What you'll do:
You will work in a team of Network Planners, Developers and Data Scientists to support the development of modelling and analytics capabilities for planning Sky’s Mobile and Voice network infrastructure and to drive the network strategy.
This is a highly dynamic role that will allow you to grow multidisciplinary skills in the Data Science, Network Modelling and Cloud Development domains.
Your main responsibilities will be:
Data Engineering and Analysis
Ingest and process network and commercial data
Create regular and ad hoc reports
Communicate requirements to the software team
Network Modelling
Identify network capacity limits and network metrics
Create capacity and economic network models
Generate capacity and budget forecasts
Network Analytics
Apply data science methodologies to analyse and improve network performance and cost efficiency
Develop Insights to support commercial objectives and present analysis/plans to relevant stakeholders up to UK CTO
What you'll bring:
You will have good knowledge and experience (gained in the industry) in the data science area. Alternatively, you have industry network experience combined with good exposure to data analytics.
Essential requirements:
BSc in Maths, Statistics, Data Science (or similar)
Proven experience with managing and analysing time series data
Hands on programming skills in Python and SQL
Familiarity with Agile methodologies
Excellent presentation skills
Stakeholder management experience
Desirable requirements
PhD in Computer Science or similar
Experience capacity panning virtual appliances
Familiarity with large packet core and mobile networks
Working experience deploying solutions on public cloud
Team Overview:
The Network Software and Data Science team, part of Sky’s Engineering Division, takes a data-driven approach towards meeting network planning goals, including capacity planning, performance planning and network economics. We develop insights which reinforce planning decisions and support wider commercial objectives.