Delivery Market Lead-Technical SME

Delivery Market Lead - Technical SME

Fusion Solutions is looking for a Delivery Market Lead / Technical SME for Ericsson (Carrier: AT&T) in multiple locations. Positions are customer-facing as either a delivery market lead or a technical SME.

Locations:
St Louis, MO;
Overland Park KS; NYC, NY;
Seattle, WA;
Denver, CO;
Phoenix, AZ;
Baltimore, MD;
Bloomington, MN;
Philadelphia, PA

Pay Rate: $72/hr

Start Date:

March 2024

Duration: 18 months with extensions

# of SMEs needed: 10

Scope of Work:
All the criteria should be met:

• Minimum ten (10) years' experience with BSEE/BSCS or applicable experience. Recent experience in radio network design, implementation and/or tuning/optimization systems is required.
• Leadership experience is required for five+ projects. Two projects must be the leader for all technical activities in a large scale (major metropolitan area or statewide geographic area) and responsibilities must include technical organization and oversight of work and demonstrated excellence in communications with team, project manager, and customer.
• Experience in working with different services including 5G , Massive MIMO, mmWave, LAA (License Assisted Access), 4G LTE, IOT, CBRS and/or multi-vendor.
• Understanding of layer 3 messages for 4G and 5G.
• Able to perform event analysis and address accessibility, retainability and HO success rate issues Design.
• Extensive experience in planning tools such as Planet EV and Atoll.
• Detailed understanding of the link budget.
• Detailed understanding of inputs required, and how to create a new project in a planning tool, tilt/azimuth optimization, proposing new site locations etc.
• Have used the ACP (Automatic Cell Planning) tool.
• Able to make recommendations to improve a network design (cell plan).
• Detailed understanding of Monte Carlos Analysis.
• Able to perform model tuning Identify add-on sales opportunities Tuning.
• Able to make recommendations in parameter changes, feature activations on drive test data to improve the system performance.
• Detailed understanding of optimization tools such as TEMS investigation, Actix, Agilent and R&S.
• Experience in tuning a loaded network, and understand the difference between artificial and real traffic loading.
• Detailed understanding of Layer 3 messaging.
• Able to collect and analyze drive data and performance statistics, and solve complex issues.
• Knowledge on how IRAT procedures can affects the overall network quality.
• Suggests improvements to tools.
• Understand the impact of adding additional carrier(s) on the network including 5G Optimization.
• Has the competence to implement and experiment on RAN features relative to traffic analysis.
• Understands the relationship between Handovers and Network Capacity, and how to optimize both.
• Detailed knowledge of the Ericsson ENM, and how to operate the optimization tools.
• Detailed knowledge of KPIs and able to make recommendations to improve them.
• Understand how enhance uplink tuning is performed.
• Detailed understanding and experience in LTE/5G optimization

Additional skills:

• Proficient with MS Office
• Flexibility of extensive travel within the US
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to operate with high degree of independence, while managing project and customer expectations
• Ability to coordinate activities with various Ericsson departments, divisions and companies
• Ability to identify and interpret customer requirements, and develop plans to address them

Benefits (employee contribution):

• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Flexible spending accounts
• Life insurance
• Retirement plan

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.