Sr Manager Solution Engineering

You will be responsible for designing and deploying end-to-end solutions across multivendor telecom ecosystems. This will involve ensuring seamless integration of technologies from vendors such as Cisco, Nokia, Huawei, Juniper, and others. Your expertise in Tx, IP, SD-WAN, RAN, Core, and Cloud will play a crucial role in driving revenue growth by delivering interoperable, vendor-agnostic solutions tailored to complex customer needs. - Architect and defend solutions that integrate heterogeneous vendor platforms (e.g., routers, switches, SDN controllers, OSS/BSS). - Ensure compatibility and performance across multivendor environments, addressing interoperability challenges. - Lead PoCs (Proof of Concepts) to validate cross-vendor solutions. - Partner with sales, engineering, and vendor teams to align solutions with customer requirements and industry standards. - Serve as a bridge between customers, internal teams, and third-party vendors to resolve technical conflicts. - Craft competitive multivendor RFP responses for global customers, highlighting cost/performance trade-offs. - Advise leadership on vendor selection strategies to optimize TCO (Total Cost of Ownership). - Design vendor-agnostic automation frameworks for network management (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, custom APIs). Desired Skills & Qualifications: - Hands-on experience with 2 vendor stacks. - Knowledge of standardized protocols for multivendor interoperability. - Expertise in 2 domains: IP/MPLS, SD-WAN, 5G RAN, Core (4G/5G), or Cloud-Native Telco. - Ability to negotiate with vendors and articulate trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders. - Prepare presentations for RFP response and Defence.,