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Company

Telstra

Location

Sidney - Australia

Job type

Full-Time

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Employment Type
Permanent
Closing Date
1 Nov 2022 11:59pm
Job Title
Network Planning Specialist
Job Summary
The Network Planning Specialist plays a key role in supporting the planning of capacity and deployment of specific infrastructure platforms, to provide end-to-end services that deliver an outstanding customer experience. Having a continuous learning mindset and strong analytical skills will be core to your role, as you continue building technical expertise in more complex Network Planning environments, to ensure that our customers have the largest and fastest network coverage and service.
Job Description
An excellent opportunity has become available for a highly motivated and passionate Network planning specialist (Data and Reporting) to join the Fibre Asset Planning Team.
The Opportunity
The Network Planning Specialist plays a key role in supporting the planning of capacity and deployment of specific infrastructure platforms, to provide end-to-end services that deliver an outstanding customer experience.
This role focuses on the interrogation of data sets to solve problems and, the creation of network and performance reporting for the fibre planning team. You collaborate with your colleagues to drive data led decision making across Telstra. By providing the right insights, in the right way at the right time, you are central to our success.
Having a continuous learning mindset and strong data analytical skills will be core to your role, as you continue building technical expertise in more complex Network Planning environments, as well as supporting the planning team with data insights.
Key Responsibilities
  • Probe, source and manipulate large data sets to resolve issues or develop a solution to enable business decisions
  • Perform descriptive analysis and prepare data for use in predictive/prescriptive modelling
  • Define business problems, assist with the development of hypotheses, undertake relevant reporting, summarise the insights and make recommendations for action
  • Draw insights from data that you use to tell compelling stories that help drive data led decisions across Telstra
  • Scrutinise data for quality and accuracy, and create final synthesised data set(s) for analysis
  • Share insights and dashboards with stakeholders and coach them to elevate their data driven decisions
  • Apply knowledge of software such as SQL, Tableau/PowerBI and/or Python to analyse and visualise data from across the organisation
  • Leverage tried and tested methodologies and tools to develop solutions, identify constraints and opportunities for improvement
  • Working with reporting teams to expose metrics and other measures using Telstra datasets for management and executive team consumption
  • Continuously build and apply knowledge in network planning approaches, tools and methodologies, and knowledge of Telstra technology platforms
  • Contribute to the identification of triggers, ensuring network assets are deployed in the most cost-effective and efficient method
  • Analyse network demand and capacity to generate insights in support of network capital investment recommendations, to meet defined growth and planning objectives, corporate budgeting constraints, and infrastructure characteristics
  • Seek input from more experienced team members, gather data, use domain knowledge and analytical thinking to identify solutions to resolve specific issues or risks, in line with quality standards
  • Participate in continuous improvement initiatives
  • Apply sound inter-personal and communication skills to communicate with team members and relevant internal stakeholders, to deliver on agreed project outcomes
Accountabilities
  • Assist in the management of fibre planning data sets and tools.
  • Creation and maintenance of fibre planning team reports, both regular and ad-hoc.
  • Analyse relevant large data sets to draw insights that can be shared with the Fibre Planning team.
  • Assist in the analysis, modelling and curating of small to large data sets to support fibre network planning requirements.
  • Assist with the development of processes and tools to improve accuracy and efficiency of network analysis.
  • Support strategic, high volume fibre planning studies
  • Plan, manage and deploy fibre infrastructure as directed.
Experience, Skills, and Qualifications
Must have
  • Attention to detail
  • Data Management
  • Data Mining
  • Data Manipulation
  • Data Modelling
  • Data Visualization
  • Decision Making
  • Confluence
  • Able to work as part of a team, and as an individual contributor
  • Data manipulation software e.g. SQL, Tableau/PowerBI and/or Python
Desirable
  • Understanding of fibre network infrastructure
  • Fibre Network planning
  • Laravel web development
  • MapInfo Professional skills
  • Relevant engineering or IT qualification or similar experience
  • Able to manage Stakeholders within and external to InfraCo
  • Programming experience (C, Mapbasic)
  • Database management and administration (PostgreSQL)
  • Extensive software version control (SVN) experience (Git/SVN, management of code history, branching and feature development)
  • BitBucket
  • Geospatial analytical skills (gaining insights from Telstra network data)
Our perks & benefits:
  • Work-life integration - we understand life happens when you're busy making other plans, so we offer flexibility around where, and when you work.
  • 16 weeks paid parental leave for primary and secondary carers.
  • Professional development program.
  • An epic (free) Telstra mobile phone plan.
  • Laptop/Device allowance renewed every 2 years.
  • Purchased Annual Leave scheme.
  • Discounted Telstra products and services.
We fully embrace flexibility and choice at Telstra and it’s as unique as you. We believe every role can flex in some way and encourage you to work where, when, and how you are most engaged, safe, and productive. Talk to us about how a role could be flexible for you!
This role requires the successful candidate to be vaccinated against Covid-19, to ensure the safety and wellbeing of our people and customers. However, please speak to us if you have any questions about this based on your individual circumstances.
On the cusp of the next technological transformation in the digital world, Telstra has and continues to be at the forefront of local and global innovation. Come disrupt and lead the industry as we build the networks for the future and push the boundaries of what’s possible with technology.
We're after the right blend of experience and enthusiasm and look for cultural add, rather than cultural fit. We benefit from the unique gifts and backgrounds of each person in our business and push for diversity of thought in all we do.
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