Manager of Regional MCN Deployments NSA Team - Network Practice Office (NPO

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At Motorola Solutions, we believe that everything starts with our people. We’re a global close-knit community, united by the relentless pursuit to help keep people safer everywhere. We build and connect technologies to help protect people, property and places. Our solutions foster the collaboration that’s critical for safer communities, safer schools, safer hospitals, safer businesses, and ultimately, safer nations. Connect with a career that matters, and help us build a safer future.

Motorola Solutions is a world leader in professional mobile communications systems with an impressive heritage of technological innovations and a global base of installed systems. The group’s main business is the implementation of mission critical digital mobile communication systems for Government & Public Safety Communications customers. Convergence of LMR and broadband networks, new requirements such as live mobile video transmission, software solutions providing real-time intelligence, and Next Generation 911 are transforming public safety communications systems.

Our systems engineering teams design and integrate these wireless networks and command centers enabling voice and end-to-end IP-based data solutions.

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This candidate will preferrably reside in PST or CST Time Zones. The Manager of Regional MCN Deployments NSA Team - Network Practice Office (NPO) provides leadership, strategic direction, and technical oversight to a team of regional Network Solutions Architects (NSAs). This role acts as a key leadership liaison, collaborating on design standards and best practices alongside other regional leads, the Network Practice Office (NPO), and other North American IP Network Subject Matter Experts.

The Manager must be highly self-motivated, possess the ability to lead autonomously, drive team accountability, and ensure the regional team continuously updates their skill sets to align with evolving technologies and mission-critical standards.

• Team Leadership & Development:
  Lead, mentor, and manage a regional team of NSAs. Establish and execute training regimens for territory-level engineers to ensure the team acquires higher-level skills in network design, mobile backhaul, and security.
• Deployment Oversight:
  Oversee the design and integration of ASTRO P25 LMR networks with customer enterprise applications across the region. Ensure the successful deployment of complex, unique LAN/WAN designs using MSI and third-party vendor equipment.
• Escalation & Troubleshooting Management:
  Direct and support the team in assisting post-sale engineering groups with troubleshooting complex network and mobile backhaul issues.
• Regional Design Guidance:
  Ensure the team provides high-quality design guidance on customers’ transport network solutions to support services for P25-LMR, LTE, Smart Public Safety, and enterprise applications. Oversee the delivery of design specifications for layer-1 and layer-2 transport media, including fiber and microwave.
• Project Strategy & Presentation:
  Collaborate and assist with regional bid strategies and project deployments. Additionally, as required review and present technically compelling system designs to high-level customer stakeholders and pre/post-sale engineering leadership.
• Operational Excellence:
  Ensure standard reference designs, including high-level and detailed network diagrams, are rigorously documented.
• Security & Standards Compliance:
  Oversee network infrastructure audits and ensure team adherence to testing best practices so that backhaul networks meet mission-critical Public Safety standards.
• Strategic Vendor Evaluation:
  Partner with other SMEs to evaluate third-party vendor equipment and make strategic recommendations on future mobile backhaul technology investments.

• Strategic Consultation Leadership:
  Serve as the regional liaison and internal consultant, ensuring the NSA team acts as premier subject matter experts across the region.
• Design Standards &
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Direct regional collaboration with the Network Practice Office and IP Network SMEs to define, champion, and enforce unified…