Solutions Design Owner

You want more out of a career. A place to share your ideas freely - even if they're 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 begins. In crisis and in celebration, we come together - lifting our communities and building trust in how we show up, everywhere & always. Want in? Join the V Team Life.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Helping to identify, analyze, and evaluate strategies and initiatives that will deliver significant impact to the business priorities

• Collaborating with other team architects, project managers, and other stakeholders to align technology solutions with business objectives for the sales solutions and proposals for Telematics providers. Must be able to work with a diverse group and serve as the golden source (or Yoda) as a tiebreaker in technical solutioning.

• Developing Proofs of Concept (POC) to explore and validate new solutions and implementation approaches with the product and IT teams within Verizon.

• Participating and helping to lead and direct customer network and systems testing to ensure solution quality and alignment with user needs.

• Documenting the overall technical solution architecture and requirements, and presenting demonstrations to external customers, key stakeholders and executive management.

• Serving as a technical mentor and subject matter expert within the organization, providing peer reviews and fostering a culture of knowledge sharing.

• Partner with PMO team members to ensure solutions are within scope and will enable on-time delivery of all engagements.

• Continuously enhancing your skill set and product knowledge to remain at the forefront of technology and industry trends. This includes pursuing relevant certifications, attending product and network training, actively engaging with technical literature, and gaining hands-on experience.

What we're looking for...

You'll 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.
• Experience designing, architecting, and developing interfaces and solutions and infrastructure for scalable, distributed networks and IT interfaces.
• Experience with broad technology concepts including: software defined networking, 5G network interaction, API's, information security and collaboration tools.
• Experience effectively communicating and discussing complex business and technical topics to all levels of the organization and external customers.
• Excellent analytical, problem solving skills to convert complex product requirements to elegant technical solutions.
• Must have the ability to partner with all parties, understand perspectives and balance Verizon needs with customer needs.

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

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or other relevant engineering disciplines.
• Two or more years of experience developing and implementing business strategies.
• Two or more years of experience incorporating customer focused design thinking into problem solving.

Benefits

Our benefits are designed to help you move forward in your career, and in areas of your life outside of Verizon. From health and wellness benefit options including: medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability, basic life insurance, supplemental life insurance, AD&D insurance, identity theft protection, pet insurance and group home & auto insurance. We also offer a matched 401(k) savings plan, stock incentive programs, up to 8 company paid holidays per year and up to 6 personal days per year, parental leave, adoption assistance and tuition assistance, plus other incentives, we've got you covered with our award-winning total rewards package. Newly hired employees receive up to 15 days of vacation per year, which grows with additional service. For part-timers, your coverage will vary as you may be eligible for some of these benefits depending on your individual circumstances.

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