Applied Research Specialist - Programmable Networks

Responsibilities

• Leading and managing one or more related research projects and activities comprising of matrixed resources both inside and outside BT, including university students and vendors.
• Proactively leading engagement with working level stakeholders across the organisation as well as external partners as appropriate.
• Proactive engagement with the relevant business units to downstream strategic technologies for commercial realisation.
• Domain expert responsible for maintaining expertise in a specific technical domain.
• Responsible for intellectual property creation, managing patent filing in their domain and supporting IPR exploitation where appropriate.
• Accountable for defining and performing research in a specific domain (i.e. End to End Research Platform) or area that is typically unknown, complex, high impact and high value across multiple domains.
• Responsible for authoring thought leadership technical papers, capturing intellectual property.
• Supervision of professionals, graduates and post-graduate student placements and secondments.
• Depending on business needs, may manage Research Specialists, Professionals or other Team members.
• Technical domain expert:
  Deep technical or domain expertise. They continually develop their expertise in a key technical area so they are recognised as a technical expert in that domain.

• Strong academic record in technology specialism with post-graduate qualification(s) (PhD or equivalent research experience).
• Expert communicator:
  Regularly presents to peers and managers about their research and area of technical expertise.
• Experienced in open innovation:
  Skilled in patenting, technical publications, conference presentations etc.
• Storytelling with data: strong skills in building the case for change, drawing on data and analytical techniques where appropriate, and communicating this to business audiences.
• Concept Evaluation: ability to spot relevant innovations, horizon scanning, determine relevance for the business, develop an effective conceptualisation and build trials to test the concept.

• Network Engineering
• Network and IT hardware configuration / Troubleshooting
• S/W development / API design and implementation
• Test planning, design, scripting, execution, automation and documentation
• Orchestration
• Virtualisation / Cloud computing
• Collaboration research testbed design and run experience
• Problem-solving, attention to detail, and data analysis.
• Hands-on lab experience
• First and /or Second line technical support experience
• Cybersecurity
• TM Forum catalyst
• Significant delivery: evidence of significant business impact through delivery of research
• Stakeholder management: evidence of managing project stakeholders across the business at a variety of grade and seniority levels
• Innovative Thinker: ability to spot and identify new innovations and act to bring them in and capitalise and create value
• Commercial Applicability: understanding the business case principals around relevant innovations and the real value to the business through value proposition build
• Excellent awareness of industry trends, future direction and opportunities
• Self-starter, pro-actively working with minimal guidance
• Problem solving, intellectually curious, comfortable taking ownership and responsibility
• Ownership and responsibility

BT Group was the world's first telco and our heritage in the sector is unrivalled. As home to several of the UK's most recognised and cherished brands - BT, EE, Openreach and Plusnet, we have always played a critical role in creating the future, and we have reached an inflection point in the transformation of our business.

Over the next two years, we will complete the UK's largest and most successful digital infrastructure project - connecting more than 25 million premises to full fibre broadband. Together with our heavy investment in 5G, we play a central role in revolutionising how people connect with each other. While we are through the most capital-intensive phase of our fibre investment, meaning we can reward our shareholders for their commitment and patience, we are absolutely focused on how we organise ourselves in the best way to serve our customers…