Technical Lead – Fixed Digital Network Products

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Position: Technical Lead – Fixed Digital Network Products

Location(s): Birmingham, Leeds, London, Manchester, Motherwell, Peterborough, Reading

Job Family: Digital & Technology

Job Type: Full Time

Posted Date: 12-May-2026

Key Responsibilities

  • Provide technical leadership across the Fixed product domain, ensuring alignment to digital end‑state architecture and TMF‑aligned Lead‑to‑Cash and service orchestration processes.
  • Guide technical design and operational decisions for Broadband, TV over XGSPON, DOCSIS and other Fixed network services.
  • Quality‑assure technical designs, workflow automation and orchestration delivered through tools such as Itential, NSO, Appian and other internal tools.
  • Actively participate in testing, proof‑of‑concepts and validating designs on SDN controllers such as Cisco NSO, providing actionable guidance to delivery teams.

Cloud & Automation Enablement

  • Build, operate and optimise Fixed digital network products using cloud platforms.
  • Identify opportunities to leverage automation, AI/ML and generative AI to create network plans, design artifacts or accelerate service delivery.
  • Contribute to or lead initiatives on dark NOCs, closed‑loop automation and proactive operations.

Delivery Oversight & Supplier Governance

  • Lead supplier delivery teams through KPIs and metrics, ensuring alignment with technical standards, security and domain strategy.
  • Oversee the adoption of DevSecOps tooling and CI/CD practices across the Fixed domain.
  • Drive cross‑team collaboration to ensure workflows, service orders and orchestration align with TMF frameworks.

Qualifications

  • Strong network background with hands‑on experience in Fixed telecom protocols and standards (ERPS).
  • Experience in network automation across plan/design/build and provisioning.
  • Network knowledge and certification (CCNA/CCNP, Juniper JNCP, Nokia) advantageous.
  • Experience in DevOps tooling, CI/CD and modern software engineering practices.
  • Knowledge/familiarity of TM Forum framework for Naas.
  • Experience leveraging generative AI to create network plans or design artifacts.
  • Experience working on or delivering dark NOCs and closed‑loop automation.
  • Familiarity with TSA regulations and measures.

Virgin Media O2 is an equal opportunities employer and we are working hard to remove bias and barriers for our people and candidates.

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Job Description:

Position: Technical Lead – Fixed Digital Network Products

Location(s): Birmingham, Leeds, London, Manchester, Motherwell, Peterborough, Reading

Job Family: Digital & Technology

Job Type: Full Time

Posted Date: 12-May-2026

Key Responsibilities

  • Provide technical leadership across the Fixed product domain, ensuring alignment to digital end‑state architecture and TMF‑aligned Lead‑to‑Cash and service orchestration processes.
  • Guide technical design and operational decisions for Broadband, TV over XGSPON, DOCSIS and other Fixed network services.
  • Quality‑assure technical designs, workflow automation and orchestration delivered through tools such as Itential, NSO, Appian and other internal tools.
  • Actively participate in testing, proof‑of‑concepts and validating designs on SDN controllers such as Cisco NSO, providing actionable guidance to delivery teams.

Cloud & Automation Enablement

  • Build, operate and optimise Fixed digital network products using cloud platforms.
  • Identify opportunities to leverage automation, AI/ML and generative AI to create network plans, design artifacts or accelerate service delivery.
  • Contribute to or lead initiatives on dark NOCs, closed‑loop automation and proactive operations.

Delivery Oversight & Supplier Governance

  • Lead supplier delivery teams through KPIs and metrics, ensuring alignment with technical standards, security and domain strategy.
  • Oversee the adoption of DevSecOps tooling and CI/CD practices across the Fixed domain.
  • Drive cross‑team collaboration to ensure workflows, service orders and orchestration align with TMF frameworks.

Qualifications

  • Strong network background with hands‑on experience in Fixed telecom protocols and standards (ERPS).
  • Experience in network automation across plan/design/build and provisioning.
  • Network knowledge and certification (CCNA/CCNP, Juniper JNCP, Nokia) advantageous.
  • Experience in DevOps tooling, CI/CD and modern software engineering practices.
  • Knowledge/familiarity of TM Forum framework for Naas.
  • Experience leveraging generative AI to create network plans or design artifacts.
  • Experience working on or delivering dark NOCs and closed‑loop automation.
  • Familiarity with TSA regulations and measures.

Virgin Media O2 is an equal opportunities employer and we are working hard to remove bias and barriers for our people and candidates.

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Posted: May 17th, 2026