Job Description
This hybrid role offers a great balance of home and office working. You’ll join your colleagues in your local office at least 2 days a week.
As the UK’s largest fibre-only network, and its only proven wholesale challenger, we’re busy setting new standards for what digital infrastructure can and should be.
Designed from scratch for the internet, our network is greener, more reliable and ready for the future. The products we provide over it not only lead the market on speed, value and service, they help businesses to innovate, provide entire communities with a better foundation for their digital lives and support economic growth, locally and nationally.
What does that mean for you? The opportunity to make internet connections (and daily life) a whole lot better, for a lot of people!
Joining us as a Passive Integration Architect
As a Passive Integration Architect you will define and lead the strategy for the integration of any acquired Passive network into CityFibre’s existing infrastructure looking at network topologies, capacity, methods and materials to deliver a unified and optimised fibre network.
You’ll receive a salary, commission, a car allowance, a performance related bonus, and a range of benefits to support you across your financial, physical and mental wellbeing.
This is some of what you can expect to be doing:
- Develop and manage the passive network integration strategy, aligning with strategic objectives and network evolution roadmap
- Conduct detailed assessments of acquired network assets, identifying key variances and integration challenges
- Design end-to-end passive network integration solutions, focusing on compatibility, capacity optimisation, and scalability
- Implement strategies for harmonising materials and standards, ensuring consistency, quality, and efficient operations
What you’ll bring to the role
The Passive Integration Architect will be the subject matter expert in passive network integration with the purpose of delivering a unified and optimised fibre network. You’ll also have:
- Extensive experience in Passive Fibre Optic Network Architecture and Design, focusing on passive plant and various topologies and technologies
- Proficient in fibre network testing, troubleshooting, performance optimisation, and producing clear technical documentation and architectural diagrams
- Experienced in integrating networks from acquired operators, large-scale network consolidation projects, and familiar with various vendor solutions and technologies
- Knowledgeable in network inventory management, GIS systems, regulatory compliance, and cost modelling for economic analysis of networks
Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging
We’re a Times Top 50 Employer for Gender Equality. We’re endorsed by WORK180 and we’re a partner of Diversifying. We have pledged our commitment to the Armed Forces Covenant and we’re a Disability Confident Employer. Working together with our Employee Networks, we’re wholly committed to ensuring that our people’s voices are heard, and that everyone feels a sense of belonging and pride to be a part of CityFibre. If you’d like to explore our culture and values, check out The CityFibre Way.
What you can expect from us
We want to offer you all the support you need to thrive inside and outside of work. This means giving you the tools to grow your career with us, as well as a comprehensive benefits package that you can adapt to your lifestyle. This includes 25 days annual leave, a day off on your birthday, a day off to support a charity or organisation of choice, a range of wellbeing and savings initiatives including private medical insurance, and supportive family friendly and menopause policies.
Additional Information
We want to create a sense of belonging for everyone. We celebrate our differences and work to ensure everyone has the best chance to succeed, starting with our recruitment process. No matter your background, family or carer status, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, gender, or gender identity, we welcome your application. If you need any support or reasonable adjustments throughout the application process, please email us at [email protected]. We want to help!
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What We Do
At CityFibre, we’re building a new, intelligent, open-access fibre network, purpose built for the data age. We’re upgrading communities across the country, giving people a better foundation for their digital lives, enabling businesses to innovate, and helping to strengthen the UK economy.
Our national networks are expanding rapidly, and we are already the network of choice for major Internet Service Providers and mobile operators including TalkTalk, Three, Vodafone and Zen, as well as dozens of exciting smaller providers.
Using our networks, our customers can provide theirs, be they homes, businesses, schools, or hospitals with broadband, Ethernet and mobile connections so quick and reliable, you can practically take them for granted.
With almost two million premises already passed, our fully financed rollout programme is on track to serve a third of the UK. That’s around 8m homes, 800k businesses, 400k local authority sites and 250k 5G access points that will soon have access to the UK’s finest digital infrastructure
