development teams, Product Management, Security & Network Operations, Network design teams, back office systems, Customers, Sales and partner’s). The role requires strong background in software development and product development and delivery for enterprise customers

The person as Technical Lead Architect , in this position will be responsible for driving a technical team consisting of software engineering functions for any feature development and system maintenance.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following:

• Responsible for developing an Network & Security product portals and software solutions

• Partnering with stakeholder organizations to define and align on product roadmaps, priority and delivery dates

• Working with the product and delivery teams to collaboratively drive new solutions, proof of concepts and help drive the architectural direction of the solution.

• Being a recognized technology leader in the network and security product portfolio and drive a technology lead path to grow revenue by implementing NaaS solutions

• Acting as a cross functional technology leader in driving build vs buy decision for product development and product launches

• Identifying new opportunities for integrating network and security services to enhance and differentiate Verizon product offering

• Developing and owning Solution architecture and Delivery Team’s backlog, ensures user stories are written and acceptance criteria are met, and you’ll demo the working features internally and externally.

• Collaborating with stakeholders and development teams (internal and external) to ensure successful implementation of new or enhanced functionality for the product.

• Managing, mentoring and developing a strong technical team that manages product engineering functions for security solutions on collaboration with product and operations stake holders develop a product consolidation strategy for security products operating on legacy platforms as new product solutions are developed.

What we’re looking for...

You will need to have:

• Bachelor's degree or four or more years of work experience.

• Six or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through one or a combination of work and/or military experience, or specialized training.

• Willingness to travel up to 25% of the time.

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• Possesses Technical knowledge of complex systems and architecture concepts and ensures project teams are effectively employing appropriate software design techniques.

• Strong software development and delivery background with experience in delivering public cloud based solutions

• Strong technical knowledge and experience in developing/migrating solution using AWS echo systems, Angular Frameworks, and containers

• Good understanding & industry expertise to provide systems perspective and knowledge of compliance frameworks

• Good working knowledge of Network , Security and cloud based services like Private and Public IP Networks, Managed Services, SASE, Zero Trust, DDoS, Security Gateways, WAFs, etc.

• Strong experience developing accessible user portals for demanding customers.

• Experience leading and collaborating across a set of cross functional delivery initiatives

• Experience working with the business and customers on gathering requirements, documenting requirements, managing product backlog, writing user stories, and working with development and vendors to deliver on the product plan and vision.

• Experience working closely with development teams and delivering new functionality.

• Excellent communication skills & lead discussions with product Management and customers to identify new market opportunities and use cases.

• Analyze business results using key financial metrics including volumes, costs, and profitability to ensure offers support customer needs while also achieving business case targets such as revenue and margin.

• Responsible for leading the innovation, design, development, testing and deployment of software products. Leads the entire product life cycle from the innovation phase, starting from the idea being conceived to the deployment and user acceptance testing phase. Assigned to be the technical leader for complex/highly visible projects that support strategic evolution of deliverables. Conceptualizes and develops resolutions to complex problems that require the use of creativity and makes decisions that impact projects and staff members. Work is accomplished without direction.

• Experience leading the technical strategy and development of products and platforms.

• Ability to establish technical requirements and viable architecture based on business requirements.

• Experience working with vendors to ensure ongoing support and development of platform capabilities.

• Work with the Engineering leadership to support emerging technology evaluation and innovation.

• Exposure to managing capital/expense budget to deliver features and functionalities to meet the customer's needs.

• Experience mentoring junior engineers to deliver customer focused, agile driven solutions.

• Interface with the business, network, and device technology teams to identify and define highly scalable and maintainable architecture that support both current and future generations of products.

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every “even better” qualification listed above.

Where you’ll be working

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and a minimum eight assigned office days per month that will be set by your manager.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Equal Employment Opportunity

Verizon is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to veteran status, disability or other legally protected characteristics.

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