NCOS Demand Management Engineer

Job Description Job Purpose The global Information Technology landscape is evolving rapidly, driven by the explosion of data and the increasing demand for digital technologies and services. IT must enable businesses to react, evolve, and succeed at an unprecedented pace.  To address these challenges, IT has established a hub model in Singapore, Rahway, NJ, Prague, & Hyderabad, enabling a follow-the-sun operational model that leverages networked teams to better support our business and mission of improving patients’ lives.

This agile approach fosters cross-regional collaboration across our hubs. NCOS seeks a candidate for the Demand Management & Consulting team to assist in the prioritization, evaluation, and recommendations of incoming Network Services-related requests. The selected candidate will serve as an entry point for demand (requests) from various stakeholders, acting as a technical specialist in IT Network, Collaboration and Observability Services.

The candidate will perform the initial evaluation of incoming requests to NCOS, organize engagement of respective Network Services product team(s) to tease out detailed demand evaluation and estimates with stakeholders' input, and consult on designing and implementing network infrastructure solutions within Network Services, utilizing classic IT and agile IT to the Dev Sec Ops  model. NCOS also encompasses our Unified Collaboration tools (web conferencing, online meetings tools), therefore, experience in both the IT data network stack and web conferencing tools is desired.

Roles and Responsibilities The Demand Management & Compliance group within Network Services is the primary liaison between our business and site-specific teams and the overall Network, Collaboration, and Observability Servers product lines.  This position focuses on intake and mapping of defined solutions engineered by our product teams to deliver effective systems.
Second, the position will need to recognize emerging needs and either work with our product teams to drive a new system adoption or collaborate on new ways to engineer existing platforms to meet business demand.
Technical point of entry for incoming demand from stakeholders (e.g., any site, business area, or other IT organization) o   Manufacturing plants, facility requests, any other business requirements   Initial evaluation of incoming requests, approach the respective product team, and orchestrate engagement into a detailed demand evaluation together with requestors   You will help develop a view of incoming Network and Unified Collaboration requests, determine the importance of incoming requests relative to existing work within the network stack and within the network product teams and make recommendations as to the prioritization.

Where the requests are you’ll work with Orchestration to prioritize and determine possible funding sources.
You will be a respected go-to individual where demand from within a respective region is primarily channeled to (through Network technology, technical acumen, and good communication skills)
** Qualifications,

Skills & Experience:

***** We are seeking professionals with the following qualifications, skills and experience:**
* ** Education level:
** Bachelor’s degree or relevant job experience  Degree preferred in or relevant experience in Computer Science, Computer Science Engineering, or IT Infrastructure.  
** Experience/Technical

Skills:

** 2-4 years in providing technical operation support and service delivery in IT Data Network and/or Unified Communication areas
* Familiarity with IT Data Networking concepts, including Routing & Switching and Unified Communications (e.g., Arista, Cisco, Palo Alto, Teams, Zoom).
* CCNA or CCNP certification preferred or other major certification preferred (cloud and data center certifications are a plus)   Participation in project management of medium or large IT projects   Good knowledge of IT governance processes
* Knowledge of IT governance processes and Agile methodologies is beneficial.
Ability to create positive relationships at all levels across different groups & teams   Ability to review priorities and adjust them quickly as business…