Head of Network Automation - Telco industry

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Job Title: Head of Network Automation - Telco industry

Location: Remote - with occasional travel to office for workshops which usually take place once every 3 weeks.

Salary/Rate: Up to £795 a day Inside IR35

Start Date: August 2025

Job Type: Initial 3-month contract with scope to extend

Company Introduction

We are looking for an experienced Head of Network Automation to join our client in the Telecommunications industry. This is a leadership role where direct management of several tech teams will be required.

Job Responsibilities/Objectives

• Recruit, develop and lead multiple development squads across internal and external resources
• Assess use cases in backlog, estimate MVP and sizing effort to ensure team resources are sized appropriately with the right skills.
• Work alongside SA to do strategic use case design and design tactical solution
• LLD, develop and create workflows (when required)
• Approve Code reviews before merge (when required)
• Internal/External stakeholder engagement (including vendors)
• Set standards - coding, ways of working, documentation, for 30+ developers and provide thought leadership to wider development community
• Encourage close loop automation across Plan, Provide & Assure ensuring Automation Silos are broken.
• Set development and SA targets
• High level shaping of tickets; size ticket and allocating to squads
• Explore new libraries, opensource tools & adapters
• Encourage data-driven decision-making and sprint planning
• Work across both fixed and mobile network
  
  

• Strong experience working in a senior developer role, ideally in a large Telco or IT company
• Experience working in Networks or IT network transformations
• Proven track record of delivering high quality code and leading development squads
• Experienced individual with software engineering background
• Fixed mobile/ b2b experience
• Experienced leader
  
  

• Netconf, APIs, XML, JSON, Jinja 2, Python, JavaScript
• Cisco NSO, Ansible, Net Miko, Docker
• Workflow automation Itential IAP, Appian, Resolve
• Knowledge of TMF/Tosca/MEF
• YANG/TOSCA for service modelling
• CI/CD/CT - GITLAB, Robot, Selenium, Cucumber, Veracode, Sonar cube
• Familiarity with AI/ML - understanding concepts

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology

• Industries

  Software Development

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