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Viberoptix Ltd is an exciting new telecommunications company incorporated January 2020. We deliver frontline services to fibre network providers across the UK and Ireland.

We are searching for an IT and Software Development Manager to join our Design Department.

You will work in a friendly and progressive environment with opportunities for personal and professional development.

The Role:

The successful candidate has a strong experience of delivering successful projects and will manage a team of GIS Developer and GIS Network Analyst, and will be responsible for leading the maintenance, solution design and expansion of the network, maintaining GIS software programs in accordance with the needs of the organizations and/or clients.

You will be reporting to the Senior Design Manager.

Job Responsibilities:

• You will be responsible for the day-to-day productivity of the team, managing work volumes and priorities in line with business requirements.
• Ensuring progress reported consistently through daily reporting of activities
• Identifying performance and training gaps and managing personal development of each member of the team.
• Ensuring that KPIs are being controlled and achieved.
• Providing the updates regarding project status.
• Driving timescales and quality improvement
• Overseeing planning development to achieve program
• Manage project demand and resources involved with all activities.
• Delegating work and projects across the team, and re-assigning resources and priorities according to the business needs.
• Provide technical expertise on all aspects of the software and hardware development
• Supporting and mentoring team members
• Working closely to the GIS team and the Design process team to develop new procedures and tools in line with a delivery-oriented approach
• Working with ArcGIS Enterprise daily
• Be an authority on the existing Network, acting as final point of call for fault escalation.
• Network solution design, maintenance, and optimisation.
• Ensure network availability is kept above the SLA thresholds.
• Assess, maintain, and enhance network performance and security.
• Proactive response to alarms and monitor the network status.
• Create technical documentation starting from network designs, troubleshooting manual and procedures to user guides.
• Work with all the key stakeholders to ensure project tasks are completed efficiently and effectively.
• Carry out migration/maintenance tasks as required by the business.
• Create testing methodologies and ensure rigorous testing is carried out against each solution.
• Support junior members of the team with the technical queries.
• Responsible for GIS Analysis, GIS Modelling, Data Integration & Conversion, Geocoding, and Geomatics.
• Develop web mapping applications and geo-processing tools to support GIS

 Experience Requirements:

• programming languages such as Python, SQL, C++, and/or Java to write code and automate basic GIS processes
• Basic GIS architecture (desktop and web): Understand the architecture of GIS and the method of communication between the different parts of GIS.
• Web Services knowledge and experience
• Ability to understand data models and structure
• Good working knowledge of Python or R
• Experience with interfacing API and Web Services
• Knowledge and experience of ArcGIS, QGis and PostGIS
• Experience with PON based infrastructure
• Network solution design, migration, and implementation experience.
• Ability to design data models and Structured Query Language (SQL) knowledge
• Data conversion: The ability to convert data from either older sources (digitization) or from multiple sources to either a common format or common schema. It is extremely useful to be able to work with data coming from GPS and performing data corrections as needed

Skills Requirements:

• Strong leadership skills and ability to set a good example to others
• Mix of technical and person management skills.
• Good Reporting and presentation skills
• Aptitude in math and problem-solving
• Ability to engage with colleagues and customers proactively and professionally to agree commitments and ensure that clients’ needs, and end users’ needs are satisfied.
• Spatial Data, Algorithms and workflow understanding
• Planning and forecasting skills
• Teamwork skills
• Attention to details
• Analytics skills
• Creativity
• Logical approach to problem solving
• Time management