Senior Technical Specialist

Optus is an Australian telecommunications company, delivering more than 11 million services to our customers every day across mobile, broadband and digital solutions.

We believe in the strength of a vibrant, diverse and inclusive workforce where backgrounds, perspectives and life experiences of our people help us innovate and create strong connections with our customers.

The Senior Technical Specialist, Access Solutions & Architecture provides technical leadership for RAN solutions within the Access Networks team, supporting the AD and broader strategic initiatives. As a mobile networks SME across 3G, 4G, and 5G with multi‑vendor experience (Huawei, Ericsson, Nokia), this role leads key technical, architectural, and lifecycle activities for the Optus Radio Access Network.

The day to day

• Stay current with RAN design standards, emerging technologies and industry trends, continuously building capability across new tools and analysis techniques.
• Leading the development of architectural blueprints for new networks and enhancements to production networks.
• Collaborating with business stakeholders, including project managers, and technical teams to determine business and technical requirements and constraints for RAN software, hardware, features and solutions.
• Formulating strategies and plans for emerging technologies (including Neutral Host, 6G, satellite access solutions) and recommending selected technologies.
• Support the design and documentation of end-to-end solutions for specific project or initiatives with senior solution architects.
• Translating business requirements into solution design through the creation of blueprints, diagrams, and technical specifications.
• Translates customer and/or business requirements into cost effective technical, functional, and operational design specifications and work with the solutions through into post go-live.
• Ensuring solutions conform to the strategic domain roadmap and adhere to the standards set by the Solution architects and Enterprise architects.
• Perform consultancy and advise of solution options for Business problems.
• Understand solution standards, guidelines, policies and best practice for technology, application and data within the domain.
• Development & Maintenance of RAN Design guidelines, documentation & bulletins.
• Influencing RAN vendors on hardware, antenna systems, software features & parameters and evaluation of new RAN products & solutions.
• Lifecycle management of legacy networks 3G decom and Huawei swap modernisation.
• Support for RAN sharing eJV, MOCN design, deployment & expansion.
• Involvement in AOP and 3–5 year planning cycles, Quality and Security Audits as required.

Why you are our next Senior Technical Specialist, Access Solutions and Architecture

• Extensive experience in telecommunications, with strong hands‑on expertise in mobile networks RAN technology with major vendors (Ericsson and Nokia).
• RAN Solution and platform architecture and technical knowledge (3G/UMTS, 4G/LTE, 5G/NR NSA/SA, FDD & TDD).
• Good understanding of mobile base station design including antennas, MHA's combiners, filters, feeders, RRU, AAU, IPAA Solutions, baseband, backhaul, transport
• Experience with Macro, small cell and IBC site design and deployment.
• Skills with MOCN, MORAN, ORAN, CRAN, VRAN.
• Systems and Technology Integration including TCP/IP and networking protocols.
• Familiarity with systems Optus uses eg: MNIS, NDSS, Helix, RFNSA, ACMA databases.
• Awareness of EME and ACMA regulatory requirements and Optus processes.
• IT Standard, procedures and policies, Quality systems. Power BI Excel SQL reporting & analysis. 

What’s in it for you?

• Competitive remuneration and employee discounts. Make life easier (and more affordable) with $80 monthly credit and 25% off Optus products and unique shopping discounts with our retail partners.
• Competitive leave policies, including additional 'Connected’ days to focus on culture, family, health, community, or whatever’s important to you.
• We support growing families with inclusive, carer-neutral paid Parental Leave of up to 16 weeks.
• Direct your own development and build future-ready skills with Optus U’s industry-focused micro-credentials, developed with La Trobe and Macquarie Universities.
• Build meaningful connections through employee-led networks and diversity initiatives including Culture Connect, Elevate Women, Disability Network and Express Yourself (LGBTQIA+).
• Put your wellbeing first with free access to counselling and support services, 24/7 — in-person, by phone, SMS, or video.

At Optus, we are strengthened by others and that means valuing diversity and saying ‘yes’ to embracing individual differences. We are committed to ensuring that our application process provides an equal employment opportunity to all job seekers, including individuals from diverse gender, cultural and linguistic backgrounds, individuals with a disability, individuals identifying as being part of the LGBTQIA+ community, individuals who may have served in the armed forces or who identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander. We also want to do our best to make our recruitment process inclusive. If you require any adjustments or accessibility support to participate fairly and equitably in the recruitment process, please email AccessibleRecruitment@optus.com.au or call 1800 309 170. We're here to help.

For more information on Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging at Optus, please visit https://www.optus.com.au/about/inclusion-diversity